METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GRAPHICALLY PRESENTING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN

Briefly, the present invention analyzes high-level IC description language code, such as VHDL and Verilog, of an integrated circuit (IC) design and generates graphical representations of the IC design based on the code analyzed. The graphical representations can include one or more of the following: 1) a block diagram of functional blocks; 2) a state diagram of a state machine; and 3) a flow chart of an operation al flow of the IC. Graphical representations provide more understandable representations of circuits described by the high-level IC description language code than the code itself.