VLSIChaps Academy

Learn chip design
the way it's actually done.

Hands-on courses for RTL design, SystemVerilog verification, UVM, and AI-driven EDA. With an AI mentor that explains every failure.

20,000+
community engineers
Free
all courses, always
Verilator
open-source practice engine
Track 01 Live
SystemVerilog
a Hands-On Primer

From first principles to a self-checking layered testbench. No UVM, no commercial tool licences needed — just the language, the logic, and an AI mentor that explains every compile error and simulation failure.

Data types Interfaces Clocking blocks Assertions Constrained random Functional coverage Testbench architecture
20 pages ~8 hours Beginner to intermediate
Track 02 Coming soon
UVM
Universal Verification Methodology

The industry-standard verification framework. Sequences, drivers, monitors, scoreboards. The complete UVM testbench architecture from scratch, with simulation traces you can inspect at every step.

UVM phases uvm_component Sequences TLM ports Scoreboard Register model
Prerequisite: Track 01
Track 03 Building
Formal Verification
SVA + Model Checking

SystemVerilog Assertions from syntax to signoff-quality property sets. Bounded model checking, liveness properties, and how to structure formal verification for real SoC blocks without drowning in counterexamples.

SVA sequences Properties Assume / Assert / Cover FPV methodology
Prerequisite: Track 01
Track 04 Building
AI Agents for EDA
Autonomous workflows across the chip design flow

How LLMs and agentic systems are being deployed inside real chip design flows today — and where the gaps still are. Hands-on demos using open models and open EDA tools, not a slideshow about the future.

LLM for RTL generation Coverpoint inference Bug triage agents RAG over EDA docs
No prerequisites
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Most courses teach you what a tool does. Academy teaches you why a design fails, and how to prove it cannot fail again. The difference between an engineer who signs off a chip and one who is still debugging at tapeout is that second half of SystemVerilog that most tutorials never reach.

01
Concept first

Every page opens with the real engineering problem — not a definition. You understand why before you see how.

02
Practice in Verilator

No licence, no cloud signup. An open-source Verilator sandbox runs in your browser. Write it, compile it, see it break, fix it.

03
AI explains every failure

When Verilator throws an error, the AI mentor reads the exact trace and explains the specific misconception behind your mistake — not a generic hint.

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