So, your professor just dropped the bomb: "For this lab, you will be using Xilinx Vivado."

Surviving (and Thriving) in Vivado as a Student: A First-Timer’s Guide

If you just felt a cold shiver run down your spine, you are not alone. Vivado looks intimidating. It’s not a nice, simple IDE like Arduino or PyCharm. It’s a professional-grade beast used to design chips for satellites and AI data centers.

Instead of re-adding files every time, type: add_files -norecurse ./src/top.v

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