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Real FPGA hardware built by Claude Code from one prompt
In an Octopart build, a single prompt has Claude Code drive a real FPGA project end to end with no human help.
Credits
- Video channel Octopart Source ↗
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The full story
Octopart gave Claude Code (running Opus 4.8) one prompt and a Digilent Cmod S7 FPGA board, then left it alone. It designed a digital low-pass filter: generating the coefficients in Python, writing the Verilog, scripting the Vivado build, simulating, building the bitstream and programming the board over JTAG.
It then tested its own work. Through custom MCP servers for an Analog Discovery 2 and a Rigol oscilloscope, it generated test signals at 1, 5 and 15 kHz and captured the results to show the cutoff above 10 kHz. The creator was at the zoo while it ran.
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From the maker's own write-up or code. We summarise what they report; we haven't tested it ourselves.
- YouTube: I Let Claude Code Build Real FPGA Hardware — One Shot, No HumanVideo channel: OctopartPublished
The Octopart video, with the parts list.