Development of a control path VHDL code generator for hardware development

Abstract

The Very High-Speed Integration Circuit HDL (VHDL) is widely used to implement digital electronic systems. The VHDL language can be difficult to learn, so it is necessary to simplify and speed up the process of implementing digital electronic components through a hardware description with a minimal understanding of the VHDL language. This paper entails the design and development of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) capable of generating VHDL code for ControlPaths using specified state transition tables and state diagrams. This application was created using the Matrix Laboratory (MATLAB). Application Builder as the development platform. After development, the system went through unit testing and integration testing, after which acceptance testing was carried out. The results of the acceptance tests showed that the software is very effective in quickly generating VHDL code for ControlPaths.