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wuxx / icesugar-pro

icesugar-pro

iCESugar series FPGA dev board

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
225GitHub stars
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What it is

iCESugar series FPGA dev board

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-06-06 13:05:38 UTC to 2025-11-17 11:59:21 UTC.

012021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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>I derived from a clock running at twice the speed aah, so CFG_ENABLE_20MHZ runs cpu at 10. I was surprised you could run the bus at 20MHz with this FPGA devboard, 10 makes more sense. As I touched on that in HaD comment this is not a good devboard :( It has terrible pinout https://github.com/wuxx/icesugar-pro/tree/master/schematic all 100 signals huddling together in the middle with only 9 ground pins among them. Very bad for signal integrity. Whats worse someone in China actually decided to sell it commercially :( Luckily you made it work.
In FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT
Commercial development toolchains such as Vivado or Quartus require a Windows or Linux system. For me, it's easier to simply set up a separate Linux machine for FPGA development instead of setting up a VM. However, you can use the open source Symbiflow toolchain (https://symbiflow.github.io) to develop Verilog-based systems (there's also a VHDL frontend now AFAIK) for Xilinx 7-Series, Lattice iCE40 and ECP5 FPGAs directly on macOS. For symbiflow, I would recommend a Lattice-based board such as the ulx3s (https://radiona.org/ulx3s/) or icesugar-pro (https://github.com/wuxx/icesugar-pro), but the Xilinx Arty-7 boards also seem to be supported now.
In Ask HN: Getting Started with FPGAs on macOS

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