Inventory of programmable hardware tooling
February 1, 2026
A link page of interesting libraries and utilities I found.
Libraries, utilities, etc.
- https://registry.bazel.build/modules/rules_verilator
- https://github.com/lromor/fpga-assembler
- https://registry.bazel.build/modules/yosys
- https://github.com/oxidecomputer/quartz
- https://github.com/corundum/corundum
- https://www.gaisler.com/grlib-ip-library
- https://surfer-project.org/
- https://gitlab.arm.com/bazel/rules_patchelf
My stuff
All available at: https://hdlfactory.com/bazel-registry/ if you are willing to use bazel.
- https://github.com/filmil/bazel_rules_nvc, builds NVC from source, fully hermetic.
- https://github.com/filmil/bazel_rules_ghdl, uses prebuilt GHDL, fully hermetic.
- https://github.com/filmil/bazel_rules_vivado, uses a prebuilt dockerized Vivado
- Fusesoc / edalize: https://github.com/filmil/bazel_rules_fusesoc_2, builds a hermetic fusesoc/edalize distribution from Python source.
- https://github.com/filmil/bazel_nvc_osvvm
- https://github.com/filmil/bazel_rules_vunit
- https://github.com/filmil/bazel_nvc_vivado