Hardware Intelligence co-founders Athreya Anand and Rishov Sarkar unveil WaveZip, a tool for storing waveforms from engineering simulations. They say it lets engineers record every simulation run and retain its resulting waveforms instead of rerunning simulations after failures. The founders say WaveZip captures lossless waveforms with less than 10% overhead and creates files up to 500 times smaller.
WaveZip introduces a compressed waveform format for capturing and storing waveforms in lossless files that it says are up to 500 times smaller. It says decompression takes seconds. The announcement targets chip companies, claiming the format can reduce waveform storage by 100 times and eliminate simulation reruns by enabling engineers to record every run.
Wave launches a terminal-native waveform debugger with a built-in verification agent for hardware simulation workflows. Users can ask why a signal broke, watch the agent trace the root cause, and see the fix verified against their simulation. The tool runs locally and opens waveform dumps before Verdi completes its license check.
