The icoBOARD contains
a Lattice FPGA with 8k LUT, 100MHz max clock, up
to 8 MBit of SRAM and is programmable in Verilog by a
complete open source FPGA toolchain.
The icoTC (toolchain consisting of
Yosys and ArachnePnR and icetools) for the Lattice ICE40
series does support all chip components like
PLLs, Block RAMs, the WARMBOOT
macro, dedicated carry logic, and IO blocks. The icoBoard
is pincompatible with the RaspberryPi 2B, newer versions
and any board using the same pinout. The icoTC can
generate bitstream-files directly on the
RaspberryPi.
The icoBoard can also be operated
standalone without RaspberrPi. Up to 200 IO Pins
or 20 PMOD modules can be connected to the icoBOARD. 3
flatflex connectors are available to connect additional
boards.
For people already having an icoBoard_Beta, please see
this
page.
News
September 2016: icoBoards 1.1 are available with 8 MBit
SRAM
July 2016: 100 icoBoards1.0 have been manufactured are
are available for purchase.
AJune 2016: We will present icoBoard at FPGA
Kongress in Munich on 14th of July 2016
June 2016: icoBoard 1.0 is
available now for 90 Euro
June 2016: We did port Contiki 2.0 to our Risc-V SoC
running on the icoBoard
Feb 2016: BQ, the spanish mobilephone manufacturer, is
building a Lattice based Arduinoboard using the icoTC.
Feb 2016: The first commercial product using the icoTC
will be the Wiggleport
Feb 2016: Designwin. Olimex will manufacture
FPGA Boards with Lattice FPGAs using icoTC.
Feb 2016: Silego Technologies as a
manufacturer of programmable chips will work with us to
support their chips in our toolchain.
Feb 2016: You want to work on a Verilog project during
"Google Summer of Code" using Yosys and ArachnePnR? Get
in contact with us.
Jan 2016: We will be at Embedded World in Nürnberg from
23-26 Feb
Jan 2016: We will be at Fosem 2016 in Brussels
Link
Jan 2016: Clifford managed to finalize the timing
analysis for the FPGA:
Jan 2016: We are shipping out Beta boards to developers
Dec 2015: Hackeraday features Clifford
Dec 2015: Clifford did his presentation at 32c3
