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doboprobodyne<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jalefkowit</span></a></span> </p><p>It's an interesting point you highlight because I've never thought of things through that paradigm. Now that I see it, I realise I'm hoping to transition to <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/openBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openBSD</span></a> because I believe of mainstream operating systems, it probably has the best <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/DX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DX</span></a>.</p><p>In this particular case, I believe that the developers exploit that in order to optimise for what might be called <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> which impresses me.</p><p>I realise it's probably an outlier in this regard!</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/developerExperience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>developerExperience</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/quality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quality</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/systemArchitecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systemArchitecture</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybernetics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/complexSystemsTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>complexSystemsTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/qualityAssurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qualityAssurance</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Deming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deming</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Shuart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shuart</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coding</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/softwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>softwareEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/abstraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abstraction</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/electricalEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electricalEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/HDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HDL</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VHDL</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/theresNoSuchThingAsSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theresNoSuchThingAsSoftware</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Can We Replace a Program Counter with a Linear-Feedback Shift Register? Yes We Can! - Today we heard from [Richard James Howe] about his new CPU. This new 16-bit CPU is... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/can-we-replace-a-program-counter-with-a-linear-feedback-shift-register-yes-we-can/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/05/31/can-we</span><span class="invisible">-replace-a-program-counter-with-a-linear-feedback-shift-register-yes-we-can/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/forth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forth</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fpga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fpga</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vhdl</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/cpu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cpu</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vm</span></a></p>
Cyber-Fox 🏴‍☠️🐙<p>Hello,</p><p>Do you know where I can found a documentation about Tcl and VHDL in Info format&nbsp;? (Or in a format I can convert to Info)</p><p><a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VHDL</span></a> <br><a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Tcl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tcl</span></a> <br><a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Documentation</span></a></p>
IT News<p>The Spade Hardware Description Language - Spade is an open-source hardware description language (HDL) developed at Linköping... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/04/13/the-spade-hardware-description-language/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/04/13/the-sp</span><span class="invisible">ade-hardware-description-language/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hardwaredescriptionlanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hardwaredescriptionlanguage</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/spadelanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spadelanguage</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hardware</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/verilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>verilog</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fpga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fpga</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/asic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asic</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vhdl</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hdl</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Did You Know YoSys Knows VHDL Too? - We’ve been fans of the Yosys / Nextpnr open-source FPGA toolchain for a long while... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/12/04/did-you-know-yosys-knows-vhdl-too/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/12/04/did-yo</span><span class="invisible">u-know-yosys-knows-vhdl-too/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/verilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>verilog</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/yosys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yosys</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fpga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fpga</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vhdl</span></a></p>
Alfred M. Szmidt<p>Calling all <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HDL</span></a> hackers! I need help in putting the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CADR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CADR</span></a> onto a FPGA board. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VHDL</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Verilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Verilog</span></a>, does not matter much. Who is up for a fun challange? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LispMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LispMachine</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Making USB Blaster Clones Work For Linux - The last time we checked in with [Downtown Doug Brown], he had some cheap Altera U... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/07/29/making-usb-blaster-clones-work-for-linux/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/07/29/making</span><span class="invisible">-usb-blaster-clones-work-for-linux/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/alterablaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alterablaster</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fpga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fpga</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/cpld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cpld</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vhdl</span></a></p>
Paul Förster :verified_blue:<p>There seems to be an early stage of a <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a> <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/VIC20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VIC20</span></a> core for the <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/MEGA65" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MEGA65</span></a>. I don’t know how to build a .cor file from this repository. Can someone please provide some insight on how this works?</p><p>I’m primarily on a <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a>, but <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> would be fine too.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/MJoergen/VIC20MEGA65" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/MJoergen/VIC20MEGA6</span><span class="invisible">5</span></a></p><p><a href="https://swiss.social/tags/FPGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FPGA</span></a> <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VHDL</span></a></p>
MPI for Gravitational Physics<p>📢 Job opportunity 📢</p><p>Postdoc in our “Precision Interferometry and Fundamental Interactions” department at the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/@mpi_grav" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mpi_grav</span></a></span> in Hannover</p><p>Help develop a hardware-in-the-loop LISA testbed to test the entire data analysis pipeline from photons to source parameters. We look for candidates with a strong interest in working with FPGAs and DSPs. Familiarity with VHDL programming is also a plus.</p><p>ℹ️ <a href="https://www.aei.mpg.de/971687/postdoc-precision-interferometry-and-fundamental-interactions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aei.mpg.de/971687/postdoc-prec</span><span class="invisible">ision-interferometry-and-fundamental-interactions</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/tags/Postdoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postdoc</span></a> <a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/tags/FPGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FPGA</span></a> <a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/tags/DSP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DSP</span></a> <a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VHDL</span></a> <a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/tags/LISAMission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LISAMission</span></a> <a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/tags/Job" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Job</span></a> <a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/tags/Hannover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hannover</span></a></p>
Jakub Cabal<p>Implementing HDL verification using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UVM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UVM</span></a> is annoying and tedious. So <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cocotb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cocotb</span></a> seems to be the right choice. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FPGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FPGA</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/systemverilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systemverilog</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VHDL</span></a></p>
Jakub Cabal<p>My project spi-fpga is available on Github for many years and is gradually collecting stars. It is just a simple <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SPI</span></a> controller for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FPGAs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FPGAs</span></a> written in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VHDL</span></a>, so I didn't expect 156 stars. <a href="https://github.com/jakubcabal/spi-fpga" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/jakubcabal/spi-fpga</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
TheZoq2<p>For the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VHDL</span></a> enjoyers out there, we just added experimental support for the GHW wave format to Surfer.</p><p>Since it is experimental, we expect some things to be broken, so if you try it and find a GHW file that doesn't work properly, please open an issue!</p><p>Thanks to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@ekiwi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ekiwi</span></a></span> for adding this support to the Wellen library!</p><p>As always you can try it in the browser if you don't feel like installing something <a href="https://app.surfer-project.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">app.surfer-project.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Peter Brett<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@danluu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>danluu</span></a></span> Having used both: I still don't understand how the industry settled on <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Verilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Verilog</span></a> rather than <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VHDL</span></a>, which is vastly superior.</p>
Ross of Ottawa<p>In the '90s I worked on big chip design projects, and would create these big test suites for part of my chip's functionality which would've taken about 100years (literally) to run on one machine, but i could farm out the tasks to process in parallel on all the machines of my co-workers when they went home and get it done in 10 or 12 hrs instead. It created a sense that an idle processor is a wasted opportunity.</p><p>Could hashtag that with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/verilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>verilog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vhdl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sunOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sunOS</span></a> I suppose</p>
PipelineC<p>Have you fine Mastodon folks seen this awesome work?</p><p>First ever raytraced game thats not software? 1080p realtime, interactive, fixed+float point, 3D vector math, no CPU, no instructions, autopipelined in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FPGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FPGA</span></a>! <br>@suarezvictor's fantastic work w/ CflexHDL + PipelineC! <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/raytracing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>raytracing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/graphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graphics</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hardware</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/hdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hdl</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/verilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>verilog</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vhdl</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/eda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eda</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/hn3sr3VMJQU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/hn3sr3VMJQU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Remi<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a><br>I guess this is a Mastodon thing. Good morning. I'm a EE working primarily with <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/fpga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fpga</span></a> devices, primarily in <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vhdl</span></a> (though <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/verilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>verilog</span></a> if I have to). I currently work creating testing equipment for <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/avionics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avionics</span></a>. Generally prefer <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> for development though I did write VHDL Mode for <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/sublimetext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sublimetext</span></a> which works pretty well.</p><p>In regular life I'm a <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> and <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantasy</span></a> reader, enjoy walking my <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/dog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dog</span></a>, enjoy raiding and M+ in <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/warcraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warcraft</span></a>, enjoy playing Go (<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/gogame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gogame</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/baduk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>baduk</span></a>), and other things.</p>