elektor-labs/icestudio

:snowflake: Visual editor for open FPGA boards

Visual editor for open FPGA boards. Built on top of the Icestorm project using Apio.

Graphic design -> Verilog, PCF -> Bistream -> FPGA

Supported boards

HX1K

Board name	Interface
IceZUM Alhambra	FTDI
Nandland Go board	FTDI
iCEstick Evaluation Kit	FTDI

HX8K

Board name	Interface
Alhambra II	FTDI
BlackIce	Serial
BlackIce II	Serial
icoBOARD 1.0	GPIO RPi
Kéfir I iCE40-HX4K	FTDI
iCE40-HX8K Breakout Board	FTDI

LP8K

Board name	Interface
TinyFPGA B2	Serial
TinyFPGA BX	Serial

Installation

• GNU/Linux

  1. Install Python 2.7 and xclip
  2. Download and execute the AppImage

• Windows

  1. Download and execute the Windows installer

• Mac OS

  1. Install Python 2.7 and Homebrew
  2. Download and execute the DMG package

Check the Documentation for more information.

Development

Install Python 2.7 and Node.js.

Atom editor with linter-jshint is recommended.

If you want to add blocks or examples, please contribute to icestudio-blocks, icestudio-examples or collection-default.

Download

git clone https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio.git
cd icestudio

Install

npm install

Execute

npm start

Languages

Language	Translated strings
English
Spanish
French
Galician
German
Basque
Chinese
Catalan

Contribute!

Add or update the app translations using Poedit.

Developer note: use npm run gettext to extract the labels from the code.

Documentation

cd docs
make html
firefox _build/html/index.html

Package

npm run dist

Target OS	Development OS	Output files
GNU/Linux	GNU/Linux	(linux32,linux64).zip, (linux32,linux64).AppImage
Windows	GNU/Linux	(win32,win64).zip, (win32,win64).exe
Mac OS	Mac OS	(osx32,osx64).zip, osx64.dmg

Apio configuration

Apio backend is configured in the app/package.json file:

• apio.min: minimum version (>=)
• apio.max: maximum version (<)
• apio.extras: list of external Python programmers (blackiceprog, tinyfpgab)
• apio.external: load an external Apio package instead of the default one (e.g. /path/to/my/apio)
• apio.branch: install Apio from the repository branch instead of PyPI.

An external Apio package can be also set on runtime using the ICESTUDIO_APIO environment variable.

Troubleshooting

If you get this error npm ERR! peerinvalid The package grunt@1.0.1 does not satisfy its siblings' peerDependencies requirements!, try to update your nodejs or execute:

npm update -g

More information

Roadmap

There is a Wishlist in the wiki with the features proposed by the Community. If you want to contribute with new features and ideas write in the Google Group.

We use the GitHub issues to track the work and schedule our new features and improvements.

Authors

• Jesús Arroyo Torrens

Contributors

Version	Contributors
0.3	Lorea-Aldabaldetreku, Carlos Díaz, Martoni, Xoan Sampaiño, Unai, Francisco Sayas, Pascal Cotret, Juan Jose Luna Espinosa, Salvador E. Tropea, redbeard, Eladio Delgado, Philipp van Kempen
0.2	Tomás Calvo, Juan González (Obijuan), Carlos Díaz, Xoan Sampaiño, Salvador E. Tropea, Democrito, Martoni, Pascal Cotret
0.1	Miguel Sánchez de León Peque

Credits

• FPGAwars community has developed this project in a voluntary and altruistic way since 02/2017.

  

• BQ sponsored this project from 02/2016 to 02/2017. Thanks

License

Licensed under GPL 2.0 and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.