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Reputation:

Generate bitstream without vendor specific IDE

What I am trying to achieve is to synthesize very simplistic vhdl to bitstream and test on a proto board.

Actually language does not matter. Anyone achieved so far so that you can directly generate bit from any form of code without the requirement of running vendor specific IDE’s ?

I stumbled upon within my search-foo skills but wanted to ask you guys before I desperately give each option a try unless someone reports success with some of the options.

I know this can be done because I compiled and synthed petalinux from scratch and got a fully functional bitstream. Now I am just trying to experiment on simplistic approaches.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 399

Answers (1)

Vlad
Vlad

Reputation: 5847

If you're talking about fpga configuration bistream, then building it without vendor tools is only possible if you have the knowledge of the hardware that will consume that bitstream. The major vendors won't release the knowledge about their fpga internals, so building configuration bistream is not really feasible.

There are open source projects aiming at reverse engineering some simplest fpga and providing tools, but so far I'm only aware of IceStorm, targeting Lattice iCE40 family of fpga.

Upvotes: 2

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