pervognsen/bitwise resource

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Bitwise is an educational project by Per Vognsen that builds an entire software/hardware stack for a computer from scratch, including HDL compilers, FPGA hardware, kernels, and systems tools, accompanied by videos and articles. The C-based source code is released into the public domain for study and extension.

Use cases

• learn how compilers and assemblers work from scratch
• understand how CPUs and hardware are designed and simulated
• study how operating system kernels are built
• learn low-level systems programming in C
• follow a guided course on building a computer stack
• learn FPGA and hardware description language basics

When to choose

• you want to deeply understand how computers work by building one from scratch
• you prefer learning through videos paired with real source code
• you want public-domain example code for compilers, kernels, or HDLs

When to avoid

• you need production-ready or maintained software
• you want a supported toolchain for real FPGA development
• you need up-to-date content or community support

Facets

learning-resource · maturity abandoned

compiler interpreter simulation developer-tools education compilers operating-systems hardware tutorials windows cross-platform educational fpga hardware-description-language systems-programming from-scratch video-series public-domain linux macos

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