Request guide to program FPGA board with generic Arduino

OLIMEX / iCE40HX1K-EVB

FPGA development board made with KiCAD

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Request guide to program FPGA board with generic Arduino #2

Closed electronut closed 7 years ago

electronut commented 7 years ago

The current documentation assumes that Olimexduino is used as a programmer with the custom cable.

This board would be much more user friendly if some guidance was provided on making it work with a generic Arduino - for example an Arduino Pro Mini.

DanKoloff commented 7 years ago

OLIMEXINO-328 is quite generic. It is quite similar to Arduino UNO R3. You can use the guide as a reference and use any Arduino board. Furthermore, it looks like Arduino Pro Mini is a retired product: https://store.arduino.cc/arduino-pro-mini

electronut commented 7 years ago

Pro Mini clones are still widely used. I also tried with an Arduino Uno + level shifter, but was unable to make it work. I'll try some more and post my results.

I've seen someone using Raspberry Pi's SPI ports with icestorm tools to program this board. Any help there would be very useful as well.

I think having multiple options to program this board could be very helpful. Thanks.

electronut commented 7 years ago

I really wish some sort of programmer (USB/SPI or serial) was embedded in this board. At this point I've given up and am getting the dev board from Lattice.