Write, simulate and synthesize VHDL/Verilog in the browser
Details
- External ID
- 49023076
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Write, simulate and synthesize VHDL/Verilog in the browser
- Website domain
- risingedge.pro
- Launched
- July 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 19
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7037037037037037
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- hdl simulator and synthesizer in browser
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Compiling, simulating, and synthesizing VHDL/SystemVerilog in the browser requires porting complex open-source EDA tools (GHDL, Icarus Verilog, Yosys) to WebAssembly or running isolated sandboxed container runtimes with interactive waveform renderers.
What it would actually take: A production implementation requires compiling complex C/C++ EDA toolchains (Yosys, GHDL, Icarus) to WebAssembly with Emscripten or running low-latency Linux microVMs/containers (e.g. Firecracker). The frontend needs custom hardware netlist visualization (ELK/Graphviz) and dynamic VCD waveform parsing into canvas-based viewers. This requires specialized knowledge in hardware description languages, compiler tooling, and WebAssembly compilation of large native C++ codebases.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Visual Studio, Vivado, Quartus, Xcode, Android Studio
Concerns raised: 12-month access limitation instead of unlimited lifetime access, EDA tools have poor user experience and steep setup barriers for beginners
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