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Recently I started refreshing and expanding on my knowledge of digital design. But I found that the way I learned to design logic for FPGAs in a HDL (VHDL in my case) seems lacking in a way. At university, we were dependent on Xilinx Vivado, a proprietary GUI program to write, test, synthesize, and implement HDL. Version control was done by sending zips with VHDL files back and forth. Verification was done by writing testbenches in VHDL and, at best, these loaded in files with input stimuli and the expected outputs, but mostly, verifying the outputs was done by viewing the traces from the testbenches, which, weirdly enough, felt quicker.

Verilog workflow This project is mostly to test out an alternative digital design workflow than what is taught at universities. The design itself is quite simple. It is a Wishbone-UART interface. Over a wishbone bus, a master can ask to read or write a byte. When writing, the byte is transmitted over serial UART. When reading, the module tries to read a byte from a buffer that stores bytes that were received over UART.

Theatron Theatron is a website written in Rust, using the Rocket framework, for organizing locally stored movies and series. It automatically looks up additional information for added content on IMDb providing a better browsing experience than what a file-manager would provide. You can read more about it in the readme.

Before working on this site, I had experience working with Ruby on Rails from a university course project and Symfony 4 from developing the site of CenEka, a student organization I was part of. Both are frameworks that allow you to quickly cobble together a good web application. So the easiest way to develop my own website would’ve been to use the Symfony framework since that would be the framework that I have the most experience with.

ilowagie's personal website This is the source for my personal website. It uses hugo as a static site generator. The site is for hosting my CV, portfolio and a blog that allows me to rant and ramble about things I care about. Since there's no need for any server-side processing to do this, the site is made static.