RORobotToaster·Mar 5, 2023
Icestudio sounds similar to what you're looking for, but I'm not sure if it works with existing code.
https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio
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:snowflake: Visual editor for open FPGA boards
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8 sourcesIn fact these docs are out of date and now even more boards are supported.
You can find the list directly in icestudio menu. If you want to check it beforehand without installing icestudio, i think it's possible to see the list here in source code:
https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio/tree/develop/app/resou...
In Icestudio: Drag and Drop FPGA programming and learningThere 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
In Icestudio: Drag and Drop FPGA programming and learningNo 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
In Icestudio: Drag and Drop FPGA programming and learningIcestudio: Drag and Drop FPGA programming and learning
69 points · Open discussionThis is crazy helpful for beginners: https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio
They have drag and drop FPGA programming using visual gates and cores with very well documented examples.
In Comprehensive list of FPGA development boardsBTW This is very cool: https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio
In Comprehensive list of FPGA development boardsI 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 hav
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e 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.