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Mimir, Keeper of the Well of WisdomAchieve Superhuman RTL Productivity: Master the Vim Workflowhttps://www.udemy.com/course/vim-for-silicon-engineers-boost- your-rtl-productivity/Year : 2026 Language : English Level : All Levels Category : IT &amp; Software Subcategory : Hardware Duration : 5h 21m Lectures : 88 Rating : 0.0/5 (0 reviews) Students : 9INSTRUCTOR(S)HEADLINE Build a blazing-fast, custom RTL environment on any machine, right out of the boxWHAT 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 CONTENTChapter 1: Introduzione 1. IntroduzioneChapter 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 dotChapter 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 learnChapter 4: Module 3 · Shape 32. Indent 33. Solution ? Indent 34. Folding 35. Solution ? Folding 36. Diff 37. Solution ? DiffChapter 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 signalsChapter 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 macrosChapter 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 calculatorChapter 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 netlistChapter 9: Capstone 86. Capstone A ? Recon on a real RISC-V core 87. Capstone B ? Cutting the change 88. Capstone C ? Reconciling with your teamDATES Published : 2026-08-10 Last Updated : 2026-08-11If you fear the truth, dont come to my well.