It's been a while since my last post, and although there has been some interesting work on more example designs (which just got sent to fab 🎉) that'll be another post for another day, hopefully with some fun videos. But today, we revisit an old friend: refactoring the compiler. Again. IntelliJ...
Fix one bug... Two more pop up... In getting the electronics HDL IDE set up on a new machine, it threw a bunch of errors because sbt was compiling to a newer Java bytecode version than supported by the IntelliJ Java runtime. The fixes tried previously didn't work (perhaps as a result of technolo...
One of the main difference between the board design tools we work on, and mainstream schematic tools is the much more expressive and rich data model. Instead of simply a netlist (components, pins, and connections between them) with very little additional data, we have the notion of blocks, ports, an...
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