Hey! I'm Pawel. I built this solo over the past several months.
The problem I wanted to solve: one of the barricades for the beginners learning hardware design is having to spend an entire evening setting up EDA tools, just to see a single waveform. A lot of beginners will give up fairly quickly before even getting to writing any code. I decided to make it easier for them and build a browser-based IDE. RisingEdge lets you write VHDL or SystemVerilog, run a simulation, see the waveform, and even check what the code actually synthesizes into. Everything is built with real open-source tools (GHDL, Icarus Verilog, Yosys).
I put a lot of effort into making the synthesis view good for new learners. You can see a gate level netlist with cell counts, a block level view highlighting the code that produced the block, and even auto-generated state machine diagrams to make debug easier.
There are 3 separate ways to use the tool:
- Learn: a full course from Fundamentals to Advanced, over 100 lessons, examples, and exercises each
- Practice: over 50 challenges built to sound like real-world engineering tasks
- Playground: lets you run any arbitrary RTL if you want to try things out or just see what it synthesizes into
Most of the content is free with no account: the entire Practice section, the Playground, and the Fundamentals section of the curriculum. The only paid thing is the full course - and it's billed as a single non-recurring payment.
I used to think EDA tools for FPGAs were the absolute worst development environment, until I wanted to modify an open-source application on my phone, and tried to install and run Android Studio. It manages to out bloat both Vivado and Quartus. At least I wouldn't need to buy a special computer to run it, like the Xcode development environment for iOS.
I've ended up using Yosys from a command line, while editing the files in a text editor.
Ha! I've worked with all of those and can't even tell you how much I agree. I think I'd also add Visual Studio to the list; recently I switched to command line compilation and editing code in VSCode and do not miss Visual Studio, not even one bit of it.
It looks promising, thanks for sharing, but 12months access isn’t great, it should be unlimited just like other platforms, you bought the course, you access it whenever. Cheers
Hey! I'm Pawel. I built this solo over the past several months.
The problem I wanted to solve: one of the barricades for the beginners learning hardware design is having to spend an entire evening setting up EDA tools, just to see a single waveform. A lot of beginners will give up fairly quickly before even getting to writing any code. I decided to make it easier for them and build a browser-based IDE. RisingEdge lets you write VHDL or SystemVerilog, run a simulation, see the waveform, and even check what the code actually synthesizes into. Everything is built with real open-source tools (GHDL, Icarus Verilog, Yosys).
I put a lot of effort into making the synthesis view good for new learners. You can see a gate level netlist with cell counts, a block level view highlighting the code that produced the block, and even auto-generated state machine diagrams to make debug easier.
There are 3 separate ways to use the tool: - Learn: a full course from Fundamentals to Advanced, over 100 lessons, examples, and exercises each - Practice: over 50 challenges built to sound like real-world engineering tasks - Playground: lets you run any arbitrary RTL if you want to try things out or just see what it synthesizes into
Most of the content is free with no account: the entire Practice section, the Playground, and the Fundamentals section of the curriculum. The only paid thing is the full course - and it's billed as a single non-recurring payment.
Happy to answer any questions!
I used to think EDA tools for FPGAs were the absolute worst development environment, until I wanted to modify an open-source application on my phone, and tried to install and run Android Studio. It manages to out bloat both Vivado and Quartus. At least I wouldn't need to buy a special computer to run it, like the Xcode development environment for iOS.
I've ended up using Yosys from a command line, while editing the files in a text editor.
Ha! I've worked with all of those and can't even tell you how much I agree. I think I'd also add Visual Studio to the list; recently I switched to command line compilation and editing code in VSCode and do not miss Visual Studio, not even one bit of it.
It looks promising, thanks for sharing, but 12months access isn’t great, it should be unlimited just like other platforms, you bought the course, you access it whenever. Cheers