Subnostr

Verilog is like C but VHDL is some abomination that is like C++ and Java

You should absolutely use FuseSoC. It makes it *very* easy to interface with whatever tools of your choice + package management of sorts.

Currently developing for an iCE40 UP5K with Verilog, so Yosys for synthesis and nextpnr/icestorm for the FPGA bitstream generation.

iCE40 UltraPlus is nice as they are pretty cheap, they have 1024Kbit in 4 large RAM blocks, and a RE’d open source toolchain that works great.

If you insist on using VHDL there is this: https://github.com/ghdl/ghdl-yosys-plugin

ChipTuner 1y ago

Thanks for the info!

I want to use whatever is more professional/industry standard which first getting out of school seemed to be verilog for most places I was looking at. Got a job doing firmware (sort of) and never haven't touched the stuff since except for some playing around hobby stuff. Taught myself atmel because most of the aftermarket technology in automotive uses atmel.

I have an iCE40 board. Their loader tool for Windows was super buggy (threading stuff) I patched it but never submitted a PR. I wonder if they fixed it.

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semisol 1y ago

Also, it’s less the language more concepts. But a lot more things support Verilog afaik.

semisol 1y ago

Please check your DMs

ChipTuner 1y ago

I don't have working DMs yet sorry. I can drop a simplex link if you're interested

https://www.vaughnnugent.com/resources/software/modules/noscrypt-issues?id=58

semisol 1y ago

That was what I DMed you about… :)

Do you use Signal or TG or Matrix instead?

semisol 1y ago

SimpleX works too though