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I find both interesting but have been working in software for over a decade now. Honestly, the thing that pushed me into software dev was the fact that hardwar
by cogman10 7mo ago
I find both interesting but have been working in software for over a decade now.
Honestly, the thing that pushed me into software dev was the fact that hardware tools were absolutely garbage. Verilog felt like a joke of a language designed to torment rather than help the user.
- buildbot 7mo agoVerilog is not the best and that’s not even the worst part - tools like ISE/Vivado and Quartus are even worse! It’s really amazing that at least there are some fully open flows for FPGAs these days, unfortunately they don’t support system Verilog. (I think this is still the case?)
- jamesfinlayson 7mo agoYeah at university we had to do some hardware stuff in our software course. I know there were better debug tools available as some students purchased them but playing with microprocessors was no fun.