Lattice Semiconductor Evaluation Board, Icestick, Ice40 Fpga - ICE40HX1K-STICK-EVN
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The images they provide of the item in question do not accurately depict a Lattice IceStick. I would avoid this specific item because the pictures appear to be trying to sell you a cryptocurrency card. That was the only thing I got when I bought the IceStick, along with a small pamphlet about the Lattice website and downloads.
Project icestorm provides open source tools, so I bought it. Officially, Lattice has icecube2, but the vendors' FPGA tools are all terrible.
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Why did I go to Amazon and buy the Lattice ICE40HX1K evaluation stick? First and foremost, a desire to learn VHDL; Second, Lattice is an excellent organization. Third, there is a lot of help from Lattice and online user groups. Customers interested in the ICE40HX1K on Amazon go to YouTube to get a feel for the programming and get feedback from experts. So far, I've managed to get a few LEDs to blink by following one of Lattice's instructions - I felt like Neil Armstrong, the Great American and Explorer, who once said, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind," on July 2, 1969.
If you're interested in learning more about FPGAs, this is a good place to start. On a Mac or Linux computer, you can use an open toolchain (icestorm) to get started developing for free. Although the FPGA is small, some open source projects (such as the J1a processor) can be run on it. To get started with Verilog, I'd recommend picking up a book ("Verilog by Example") and looking through the Lattice documentation and some of the other open source projects (search github for "ice40").
) This is a fantastic little device. has open source FPGA tools (which are much easier to use than Xilinx's 20-step process). Installation takes 40 GB of data to download.
This is small in FPGA terms, but it's a great learning tool. Icestorm is a free and open-source tool chain.
There aren't a lot of gates, but it's a cheap little fpga that can handle some basic tasks.
I really like this, and I've learned a lot from it. a great deal out of it It can be programmed directly from the USB port. It's a little bulky, and I'd print a case to protect the board from ESD, but it's an excellent starter device. I can't say enough about how much I liked it.
FPGA with a lot of documentation and projects available online at a low price.
It's ideal for learning Verilog using open source tools.
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