FOSSi Foundation

Category

FPGA / HDL / VLSI / PCB

Provider

FOSSi

Type

course

Level

foundation

Topic

FPGA / HDL / VLSI / PCB

Track

FPGA / HDL / VLSI / PCB

Section

n/a

Format

n/a

Status

publishable

Commercial

unknown

Featured

no

Fast start

no

Sequence

n/a

Priority

n/a

Primary source

learning_paths

Sources

learning_paths

ID

442729594cb9ab9a

ngspice Documentation

ngspice

SPICE simulation fundamentals for circuits, analog design, and verification.

Qucs-S (Quite Universal Circuit Simulator)

Qucs-S

Open circuit simulation tooling; complements ngspice + PySpice workflows.

openEMS (Electromagnetic Field Solver)

openEMS

Open EM simulation stack for antennas, microwave structures, and RF engineering.

CircuitVerse (Interactive circuits)

CircuitVerse

Practice digital logic and circuit intuition with an interactive simulator.

KiCad Documentation

curated

Open-source EDA for schematics and PCB layout.

Yosys Open SYnthesis Suite

YosysHQ

Open-source synthesis to learn HDL flows and digital design toolchains.

OpenROAD

The OpenROAD Project

End-to-end open-source RTL-to-GDS toolchain (advanced VLSI contribution path).

gprMax

gprMax (GitHub)

FDTD EM simulation for RF/microwave wave propagation and antenna-style problems.

Verilator

Verilator

High-performance Verilog/SystemVerilog simulator for fast testing and CI.

MIT Quantum Physics I / II / III bundle

MIT

The right deeper theory route if you want more than SDK-level familiarity.

Hugging Face Learn

Hugging Face

Covers transformers, LLMs, agents, CV, audio, RL, and more with modern tooling.

The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to DSP (free)

dspguide.com

Classic DSP foundations: filtering, FFTs, noise, and practical signal intuition.