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Ask HN: Good open source hardware project to learn from and contribute to?
I'm willing to learn VHDL or Verilog/SystemVerilog and searching for a project to learn from and later to contribute to. There are almost no projects on GitHub. So are there actually any active and contributor-friendly hardware project?
Also what should be motivation in choice between VHDL, Verilog and SystemVerilog? Are there any recommended books?
- brudgers 10y agoJust a thought, learn VHDL or Verilog before searching for projects to contribute to because most open source projects cannot take on a person with very limited skill using the tools upon which the project is built. I suspect that hardware is less likely to have the ability to absorb greenhorns than software projects given the expense of making changes in production. Good luck.
- EvgeniyZh 10y agoFrom experience of learning other languages, I feel that reading other people code is one of essential parts of language learning. So I'm seeking first of all for a project to learn from, and only then, possibly, to contribute
- ashwn 10y agoI'm curious as to what you find as well. I did some hardware stuff in college, and would love to get back into it.
- digikata 10y agoPerhaps look for projects at hackaday.io too (though there the problem may be sifting through them to find ones with communities vs one-offs). Edit: I see about 1k VHDL and 1K Verilog projects on Github when I search under FPGA. More than I originally thought there might be...
- EvgeniyZh 10y agoYeah, there is a decent amount of projects on Github, but not much of them are actively developed. f32c (https://github.com/f32c/f32c https://github.com/f32c/f32c ) is one of the interesting things I found