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They couldn't put in a sentence stating what this actually does?



I’d imagine the target audience for this consists entirely of people who already know what Verilog and Factorio are. And if you’re part of that intersection then it’s instantly obvious what it does from the title alone.


I'm no expert on the topic, but it looks like a protocol for interpreting hardware logic into a Factorio game board.


They managed to describe fully what it does in the project name and post title.

Unless you want an explanation of what verilog and factorio are, but then that sounds like it's another question from "what this project does".


Verilog is a hardware description language. So for example you could use it to program your FPGA (FPGA is a digital circuit you program from scratch). Factorio is an interesting video game where you basically use limited resources to construct factories that build different objects, the success depending on how well you design and optimize your factories.


The repository states in it's readme:

> This project will compile verilog (a hardware description language) into factorio blueprints.




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