[domipheus]

Hey - author here. I'm not wanting to learn industry practices, it's a hobby project. May look into things like that later, though. The other article parts have the disclaimer that says I have no idea what I'm doing ;) Cheers for the feedback :)

[gluggymug]

Uh oh. I didn't realize you were actually on HN. Apologies if my other spiel seems too harsh.

Perhaps the better sounding term would be "engineering practices" rather than "industry practices". If it's a hobby, you still want to get a good result out of your effort. That principle in industry still applies to the hobbyist IMO.

The signal names issue that alain94040 mentioned was just an example of one problem with the code.

Assuming the desired result is to get running on an fpga, I think you need to take a step back for a second and look at the target environment you want to run on and plan out how it will all work.

[domipheus]

Hah, don't worry - I didn't think it was harsh. I've had no training/edu in HDL whatsoever, so this was a deep dive - I expected to be told I'm doing wrong!

The end result is on FPGA, yes. Still a long way before that works. And I'll make sure any massive screwups are documented in next parts, those are the best parts (and, probably most valuable) to write about :)