# PulseView

> Examine captured logic and analog waveforms with sigrok's graphical frontend. Protocol decoders and decoder stacking expose bus messages and higher-level device operations, making hardware communication traces useful for firmware and interoperability investigations.

- Type: Tool
- Targets: Firmware · Protocol
- Category: Firmware tools
- Relationship: Foundation tool
- Sources reviewed: 2026-10-16
- Added to the catalog: 2026-10-16
- Original resource: <https://github.com/sigrokproject/pulseview>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/sigrokproject/pulseview/blob/af02198741b4e57c9f9b796bd5e6c0f2ae9f2f2b/README>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pulseview/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pulseview/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/pulseview/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Supply a supported recorded trace, or use a compatible logic analyzer/oscilloscope with the needed device access. Device support is narrower than the whole sigrok suite; PulseView is not the multimeter frontend.
- Protocol decoding requires libsigrokdecode and operates on logic signals; analog captures need suitable conversion. The reviewed source accepts Qt 5.3+ or Qt 6.2+, libsigrokcxx 0.5.2+ and libsigrokdecode 0.5.2+.
- GPL-3.0-or-later. GitHub is the official mirror. Development snapshots and packaged releases may differ.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/sigrokproject/pulseview/blob/af02198741b4e57c9f9b796bd5e6c0f2ae9f2f2b/README>
2. <https://github.com/sigrokproject/pulseview/blob/af02198741b4e57c9f9b796bd5e6c0f2ae9f2f2b/CMakeLists.txt>
3. <https://sigrok.org/wiki/PulseView>
4. <https://sigrok.org/doc/pulseview/unstable/manual.html>
5. <https://sigrok.org/wiki/Protocol_decoders>

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