icestudio

:snowflake: Visual editor for open FPGA boards (by FPGAwars)

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  • Ao486_MiSTer: i486 core for the MiSTer FPGA gaming system
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Mar 2023
  • Icestudio: Drag and Drop FPGA programming and learning
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2022
    In fact that docs are out of date and even more boards are supported and you can find the list directly in icestudio menu. If you want to check it beforehand, i think it's possible to see the list here in source code:

    https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio/tree/develop/app/resou...

    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2022
    No it's not. Maybe the development is bit slow, because it's not funded by big players. Didn't tried nightly builds, but there is some prerelease available:

    https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio/releases

    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2022
    There is list of supported boards in menu. "Ice" in Icestudio was originaly for (Latt)ICE or ICE(40) i guess.

    But since the F4PGA (formerly known as Symbiflow) is opensource project used to abstract away various FPGA makes (just like gcc and llvm support different CPU architectures). It is quite possible to support more than that. For example right now there is guy working on integrating Apicula project to add support for Gowin FPGA based boards which are extremely cheap:

    https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio/issues/645

    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2022
  • Comprehensive list of FPGA development boards
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2022
    This is crazy helpful for beginners: https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio

    They have drag and drop visual gates and cores with very well documented examples.

    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2022
  • MEGA65 – highly advanced C64 and C65 compatible 8-bit computer
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Sep 2021
    I am slowly moving off my retro computing hobby. The last straw was recent chip shortage and crazy prices. I bought myself a copy of "The 8088 Project Book" and I wanted to build the presented 8088 breadboard computer. Guess what? The only factory that was building compatible 8088/8086 chips caught fire (Renesas factory fire). I had to order 20 year old chips for the price x2 of the new chips. But not only that, some chips are either unavailable or crazy expensive due to a lot of recent interests in retro-comp.

    In other way, the hobby became unreasonably expensive for me. So I decided to move my interests into FPGA. The fun is almost the same, but the cost is way lower (you only need to buy a good board and a book, and you are set up). I started with this extremely simple IDE: https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio

    As for this build, I have mixed feelings about using FPGAs to revive old computers. Can't we create something new out of it? It would be fun to have a _modern_ FPGA based SBC with easy to program graphics (memory mapped) and with simple device interface (I think USB is way too complicated for hobbyists). Just something powerful enough to create games, yet simple enough so that teenager can write a simple OS in his spare time.

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