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Wow! This is really cool, thank you for open sourcing this! Do you have any posts talking about how you got started with FPGAs? I'm a SWE and want to get into t
by gravypod 6y ago
Wow! This is really cool, thank you for open sourcing this! Do you have any posts talking about how you got started with FPGAs? I'm a SWE and want to get into this area. Your language seems to map directly to what I was sort of expecting to see in the HDL/VHDL world but wasn't finding. You're making me want to buy a VGA monitor and an iCE.
- nickmqb 6y agoJust do it ;). I don't have a blog post on how I got started, but you gave me the idea that perhaps I should write one. In terms of hardware, I'm using an iCEBreaker dev board [1] which has worked really well (A nice bonus is that the board has a 16MB flash chip, which can be used for storage -- this is what the Minecraft clone uses to load the map and textures from on startup). On the software side, I'm using the open source yosys/nextpnr/icestorm toolchain which is a lot faster than the vendor supplied tools. I mostly figured things out by just trying stuff, so a high iteration speed definitely helped here! [1] https://1bitsquared.com/products/icebreaker https://1bitsquared.com/products/icebreaker
- ngcc_hk 6y agoDefinitely write one. Wait for it. It would be great.