A VHDL Interface for Altera Design Files

Altera Erasable Programmable Logic Devices EPLDs are chips that can be custom designed. These EPLDs are individually described by their Altera Design Files ADFs. The language structure of ADFs is not directly supported by the Very High Speed Integrated Circuit VHSIC Hardware Description Language VHDL. VHDL is a software language that was selected as the IEEE standard for a hardware description language. This thesis describes a program that is capable of transforming an ADF into a VHDL entity declaration and entity structural architecture. The scope of ADFs the program transforms is limited to ADFs that contained only Altera primitives and are not of the State Machine Format. The transformation program was developed on a Personal Computer PC and the programming language used was Turbo C by Borland. rh