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Offline dmyTopic starter

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siliconblue/lattice iCE65L04 anyone ?
« on: June 19, 2014, 09:37:09 am »
hello people,
recently I'm playing around with my DSOquad, reimplementing the firmware for fun: while getting the various parts to work, I came to the limitations of the current FPGA configuration, so I need to reconfigure it.

the problem is, I can't find any tool to synthesize/place/route this particular model:
I tried the most recent icecube2, which is free, but it seems to works only with iCE40 ...

I gave a look to what chips the other commercial tools can work with, but the tools I had access to where marketed years before the release date of the chip, hence no support.

as a sidenote, in the icecube2 config files there are commented sections for the '65, so I tried by uncommenting them, but could be that simple ? surely not !  :)
in fact, icecube2 can now work with it, checking/compiling my verilog, but once it passes data (the netlist, I think ?) to its synthesis backend it stops, because it's a stripped down version of synplify pro and it doesn't know the chip ... so now I'm stuck.

which tools (even commercial) support this particular chip ?
 

Offline andersm

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Re: siliconblue/lattice iCE65L04 anyone ?
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2014, 10:02:26 am »
AFAIK Lattice killed the iCE65 almost immediately after acquiring Silicon Blue, so you're probably out of luck, at least as far as free tools are concerned.

Offline dmyTopic starter

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Re: siliconblue/lattice iCE65L04 anyone ?
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2014, 08:23:08 am »

these are sad news ... I won't surrender though.
I'll try to politely ask lattice or seeedstudio, surely it won't hurt.

thanks for the reply
 


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