WaveDrom

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3473 stars · 419 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

WaveDrom is an open-source digital timing diagram (waveform) rendering engine that converts a textual WaveJSON description into SVG vector graphics using JavaScript and HTML5. It ships as a browser-embeddable library, an online editor, a rendering server, and a CLI tool for generating SVG files.

Use cases

• draw digital timing diagrams from text
• render waveforms in documentation as svg
• generate timing diagram svg from json5 file
• embed waveform diagrams in a webpage
• document signal timing for hardware design
• render waveforms in markdown via a server

When to choose

• you need reproducible, text-based timing diagrams for hardware/IC documentation
• you want to embed waveform diagrams in web pages or markdown files
• you prefer describing diagrams in a compact JSON format rather than drawing them

When to avoid

• you need general-purpose diagramming beyond digital timing waveforms
• you want a GUI-first diagram editor with drag-and-drop
• you need analog or non-digital signal visualization

Facets

library · maturity active

data-visualization cli templating developer-tools documentation hardware web-development browser cli svg waveform timing-diagram wavejson digital-hardware json5 nodejs web-server

Member repositories

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markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="wavedrom/wavedrom")