Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VL file.
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Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert VL to another file type
To convert VL files to another format, you need Icarus Verilog or other Developer software.
Convert a file to VL
To convert other file formats to the "Hardware Description Source Code" file type, you need software like Icarus Verilog or a similar tool.
About VL files
The .VL file is primarily a source code file written in Verilog, a standardized hardware description language (HDL) used by engineers to design, simulate, and verify electronic circuits and digital logic systems. These files contain plain text code defining the structure and behavior of hardware components. Engineers typically open and compile them using Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software like Icarus Verilog. Beyond hardware design, the .VL extension is heavily fragmented. It is also utilized by vvvv gamma for visual programming documents (stored as XML), by Cognex VisionPro for vision system log files, by the VisionLib SDK for tracker configuration files (stored as JSON), and by legacy software like vanBasco's Karaoke Player for lyrics. The primary disadvantage of .VL files is this extreme fragmentation. Depending on the originating software, the file could be plain text, structured XML, JSON, or a proprietary binary log. Sharing a Verilog hardware design with non-engineers usually results in compatibility errors, as standard text editors lack specialized syntax highlighting, and web browsers cannot natively render or execute the code. Furthermore, proprietary log variants require expensive software to decode. To make the code readable for documentation or sharing, you should convert text-based .VL files to standard formats like TXT, PDF, or HTML. Converting XML or JSON variants to standard text makes editing widely accessible. However, because EDA suites use complex compilation processes, direct conversion of logic code into a visual schematic requires the original software. Standard online converters often fail to process .VL files because they cannot distinguish between a Verilog script and a vision system log.
Convert.Guru analyzes your VL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert VL file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Icarus Verilog or similar software from the "Hardware System Modeling" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to VL, try Icarus Verilog or another comparable tool in the "Hardware System Modeling" category.
The VL Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our VL converter.