Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table

Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by papower on Saturday July 30, 2016 @02:01PM (#12193958)

They have an intro to the myStorm board at https://folknologylabs.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/a-perfect-st...:

"myStorm is the perfect combination of a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero, a $1, 32-bit ARM microcontroller and a $5 versatile low power FPGA – an open hardware platform – brought to life with innovative open source software."

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by ElaineB on Saturday July 30, 2016 @03:24PM (#12194313)

In response to Joshu - I don't think this is a Kickstarter Campaign - I get it's two guys in the UK doing this off their own backs - and in record time - design on laptop to working board prototype in less than 2 weeks - with the pcbs made in Shenzhen China, in under a week. There on Twitter under #myStorm - if you want to check them out

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by wott on Saturday July 30, 2016 @04:06PM (#12194467)

> - and in record time - design on laptop to working board prototype in less than 2 weeks

Well, it looks like there are 3 chips, a usual DC-DC converter, and that's all :-)

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by ElaineB on Saturday July 30, 2016 @11:09PM (#12195570)

If you search around the communities - there's an STM32duino forum where the EagleCAD design files for #myStorm have been placed http://www.stm32duino.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1276#p16407

It looks like they have 512K bytes of 10nS SRAM on the back of the board - but it's neat how the $5 Rapberry Pi-Zero plugs in at one end - some cool overall pics on Twitter if you search #myStorm

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by joshu on Sunday July 31, 2016 @04:09AM (#12196137)

Suggesting someone search Twitter for a hashtag is not really good documentation. Maybe a link to a top level project page somewhere would be helpful.

I have been wanting to build a smaller project around an fpga so I am very excited about this, if they plan to sell it.

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by cottonseed on Saturday July 30, 2016 @05:07PM (#12194712)

Unfortunately IceStorm has only reverse engineered the 1K and 8K, not the 4K.

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by cliffordvienna on Sunday July 31, 2016 @10:53AM (#12197206)

There is no 4K die. The 4K chips are using 8K dies, the lattice software limits the number of usable LUTs to 4K. IceStorm will give you access to all 8K LUTs in the device.

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by cottonseed on Sunday July 31, 2016 @11:47AM (#12197418)

I didn't realize that. Thanks for clarifying, Clifford!

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by ElaineB on Saturday July 30, 2016 @11:14PM (#12195583)

Really? On the http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/ IceStorm site - If you look carefully at the table of supported devices - the ICE40HX4K-144 is there - 2 rows from the bottom

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by rwmj on Sunday July 31, 2016 @01:18AM (#12195837)

Am I right in thinking 8K refers to the number of LUTs/cells? If so I won't be fitting the Rocket RISC-V design in one any time soon. Although it's a good start - I'll be very happy to see the back of Xilinx Vivado awfulness one day.

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by cliffordvienna on Sunday July 31, 2016 @11:01AM (#12197244)

PicoRV32 (https://github.com/cliffordwolf/picorv32) and ORCA (https://github.com/VectorBlox/orca) are two RISC-V implementations that nicely fit in ~2000 iCE40 LUTs. UCB-BAR V-Scale (https://github.com/ucb-bar/vscale) fits in ~4000 iCE40 LUTs.

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by edwintorok on Sunday July 31, 2016 @03:09AM (#12196041)

There is a Pico Risc-V that fits in ~2000 LUTs that can be built for the ice40: https://github.com/cliffordwolf/picorv32 https://github.com/cliffordwolf/picorv32/blob/master/scripts...

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by cottonseed on Sunday July 31, 2016 @11:48AM (#12197421)

I stand corrected. See Clifford's other comment in this thread.

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by ElaineB on Saturday July 30, 2016 @03:27PM (#12194324)

In what way would it be better? Two guys doing something cool - what do you want? It's all opens source - you go make one in 10 days!

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by joshu on Sunday July 31, 2016 @04:08AM (#12196132)

Btw, calm the hostility - I was complaining about the context-free blog post. The project seems interesting.

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by joshu on Sunday July 31, 2016 @01:42AM (#12195880)

It's just a blog post without context or details on the project? Etc

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by CamperBob2 on Saturday July 30, 2016 @04:03PM (#12194458)

If a tree grows in the forest but no one sees it, is it there at all?

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