A distributed VHDL compiler and simulator accessible from the web

During the previous years, web based applications have gained prominence as an effective paradigm for an increase in worker´s office productivity. Occasionally, companies develop the web versions of their commercial products and provide them either free or under a billing plan. Even though we live in the web revolution (or webolution), the electronic design automation tools are absent from this landscape. In this paper, we present the design and development of a web based VHDL compiler and simulator, that is freely available to every Internet user, even from a mobile phone or a tablet. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first non-commercial VHDL compiler and simulator accessible from the Internet, and downloaded as open source software, paving the road towards the web based EDA development.