Re: gEDA-user: [icarus] completely open source fpga toolchain

2007-07-28 Thread John Griessen
Adam Megacz wrote: I believe we now have the first-ever instance of a design being taken through a 100% open-source flow, all the way from verilog to blinking lights on a programmed device. Thanks for reporting this here. I'm interested in using your devel board to get introduced to using

Re: gEDA-user: [icarus] completely open source fpga toolchain

2007-07-28 Thread Dave McGuire
On Jul 28, 2007, at 6:05 PM, John Griessen wrote: I believe we now have the first-ever instance of a design being taken through a 100% open- source flow, all the way from verilog to blinking lights on a programmed device. Thanks for reporting this here. I'm interested in using your

Re: gEDA-user: [icarus] completely open source fpga toolchain

2007-07-27 Thread Adam Megacz
Please bear in mind that this is only an 8-bit ripple-carry adder, and the tools are still quite crude, but I believe we now have the first-ever instance of a design being taken through a 100% open-source flow, all the way from verilog to blinking lights on a programmed device. Details are here:

Re: gEDA-user: [icarus] completely open source fpga toolchain

2007-05-24 Thread Adam Megacz
Stephen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The v0.8 releases of Icarus Verilog have decent synthesis. The synthesis is not at all Xilinx specific, but the code generators are. But they needn't be. The FPGA target generates EDIF, so if your intermediate form takes EDIF, the way to move forward

Re: gEDA-user: [icarus] completely open source fpga toolchain

2007-05-24 Thread Adam Megacz
Stephen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The v0.8 releases of Icarus Verilog have decent synthesis. The synthesis is not at all Xilinx specific, but the code generators are. But they needn't be. The FPGA target generates EDIF, so if your intermediate form takes EDIF, the way to move forward

Re: gEDA-user: [icarus] completely open source fpga toolchain

2007-05-24 Thread Stephen Williams
Adam Megacz wrote: Stephen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The v0.8 releases of Icarus Verilog have decent synthesis. The synthesis is not at all Xilinx specific, but the code generators are. But they needn't be. The FPGA target generates EDIF, so if your intermediate form takes EDIF, the

Re: gEDA-user: [icarus] completely open source fpga toolchain

2007-05-24 Thread Adam Megacz
Stephen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One difficulty, though: the primitive cells that iverilog emits are pretty complex. Is there any way to ask it to break down multipliers and adders into stuff no larger than a LUT4? The reason it generates at that level is that in some cases it is

gEDA-user: [icarus] completely open source fpga toolchain

2007-05-03 Thread Adam Megacz
So, now that the abits work is published [1] I plan on turning my attention to connecting the dots, so to speak. I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I'll have to implement PAR by hand (VPR has licensing issues, and there are far more architecture-portable algorithms now anyways