On: Tiny Tapeout VGA Playground

[KallDrexx]

This is awesome, and I really want to learn enough verilog to do a tiny tape out VGA chip design.

But man, 8bitworkshop really burned me out on trying to do verilog in a web IDE, and trying to set up verilator properly for local simulation with a proper IDE became such a hassle.

Ended up moving away from verilog for the moment back to normal software projects. I really want to get back in, but I really don't want to spend my limited coding time fighting IDEs and tooling.

[Brusco_RF → KallDrexx]

Welcome to Hardware Design! The open-source toolchains come from hell. The closed-source options are supremely expensive and not much better

They don't call it EasyWare

[15155 → KallDrexx]

Try SpinalHDL or Chisel and never look back.

[KallDrexx → 15155]

I was worrying about debuggability if I started with a higher level Verilog transpiler and didn't have a good foundation of Verilog experience.

But maybe I should just do it.

[bgnn → KallDrexx]

a cheap FPGA kit is the best way to start learning IMHO.

Xilinx (now AMD) and Altera (now Intel) free tools are quite good.