FPGAwars / Icestudio

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

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

For more information visit our site icestudio.io

Supported boards

HX1K

HX8K

LP8K

UP5K

Installation

You can install stable or nightly Icestudio versions.

Because Icestudio is in development proccess, until it rises to 1.0 version, we are recommending to install nightly Icestudio versions, that have the latest features.

• GNU/Linux

  1. Install Python >= 3.5 and xclip
  2. For stable version, download and execute the AppImage
  3. For nightly version, download it from icestudio.io

• Windows

  1. For stable version, download and execute the Windows installer
  2. For nightly version, download it from icestudio.io

• Mac OS

  1. Install Python >= 3.5 and Homebrew
  2. For stable version, download and execute the DMG package
  3. For nightly version, download it from icestudio.io

Check the Documentation for more information.

Development

Install Python >= 3.5 and Node.js, for windows developers nodejs version should be 10.17.x

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
Italian
French
Dutch
Czech
Greek
German
Russian
Chinese
Galician
Basque
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

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 [email protected] 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.

Development Team

• Jesús Arroyo Torrens, creator Github page
• Carlos Venegas Arrabé,concepts and development Github page
• Juan González Gómez, concepts and testing Github page

Contributors

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.