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It should produce a schematic as one of its output products.. maybe use graphviz, see:

https://observablehq.com/@nturley/netlistsvg-how-to-draw-a-b...

HDL tools all do this.



NetlistSVG is great yeah. We had a play with it. We had a visualizer in the compiler early on in the compiler implemented with JointJS. But it was a pain to maintain and difficult to get value out of.

I'm sure we will have some flavor of a visualizer in the compiler one day. But outputting a "normal" schematic doesn't seem like it's the right approach. We might actually end up with a bunch of different ways to "visualize" your circuit, each one optimized for a specific thing you are trying to achieve.




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