Mimir, Keeper of the Well of Wisdom
Achieve Superhuman RTL Productivity: Master the Vim Workflow
https://www.udemy.com/course/vim-for-silicon-engineers-boost-
your-rtl-productivity/
Year : 2026
Language : English
Level : All Levels
Category : IT & Software
Subcategory : Hardware
Duration : 5h 21m
Lectures : 88
Rating : 0.0/5 (0 reviews)
Students : 9
INSTRUCTOR(S)
HEADLINE
Build a blazing-fast, custom RTL environment on any machine,
right out of the box
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
* Move through thousand-line Verilog modules by intention, not
by scrolling ? no arrow keys, no mouse, precise jumps every
time.
* Do repetitive RTL edits once, then replay them: rename a
signal across a whole project in seconds with macros, the
dot,
and :cdo.
* Work at full speed on a headless compute-farm server over
SSH
? the exact same skills as on your own laptop, everywhere
you
log in.
* Practise on real open-source silicon (SERV RISC-V, picorv32)
with 21 graded labs that tell you exactly what you got
wrong.
REQUIREMENTS
* No Vim experience needed ? the course starts from the very
first keystroke. You should be able to read basic
Verilog/SystemVerilog. Any machine with Vim (Linux, macOS,
WSL) ? everything used is free and open source.
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR
* RTL, verification, DFT and physical-design engineers who
live
inside text files all day (often over SSH on remote servers)
and want their hours back ? no prior Vim experience
required.
DESCRIPTION
You spend your career inside text. Verilog and SystemVerilog,
testbenches, timing reports, synthesis logs, waveforms dumped
to
files you actually have to read. Here's the uncomfortable
question: for all those hours, how much of your editing speed
have you ever invested in? Most hardware engineers never do.
They learn just enough of an editor to survive, and then pay
for
it every single day ? a few seconds here, a manual rename
there,
a hand leaving the keyboard for the mouse a thousand times a
week. This course is the fix, and it is built specifically for
our work. Everything is taught on real open-source silicon.
Not
foo and bar ? the SERV RISC-V core and picorv32, the same kind
of RTL you're paid to edit. You'll rename a signal across an
entire project without scrolling. You'll gather scattered port
declarations and drop them as a block. You'll record a fiddly
edit once and replay it forty times. You'll open a compiler
error and land directly on the offending line. And it works
where your work actually happens. Your real job doesn't run in
a
shiny IDE on your desk ? it runs on a compute farm you reached
over SSH, where graphical tools are far away and the
connection
is precious. On that machine there is always a terminal, and
in
that terminal there is always Vim. Learn it once, and you're
fluent on every server you'll ever log into. You'll practise,
not just watch. The course ships with 21 graded labs on real
RTL, plus 42 challenges and 42 quizzes. A companion Vim plugin
checks your work and tells you exactly what's still wrong ? so
you find out you've got it, instead of hoping. We start from a
bare Vim and build up: the modes, moving without arrows, the
operator-and-text-object grammar that turns editing into a
language you compose instead of commands you memorise. Then
macros, search and replace, the global command, project-wide
edits, fuzzy finding, buffers and windows, quickfix, your own
statusline, syntax colouring for your signals, sessions,
merges,
the undo tree ? and finally real Vimscript, where you turn
your
own repetitive chores into tools and package them like a
proper
plugin. It ends with a capstone on a real RISC-V core: bring a
new signal out through three files, the way you'd actually do
it
at work. By the end you'll edit code without your hands
leaving
the home row, move through a thousand-line module by intention
instead of by arrow key, and do it just as fluently on a
headless Linux box as on your laptop. Not tricks ? a skill you
keep for the rest of your career.
COURSE CONTENT
Chapter 1: Introduzione
1. Introduzione
Chapter 2: Module 1 · Foundations
2. Setup: your engineer's baseline
3. Solution ? Setup: your engineer's baseline
4. Modes: the one idea everything is built on
5. Solution ? Modes: the one idea everything is built on
6. The insert doors
7. Solution ? The insert doors
8. Move without arrows
9. Solution ? Move without arrows
10. Absolute jumps and marks
11. Solution ? Absolute jumps and marks
12. Operators and text objects
13. Solution ? Operators and text objects
14. Delete, change, yank ? and the dot
15. Solution ? Delete, change, yank ? and the dot
16. Named registers
17. Solution ? Named registers
18. Search and the workhorse rename
19. Solution ? Search and the workhorse rename
20. Undo and redo
21. Solution ? Undo and redo
22. Visual mode
23. Solution ? Visual mode
24. Counts and the dot
25. Solution ? Counts and the dot
Chapter 3: Module 2 · Repetition
26. Macros, the single biggest force multiplier in the whole
editor
27. Solution ? Macros, the single biggest force multiplier
in the whole editor
28. Search and replace, where a pattern stops finding text
and starts rewriting it
29. Solution ? Search and replace, where a pattern stops
finding text and starts rew
30. The global command, the most powerful key most people
never learn
31. Solution ? The global command, the most powerful key
most people never learn
Chapter 4: Module 3 · Shape
32. Indent
33. Solution ? Indent
34. Folding
35. Solution ? Folding
36. Diff
37. Solution ? Diff
Chapter 5: Module 4 · Scale
38. The setup lesson for Module four: Scale
39. And to Module four: Scale
40. Solution ? And to Module four: Scale
41. Fuzzy find
42. Solution ? Fuzzy find
43. Buffers, windows, tabs
44. Solution ? Buffers, windows, tabs
45. Quickfix and project search
46. Solution ? Quickfix and project search
47. Align
48. Solution ? Align
49. Vimscript
50. Solution ? Vimscript
51. Build your own statusline
52. Solution ? Build your own statusline
53. Colour your signals
54. Solution ? Colour your signals
Chapter 6: Module 5 · Precision
55. Marks and jumps
56. Solution ? Marks and jumps
57. Sessions and views
58. Solution ? Sessions and views
59. The command-line window
60. Solution ? The command-line window
61. Insert-mode completion
62. Solution ? Insert-mode completion
63. Advanced macros
64. Solution ? Advanced macros
Chapter 7: Module 6 · Command
65. Windows, tabs and layouts
66. Solution ? Windows, tabs and layouts
67. Regex mastery
68. Solution ? Regex mastery
69. Build and test
70. Solution ? Build and test
71. Ex-command power
72. Solution ? Ex-command power
73. The clipboard, the black-hole register, and the
calculator
74. Solution ? The clipboard, the black-hole register, and
the calculator
Chapter 8: Module 7 · Pro
75. Diff and three-way merge
76. Solution ? Diff and three-way merge
77. The undo tree and time travel
78. Solution ? The undo tree and time travel
79. Project-wide edits with colon cdo and colon cfdo
80. Solution ? Project-wide edits with colon cdo and colon
cfdo
81. When your tool meets reality
82. Fold and outline your RTL
83. Vimscript at scale
84. Reading an interface
85. Trace a signal through the netlist
Chapter 9: Capstone
86. Capstone A ? Recon on a real RISC-V core
87. Capstone B ? Cutting the change
88. Capstone C ? Reconciling with your team
DATES
Published : 2026-08-10
Last Updated : 2026-08-11
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