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Welcome to Icestudio Documentation wiki!

Digital Design for OpenSource FPGAs made easy: icestudio.io

Introduction

Icestudio is a design tool focused on new comers to the FPGA world

  • Step 1: Draw your circuit

  • Step 2: Upload it to your favorite OpenSource FPGA board

  • Step 3: Done! 😀️

Icestudio generates Verilog files from your visual circuits, build the Bitstream automatically and upload it to your FPGA board. This process is done using only Opensource Tools (Thanks to the Symbiflow project)

Getting Started

Collections

The collections are a groups of folders containing blocks, examples, translations and images compressed into a .ZIP file. You can learn more about their organization on this wiki section: Organization of the collections

The Collections can be created, added or removed anytime. By default, there is only one collection available when Icestudio is first installed: The default collection. It contains basic examples and basic components like logic gates, multiplexers and so on

There are much more collections available that you can install easilly. The stable collections have been translated into English and the documentation is available on the wiki. The development collections are a work in progress and their blocks can be completelly redesigned

You can find more information on the collections on the following links. The IceK collection is the one used as a reference. Contains many examples for different board as well as detailed instrucctions on how to install it, translate it or contributing to it. Check its documentation for learning more

Stable

Development

Developers

Help

Notes

Home Page

Getting started

Collections

  • Default: Icestudio Default Collection

Stable

Development

  • IceBoards: blocks and examples for the diferent FPGA boards
  • IceComp: Comparators
  • IceArith: Integer arithmetics
  • IceCounter: Counters
  • IceSignals: 1-bit signal managment
  • IcePLL: PLLs
  • IceLEDOscope: Measuring signals
  • IceLEDs: Displaying on LEDs
  • IceHearts: Timming signal generation
  • IceInputs: 1-bit inputs
  • IceRok: Block probes for Icestudio => Sigrok integration (with Pulseview GUI)
  • IceMachines: Working with Machines (simple state machines with a standar interface)
  • IceSerial: Serial Asynchronous communications
  • IceMem: Working with Memories
  • IceMeasure: Measuring cycles and time in your circuits, very easily
  • IceStack: Working with stacks
  • IceFlash: Read from spi serial flash memories
  • IceBus: Accesing and sharing simple buses
  • IceLCD: Components and controllers for LCDs
  • IceUnary: Working with unary numbers
  • IceCrystal: Drive displays from Open Source FPGAs
  • ice-chips-verilog: IceChips is a library of all common discrete logic devices in Verilog
  • ArithmeticBlocks: FPGA signed and unsigned integer operations, 16, 24 and 32 bits, + - * / sqrt min max compare etc.
  • iceSynth: Audio synthesis
  • icebreaker: Blocks and examples for the icebreaker OpenFPGA board
  • Jedi: blocks of the FPGA Jedi hardware Academy
  • LOVE-FPGA: Hardware elements and examples for the LOVE-FPGA project (Linking Of Virtual Electronics to FPGAs)
  • Stdio: Standard Input-Output in different devices
  • CT11: Ejemplos del cuaderno ténico 11: Señales del sistema y Medición con el LEDOscopio
  • Generic: Icestudio Generic Collection
  • Logic: Icestudio Logic Collection
  • IceInterface: Serial, SPI, I2C... (TODO)

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