Altera Quartus II VHDL code compilation process

[ssylee]

When a particular VHDL project is compiled in Altera Quartus II, is
the code converted to digital logic and mapped the gates using look-up
tables?

 

[Mike Treseler]

ssylee wrote:

When a particular VHDL project is compiled in Altera Quartus II, is
the code converted to digital logic and mapped the gates using look-up
tables?

Synthesis converts well-formed code into a netlist
of gates (LUTs or MUXes) and flops that simulates the
same as the code.

For example, this code:
http://mysite.verizon.net/miketreseler/count_enable.vhd
becomes a logical netlist like this,
http://mysite.verizon.net/miketreseler/count_enable.pdf
and then a primitive netlist like this:
http://mysite.verizon.net/miketreseler/count_enable_map.pdf

-- Mike Treseler