r/FPGA
95k members
r/FPGA is a subreddit with 95k 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, advice / solved, news, and dsp.
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
: "Vivado TCL"
38 posts
#2
Xilinx Related
: "Finished implementing UART, SPI and I²C from scratch in Verilog"
22 posts
#3
Advice / Solved
: "My RISC-V MCU is working"
3 posts
#4
News
: "Today we are launching FPGA Horizons Lab Notes - deeply technical guides and resources. "
3 posts
#5
DSP
: "Numerical Python directly to FPGA for rapid controls/DSP development; comparison against Bambu and Allo/Vitis"
2 posts
#6
Interview / Job
: "FPGA/ASIC design job market in Germany"
2 posts
#7
Altera Related
: "[Workaround / Fix] Missing SDRAM Controller in Quartus Prime Lite (v22.x+ / Tested on 25.1)"
2 posts
#8
Gowin Related
: "I built a custom CNN accelerator from scratch on a $25 FPGA (Tang Nano 20K)"
1 post
#9
Machine Learning/AI
: "Wrote two parallel INT8 MAC engines with 16 bit accumulation on an FPGA with 1120 LUTs and 32 kB BRAM for a diffusion model"
1 post
#10
Lattice Related
: "Icepizero stereogram device"
1 post
Member Growth in r/FPGA
Yearly
+21k members(28.8%)
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Last updated: August 29, 2026