When learning a new programming language, I like having a well defined yet non-trivial problem to solve. Conway’s Game of Life (GoL) fits this definition. It has enough depth to uncover various tradeoffs. So naturally, when I picked up Chisel hardware description language (HDL), I wanted to build Game of Life in FPGA. It turned out to be a lot more interesting than in software. This post will follow my progress from writing Chisel and Verilog code to running GoL on Digilent Arty A7 and seei...
