The Git repository of introductory Verilog examples, basics-graphics-music, uses Bash scripts for all user operations on Linux and Windows. For Windows users, we recommend using the Bash shell included in Git for Windows application. You can download Git for Windows from either https://git-scm.com/download/win or https://gitforwindows.org. When running the Git for […]
How a chip is designed: the technology, team and jobs – Как проектируется микросхема: технология, команда и работы
On Saturday, August 31, we are going to have an electronic education event in Los Angeles hosted by the Verilog Meetup club which usually meets in Silicon Valley. We welcome people with different expertise levels, from those who are just curious how the industry that produces smartphones and other electronics […]
Maria soldered her first pin and you can do that too!
Maria, an embedded software engineer, came to our Verilog Meetup at Hacker Dojo last Sunday. Then she stepped into a lab next door and one of the serious solderers asked her if she wanted to try to solder. Maria said yes and soldered the first pin in her life! You […]
Learn to solder in Hacker Dojo, using sound-making devices, with a benefit to Verilog Meetup: a Proposal
In Verilog Meetup, we use digital microphones and audio boards as peripherals for our FPGA boards. Those components come from AliExpress unsoldered, which makes it a good opportunity to teach soldering to beginners. The components are not expensive, just a couple of bucks each, so burning them is not tragic. […]
Can Gowin beat Xilinx and Altera in the educational market?
Gowin Semiconductor is at the Sensors Converge exhibition in Santa Clara today. I went to their booth yesterday and met the team: CEO Jason Zhu, sales, marketing and application engineers. We discussed the topic of the educational boards used for EE classes, such as 6.111 at the Massachusetts Institute of […]
Andrea Guerrieri, an co-author of HLS tools and ARM SoC textbook, gave feedback about Verilog Meetup materials
Today, I met Andrea Guerrieri, a researcher from Switzerland, at the Design Automatic Conference (DAC) in San Francisco. I knew Andrea from work at Imagination Technologies. I also saw that he is one of the authors of an ARM-endorsed textbook, Fundamentals of System-on-Chip Design on Arm Cortex-M Microcontrollers. On DAC, […]
A new platform for FPGA seminars based on Gowin Tang Nano 9K: adding sound, graphics and microarchitecture labs
Gowin has clear advantages over Xilinx in the educational FPGA board market: Gowin boards are several times less expensive, the synthesis speed is several times faster, and the EDA package is two orders of magnitude smaller: we are talking about 1G versus 100G disk space. Of course, Xilinx is still […]
Focus on Microarchitecture
After interviewing a number of recent EE and CS graduates for RTL and DV positions in three companies, I made an observation: there is a very clear gap between what they learn in school and what the industry needs from them. The graduates usually know some Verilog, can write an […]
Bootstrapping Azerbaijan as a new center of ASIC design + Verilog Meetup #6 in Silicon Valley
Last week I was doing a seminar on SystemVerilog, ASIC and FPGA at ADA University in Baku, Azerbaijan. I will replicate the last two sessions of this seminar, on RISC-V CPU simulation and synthesis, at the Verilog Meetups on March 3 and March 10 at Hacker Dojo, Mountain View, California. For this reason I am combining the […]
Self-education and educating others
The first meetups of the Portable SystemVerilog Examples group at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California were a kind of brainstorming sessions. We discussed the electronic industry, the essence of modern chip design, and the challenges of educating new design engineers. Here is the video of the first meetup: Then we moved to […]
Why would a software engineer attend an FPGA hardware meetup at Hacker Dojo?
For the last 30 years digital chip design is not done by schematic entry anymore: hardware engineers write code just like software engineers. The difference is that the code a software engineer writes becomes a chain of CPU instructions stored in memory, while the code a hardware engineer writes in […]
Toward the January meetup on portable SystemVerilog examples in Silicon Valley
The team developing a set of portable SystemVerilog examples decided to organize the first event in Silicon Valley on Sunday, January 14 from 2PM till 5PM at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, CA. If the first event is successful we are going to make it recurrent. You can register for the event on Meetup or LinkedIn. […]
The first Silicon Valley meetup on portable SystemVerilog examples for ASIC and FPGA
Need to start your career or hobby in digital design and verification of silicon chips or reconfigurable hardware? Explore multiple FPGA toolchains and open-source ASIC tools? Design your own RISC-V CPU or ML accelerator? Prepare for an interview in SystemVerilog? Come to our first Silicon Valley meetup on portable SystemVerilog […]