MinecraftHDL VS clash-ghc

There's MinecraftHDL, which synthesizes verilog down to redstone.

Already exists for Verilog: https://github.com/itsFrank/MinecraftHDL

And of course, a quick google reveals that someone has already built it! https://github.com/itsFrank/MinecraftHDL

Theres this, but it only allows simple designs because it produces very space-inefficient layouts.

u/Alikont mentioned this one: https://github.com/itsFrank/MinecraftHDL

...apparently that already exists, too.

Thanks! I came across this Verilog to Minecraft redstone converter a while back which should allow for such things (never tried it though).

https://github.com/itsFrank/MinecraftHDL came up on a google search.

Factorio's advantage is the blueprints / blueprint strings, which would make it easy to transfer stuff in to the game.

> You'd be better off with a higher-level or more modern HDL that compiles to Verilog/VHDL. "Chisel" is one such.

As is Clash :) https://clash-lang.org/

You can take a look at https://clash-lang.org/. There is also a book for it. https://gergo.erdi.hu/retroclash/

I don't know much about FPGAs, but Clash lang compiles to VHDL, and might do the trick: https://clash-lang.org

if you need inspiration there is a full UART core available in clash: https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/blob/master/clash-cores/src/Clash/Cores/UART.hs

Perhaps peripheral (the original site has been hugged to death).

Both clashlang: https://clash-lang.org/

And Hardcaml: https://github.com/janestreet/hardcaml

have personally fueled my interest in hardware.

Dan Luu speaks eloquently and at length about how better options are needed for logic design. I would recommend both of the above to the enthusiastic novice.