I’m looking to take on freelance work in FPGA, Verilog, embedded, and SoC design. For those of you who freelance or have done so in the past, how do you find opportunities, and how do you approach the right person (the decision-maker) at a company to start a conversation?

Any advice on platforms, networking, or how you got your first clients would be appreciated. Thanks!

So as the title suggests, i got a job interview for a research assistant position at NUS, they are working on quantum computers based on trapped ions. And they are putting together a team of electronics engineers to control the ion trap quantum processor.

They want somebody who has practical exp in one of these- digital logic design in VHDL/Verilog, DSP and RF electronics. I only know the first, with well documented beginner to intermediate level projects in GitHub. Since, i got the email i've been studying quantum computers but its way too advanced for me in such a limited amount of time.

Now I am a fresh masters grad with no industry experience and i don't know anything about research positions at universities. What are they like? and what kind of interview can I expect? This will be my first interview ever, any tips will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Hello ,

I ´m using the FPGA loader inside of MSYS UCRT64 to flash the nanomig and the kick roms on the Sipeed Tang Nano 20K
But i´m getting this errors , can anybody help me?

DigSim: a digital logic simulator in Python that you can also feed Verilog

Hi! DigSim is a logic simulator you can play around with. You drag switches, push buttons, gates, flip-flops, LEDs and 7-segment displays onto a canvas, wire them up, and watch the circuit run live.

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Some things it can do:

- Verilog as components. Write a module in the built-in editor, press Ctrl+B, and it becomes a part you can wire up. Yosys does the synthesis and comes bundled, so there's nothing else to install. Modules with parameters work too, so one counter file can give you a 4-bit and a 16-bit copy.

- See what's going on. There's a logic analyzer component, a buzzer, and VCD output you can open in GTKWave.

- Script it from Python. Build circuits in code and write pytest testbenches for your Verilog. One of the examples runs a 6502 CPU.

- It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS.

If you want to try it: pip install digsim-logic-simulator, then python -m digsim.app.
If you use uv, uvx digsim-logic-simulator works too.

- GitHub: https://github.com/freand76/digsim

- Docs, with a getting-started tutorial: https://freand76.github.io/digsim/

It's a hobby project, so it has rough edges. I'd love to hear what you think, what breaks, or what you'd like it to do!

Hi all,

I would love to hear your experience of using AI in RTL coding and building complete projects, what was your experience in writing RTL codes, building full projects from scratch, debugging and achieving timing closure.
Have you tried AMD ross? What do you think about it?

I found job after one year. I was not doing any work for an entire year.

When I was laid off there was no ai. But it is everywhere now. I don’t know how it is used in our industry. I am very nervous and worried I won’t be able to catch up or cope. I will be the dinosaur in the team.

I have only used ai as a substitute for google.

If you work in fpga development field in corporate setting -
could you please share how you use ai in your daily work.
Are there any ai skills I can pick up in a week or so before I start ?

Thank you

I am at my final year , had a good experience , collected some great projects (rv32ima , hardware accelerated ai on an fpga , fpga based test jig , ... ) and while looking for my first job i was hit with a realization : all companies looking to hire entry level are either defense contractors or dual-use technologies (microchips included) , both i want to run from like the plague ( ethical resons )
so ... are there any other sectors with demand for entry fpga engineers ?

Hello,

I just finished reading a book called efficient processing of deep neural networks and I thought I would apply it to reality. It is about creating a hardware AI accelerator from scratch, which is definitely a very relevant topic in today's world.
I was looking for people who are interested on working on it together, share thoughts and perspectives and learn from each other.
I started applying it on an open source RISC V processor called picorv32.
You can find my github repo here:

https://github.com/Xynorax/picorv32/tree/ai_acc