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

[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:

  http://research.cs.berkeley.edu/project/slipway/

Again, it's nowhere close to production-ready, but there are already a
lot of doors opening up: programmatic access to the inner PAR loop (ie
incremental runs) plus partial reconfiguration is a very powerful
combination.

More to come.

  - a

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