Debug your RTL without the headache.

Silence the noise.

Large traces are full of noise — invalid or disabled signals, duplicates. Riptide was designed to maximize clarity and contrast. The viewer clearly distinguishes adjacent signals, renders unknown and high impedance values as bold cross hatches, and mutes disabled values so you can focus on what matters.

• Clock native gridThe timeline and grid are clock synchronized by default.
• Typed bus & enum renderingBold, anti-aliased text rendering for primitives and enums.
• X / Z hatchingUnknown and high-impedance values stand out on sight.
• Mute disabled signalsSignals with nothing to say fade into the background.

Ask your waveform a question.

A trace shouldn't just sit there. Compose derived signals, keep a live watch on what matters, and let Riptide surface the glitches, failed asserts, and look-alike events you'd otherwise scroll right past.

One interface for every simulator.

In addition to recorded waveforms, Riptide can connect directly to your simulator to drive live simulation. It leans on Edalize to speak TCL to whatever backend you run, so you work from one clean, unified surface instead of wrestling a different clunky UI for every tool. Same commands, any simulator under the hood.

• Uniform control surfacerun · step · restart · poke — identical across backends.
• Powered by EdalizeBattle-tested TCL abstraction across the EDA tool zoo.
• No vendor lock-inSwap the simulator under your testbench, keep your flow.

Organize signals logically.

Group a handshake, bus, or valid/data pair together and visualize, move, or collapse them together. Riptide can also auto-detect and assign colors to groups from the signal hierarchy, reducing manual effort.

• Logical groupsGroup related signals, color them, and collapse them together.
• Automatic group detectionRiptide can use the signal hierarchy and naming patterns to auto-detect groups, saving you time.