Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code or VSCode is a popular text editor used by millions of people for editing and debugging code. You are strongly encouraged to use Visual Studio Code for editing text files in this class. This tutorial describes how to get started using VSCode for this class.

VSCode provides the following features that will help you during the semester:

• Integrated support for managing git repositories and version control
• Integrated terminal for running commands on the command line
• Support for extensions that provide syntax highlighting and code completion for SystemVerilog

Extensions:

• Verilog-HDL/SystemVerilog/Bluespec SystemVerilog: This extension provides syntax highlighting for SystemVerilog files, tcl files, and xdc files.

VS Code Resources

• VS Code Documentation
• ECEN 224 VS Code Walkthrough
• BYU Computing Bootcamp VSCode Module
• BYU IT&C VSCode and Git Instalation Guide