Re:FPGAs Have the Wrong Abstraction for Computing
by _iiu1 on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @04:01AM
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Leaving aside the fact that open source toolchains exist for various Lattice FPGA's (the ice-40 and ecp5 etc)
About the simplest environment for doing what you just described is http://papilio.cc/
While using the existing Xilinx Webpack tools for actual synthesis, place and routing, etc. the Papilio Design-IDE will LITERALLY let you add peripherals to virtual Arduino like appendages!
It takes advantage of a number of community projects like the Wishbone bus, and achieves a nearly drag-n-drop level of visual design tool.
Once you have loaded your custom arduino chip onto the papilio boards FPGA you can program it with a modified version of the Arduino IDE!!!!
One of their virtual chips you can start with IS the arduino atmega 328!
Another is the ZPU-ino, an implementation of the Zylin ZPU (a 32bit mcu) done by Alvie Boy that allows you to program this much more powerful device ALSO by the Arduino IDE!
About the simplest environment for doing what you just described is http://papilio.cc/
While using the existing Xilinx Webpack tools for actual synthesis, place and routing, etc. the Papilio Design-IDE will LITERALLY let you add peripherals to virtual Arduino like appendages! It takes advantage of a number of community projects like the Wishbone bus, and achieves a nearly drag-n-drop level of visual design tool.
Once you have loaded your custom arduino chip onto the papilio boards FPGA you can program it with a modified version of the Arduino IDE!!!!
One of their virtual chips you can start with IS the arduino atmega 328! Another is the ZPU-ino, an implementation of the Zylin ZPU (a 32bit mcu) done by Alvie Boy that allows you to program this much more powerful device ALSO by the Arduino IDE!