Abstract: A process of automatically translating an extended activity diagram (EAD) into a hardware component graph (HCG).

Abstract: A method to hardware component graph translation process for a high-level programming language, which analyzes codes of a high-level programming language to collect class information and store the collected class information in a class information object, and generates a temporal hardware component graph to obtain corresponding public methods, parameters, return values. The public methods, parameters, return values are linked to a class start node. A method call table is generated according to both one or more in/out edges of a method call node and method information of the class information object. The one or more edges linked to the method call node are changed to a method start node according to the method call table to accordingly represent a respective method call in the codes of the high-level programming language and translate the temporal hardware component graph into a hardware component graph allowable to correspond to hardware components.

Abstract: A process of automatically translating a high level programming language into a hardware description language (HDL), which can use a three-stage translation mechanism to generate the HDL codes corresponding to the functions described by the high level programming language. The first stage translates source codes coded by the high level programming language into an extended activity diagram (EAD). The second stage translates the EAD into a hardware component graph (HCG). The third stage generates the respective signal connections of HDL components according to all edges of the HCG, and outputs an HDL entity and architecture to a file in a string form, thereby completing the entire translation.