Tiny Tapeout VGA Playground

This looks really cool!<p>A nitpick: the Verilog simulation seems to be handled by the open-source Verilator project, which is packaged as a binary WASM blob without any acknowledgement or source code. I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s compliant with either of the licenses under which Verilator is distributed (LGPL-3.0 or Artistic License).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;verilator&#x2F;verilator">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;verilator&#x2F;verilator</a>

if you like this sort of stuff, tiny tapeout is running a demo competition. i hope we will see some interesting entries there<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinytapeout.com&#x2F;competitions&#x2F;demoscene&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinytapeout.com&#x2F;competitions&#x2F;demoscene&#x2F;</a>

This is awesome, and I really want to learn enough verilog to do a tiny tape out VGA chip design.<p>But man, 8bitworkshop really burned me out on trying to do verilog in a web IDE, and trying to set up verilator properly for local simulation with a proper IDE became such a hassle.<p>Ended up moving away from verilog for the moment back to normal software projects. I really want to get back in, but I really don&#x27;t want to spend my limited coding time fighting IDEs and tooling.

Cool. Reminds me of a course project I did 12 years ago (bacholers..) on an FPGA [1]. I used the ADC on the FPGA board to read the line input audio signal, implemted a VGA driver and a VU meter, implemented a 32-bin FFT to create the VU Meter inputs, and finally implemented a 1 bit delta-sigma modulator to drive a speaker to create the audio back. All in Verilog, on a 100$ FPGA board (Spartan 3 FWIW) in 2 weeks. Good times..<p>[1] Demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=n3hphFfxZMQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=n3hphFfxZMQ</a>

Neat. The example code that makes the cool patterns is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TinyTapeout&#x2F;vga-playground&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;src&#x2F;examples">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TinyTapeout&#x2F;vga-playground&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;src&#x2F;...</a>

This looks like a really fun way to experiment while learning Verilog!