Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table

Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by zerohp on Saturday July 30, 2016 @03:19PM (#12194288)

This chip from Lattice is supported by icestorm. It is the only open source FPGA tool chain.

http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by rvense on Saturday July 30, 2016 @06:58PM (#12195015)

And I think you'll find this is the exact reason the iCE40s are showing up in so many hobbyist projects.

I'm at my hackerspace right now. There's three people with HX8K evaluation boards at this table alone (I've got two, actually). None of us have even downloaded the Lattice tools.

I've got the HX8K eval board doing text over VGA at 1280x1024 with a simple home-etched PCB that plus into it and some very naive code, hope to hit 1920x1080... It's a lot of fun. The toolchain has some niggles, but overall it's extremely pleasant and I'm so happy it exists. I've been wanting to work with programmable logic for a few years since getting into electronics, but I've just not got along with the Xilinx and Altera tools.

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by ElaineB on Saturday July 30, 2016 @11:18PM (#12195594)

If you read the blogpost on #myStorm that describes the hardware https://folknologylabs.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/a-perfect-st...

It sounds like this board is going to be available for $30 and you add your own Rasp-Pi - but the $5 Pi-Zero plugs straight in on the end of the board.

There's an ARM M3 acting as FPGA programmer, GPIO, ADC and up to 512K bytes of fast SRAM on the flip-side of the board.

For $30 that seems a bargain!

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Re:Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table by jacquesm on Sunday July 31, 2016 @05:59AM (#12196307)

Are you somehow associated with this project? It's the only story you posted and each and every comment associated with this account plugs that board.

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