[Noisebridge-discuss] FPGA experience/pointers/tips?

grey artkiver at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 00:12:23 UTC 2009


Depending on what you're interested in; you might want to look into
http://www.picocomputing.com 's stuff too.  They've got a buncha unusual
form factor virtex-4 & 5 options; and h1kari works for them & has done quite
a bit of neat hacking with them that you could probably use as-is. :)
-grey

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Lamont Lucas <lamont at cluepon.com> wrote:

> Christoph Maier wrote:
>
>> AFAIK both the freebie Xilinx ISE and Altera Quartus design tools speak
>> both Verilog and VHDL.
>> Are there open source compilers without the feature limitations of
>> Xilinx's and Altera's free tools?
>>
>
> Check out icarus's iverilog (http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/).
> I used this to write modules and test them, viewing the waveforms in
> gtkwave or just as text, then when I had it right I used the free xilinx
> webpack tools to do the pin mapping and final compile.  ($display is your
> friend)
>
> AFAIK, none of the major FPGA vendors have an open compiler that will
> actually generate the loadable bitstream, but you can at least do your
> development on unix in a text environment, then copy the resulting .v files
> over for a final compile.
>
>
>
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