A Platform for Visualizing Digital Circuit Synthesis with VHDL

This paper presents the VISUAL-VHDL platform fro visualizing digital circuit synthesis based on the hardware description language VHDL. VISUAL-VHDL enables students to enter VHDL code and control and animation process, which shows step-by-step how the different language constructs are treated to synthesize a complete digital circuit. It also enables the visualization of the Quine-McCluskey algorithm, which is embedded in our tool to optimize the circuit resulting from synthesizing the VHDL code. The drag and drop schematic editor for entering and parameterizing digital circuits can be used by educators and students to effectively produce circuit diagram