@inproceedings{8950700af3fc45989a9ecd5af762dbb4,
title = "A platform for visualizing digital circuit synthesis with VHDL",
abstract = "This paper presents the VISUAL-VHDL platform for visualizing digital circuit synthesis based on the hardware description language VHDL. VISUAL-VHDL enables students to enter VHDL code and control an 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 diagrams.",
keywords = "Animation, Digital circuit synthesis, VHDL, Visualization",
author = "Abdulhadi Shoufan and Zheng Lu and Guido R{\"o}{\ss}ling",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1145/1822090.1822173",
language = "British English",
isbn = "9781605588209",
series = "ITiCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education",
pages = "294--298",
booktitle = "ITiCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education",
note = "15th Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Conference, ITiCSE 2010 ; Conference date: 26-06-2010 Through 30-06-2010",
}