Picture of some HDL code

What Is HDL? The explanation you did not request

Introduction If you’re a hardware engineer you need no explanation — this is more for the programmers who try to build things with an FPGA, believing it’s the next step up from Arduino. (I happen to agree, so no judgment here.) As someone who wrote a lot of code in my youth (and still loves fiddling with the Linux kernel), I’m lucky that I understood the purpose of HDL early on. ...

May 27, 2025 · Daniel Blackbeard
Digilent Arty A7 board connected

Blog introduction

Let me be brief, as this is just to fill the emptiness of a newly created blog: I want to learn new skills and take notes that can be shared with people, in the hope that they will find them useful as well. In this blog I have the plan to showcase my personal projects on electronics and perhaps other fields, maybe adding some of the knowledge I have accumulated over the last few years in the field (if it doesn’t break any NDA, of course). ...

May 25, 2025 · Daniel Blackbeard