Open source FPGA toolchains!
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Who makes the board? Too grainy to read the print. :-)
That's not a great picture, and it should probably be a video to properly appreciate my rotating, blinky light "hello, world", but I'll just go with what I've got. After way too much time, I finally had an opportunity to sit down and try to play with the Lattice Semi IceStick dev board. But instead of using the proprietary tools, I used Project IceStorm tools. It was an amazing feeling to sit down with just open source tools and go from Verilog source to a binary that is sent to the FPGA. This should be as commonplace as using GCC to compile a program for a CPU, but it still isn't. Anyway, it's a start, and I hope it leads to more things.
Charles Stanhope at 2017-04-25T01:48:46Z
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Nice! Looks like some enterprising hackers have already added the toolchain to GuixSD. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/fpga.scm?id=v0.12.0-3241-g43ba5dd
Charles Stanhope at 2017-04-25T01:54:57Z
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