r/FPGA
94k members
r/FPGA is a subreddit with 94k members. The community frequently discusses fpga, vivado, design, struggling, and interview, and they frequently recommend/review text editor, laptops, and textbooks, and the most common flair used is advice / help, xilinx related, news, interview / job, and machine learning/ai.
A subreddit for programmable hardware, including topics such as:
* FPGA
* CPLD
* Verilog
* VHDL
Popular Topics in r/FPGA
#1
Fpga
208 posts
#2
Vivado
43 posts
#3
Design
33 posts
#4
Struggling
32 posts
#5
Interview
29 posts
#6
Verilog
14 posts
#7
Hdl
12 posts
#8
Simulation
11 posts
#9
Xilinx
11 posts
#10
Help
11 posts
Products Discussed in r/FPGA
Text Editor
10 reviews
#1
Visual Studio Code
4.4★ from 5 reviews
#2
Sublime Text
4.3★ from 3 reviews
#3
Emacs
4.0★ from 1 review
Laptops
6 reviews
#1
Lenovo
4.0★ from 2 reviews
#2
Dell
5.0★ from 2 reviews
#3
LG
4.0★ from 1 review
Textbooks
6 reviews
#1
Harris
5.0★ from 2 reviews
#2
Uwe Meyer-Baese
5.0★ from 1 review
#3
James E. Moran
5.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/FPGA
#1
Advice / Help
: "I got tired of waiting for heavy EDA suites to load just to check small blocks, so I built a browser-based RTL visualiser."
46 posts
#2
Xilinx Related
: "I built a 4-bit CPU as a personal project and wanted technical feedback."
8 posts
#3
News
: "Hog 2026.2 released!"
5 posts
#4
Interview / Job
: "Mods: Please add community rule for questions on "How do I get HFT job""
4 posts
#5
Machine Learning/AI
: "My Neural Network Accelerator finally works"
3 posts
#6
Advice / Solved
: "Claude Code and FPGA Builds"
2 posts
#7
Meme Friday
: "Making a GPU? VGA? : Day 0"
2 posts
#8
DSP
: "Could a MAX1000 FPGA push this 28.9M TinyStories model past 9.5 tok/s?"
2 posts
#9
Microchip Related
: "I made an out-of-order CPU"
1 post
#10
Gowin Related
: "motorloop - Verilator testbench that runs BLDC controller RTL closed-loop against a C++ motor/inverter model"
1 post
Member Growth in r/FPGA
Yearly
+21k members(28.5%)
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Last updated: August 7, 2026