Kategorie: FPGA

  • GateMate FPGAs

    The company Cologne Chip AG in Köln, Germany, is the only company that uses yosys as the only synthesiz tool. Though for place&route it uses its own binary console application which is only available for Linux and Windows. Though a contact recently confirmed me that it will move to the open source tool NextPnR as…

  • Test Boards

    Those are the boards I have available for testing: Sipeed Tang Nano 4K Sipeed Tang Primer 20K Lattice Icestick

  • Progress

    Currently working on the file editing system, meaning open/close and save files. Drop files directly into editor and so on. For example you can drop several files at once into the project outline area and it puts the files there where they are belonging to. Also not a small task is to create a SQLite…

  • macOS FPGA IDE

    My macOS FPGA IDE relies on external tools such as Yosys, NextPnR, openFPGAloader and Icestorm. Those tools are easily installable via homebrew or can be compiled from sources. The IDE looks on startup which tools are installed either in /opt/homebrew/bin or /usr/local/bin. No need to specify the full path to the tools. The tools are…