Program for drawing VHDL block diagrams?

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bkritzer picture bkritzer · Jul 21, 2009 · Viewed 12.9k times · Source

Is there any free program out there that can parse a collection of VHDL files and build a block diagram from them?

I'm looking more for a program that will build a block diagram image to go along with the documentation for the hierarchy, similar to the way javadoc builds a class diagram after parsing the documentation for a series of classes.

Answer

Yann Ramin picture Yann Ramin · Jul 21, 2009

Altera's Quartus can compile VHDL and provide you with the top-level schematic blocks, representing the VHDL signals. Ditto with Xilinx ISE. Its not open source software, but it is free to download and use.

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