Links

This page contains every useful, cool, funny, wacky, and whatever other adjective you can think of link I can muster.

Listed in no particular order, and hopefully pseudo-organized.

This is how the internet was meant to be used before search engines gave up the motto "Don't be evil" :)

• Wavedrom - The best waveform drawing tool out there
• FPGA Designs with Verilog - A good reference on Verilog and System Verilog synthesizable code
• Yosys HQ - The Yosys team develops a ton of great RTL tools (for free!). Yosys for synthesis, SymbiYosys for formal proofs, MCY for formal coverage, CXXRTL which is shaping up to be a Verilator competitor
• FOSSI Foundation - The open silicon foundation. They sponsor a bunch of great open source silicon and related tooling
• Open Cores - A list of open source RTL cores. The site itself is pretty outdated and most folks just mirror to GitHub now. Still there's some great info here
• Chips4Makers - Custom PDK blocks and open source RTL to GDSII flows. At one point he was talking about doing TSMC shuttles for projects and it seemed interesting
• TerosHDL - A VSCode extension that gives some nice RTL development features. I hate Microsoft and refuse to use VSCode, but it's a great little package
• Verible - An open-source System Verilog parser, linter (format linting only), and formatter
• RgGen - A RTL register generator that will generate RTL, software headers, and documentation for your design written in Ruby
• The 10 RTL Commandments - 10 Rules to follow to make RTL that works
• Asic World - A great resource for RTL and RTL verification. Verilog, System Verilog, SystemC, VHDL, and much more
• Jim Moran's FPGA Course - My professor from Uni's FPGA site. Best professor I've had. His classes got me into semiconductors
• Veripool - Wilson Snyder runs Veripool. He designed Verilator, Verilog mode for Emacs, and more. You gotta check out his tools
• Sunburst Designs - Cliff Cummings consultancy. One of the best sources out there on digital design and verification. Best white pages ever
• Symbolator - A great tool to parse your RTL and draw a block diagram. I use this often
• The Amp Hour - An electronics podcast hosted by Chris Gammel and Dave Jones. Awesome guests on here and I learn a ton. Great to listen to a bunch of nerds like myself :)
• Phil's Lab - Phil has some of the best tutorials on PCB design out there (both paid and free). Also some great guides on signal processing and software
• Nandland - Russel has one of the best sites out there on Verilog and VHDL for FPGAs. His development board is great too!
• ZipCPU - Dan's site is my go-to source for Verilator and SymbiYosys tutorials. Best guides on formal verification out there. His RTL design tutorials are top notch too
• Voltage Divide - An interesting page with some FPGA know how
• FPGA Design dot IO - A nice site with some RTL and FPGA design bits

• Emacs - The best operating system ever, it only lacks an editor :) Just add Vim mode to it and it becomes the best editor too!
• Spacemacs - A pre-bundled Emacs configuration that turns it into a modern IDE, and will set up Vim mode for everything. The site was made with this in combination with base Emacs :)
• Org Mode - The life changing Emacs feature. This website was made in org mode. All my notes are in org mode. I schedule and track all my work and notes in here. Trust me. Check it out
• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces - A free OS textbook hosted online. Fairly comprehensive and a good reference
• Shichao's Notes - A great reference for Unix info and TCP info
• Unix Sheikh - Some more systemd hatred. Some Linux/BSD post, rants, and some good reading

• Spyware Watchdog - A great report on what software is glowing bright as the sun. Also lots of (justified) hatred for cloud flare and the fact it's probably a service for the Glowies and Technocrats
• Xilinx 7 Series Encryption Crack - Because breaking stuff is fun :)

• Ciphers By Ritter - Awesome resource on encryption, ciphers, and strangely audio amps too
• Douglass Jones - A professor from the University of Iowa. Great tutorials on Binary arithmetic (it's complicated when you care about precision & division folks!)

• Pineapple One - A custom RISC-V CPU made from discreet logic chips and a bunch of stacked PCBs. Tis' a thing of beauty
• Kden Live - An open source video editor tool that's straightforward and powerful
• OBS - The open broadcast tool. Used for streaming and recording video alike

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