On 12/09/2016 06:35 AM, Joel Holdsworth wrote: > The Lattice iCE40 is a family of FPGAs with a minimalistic architecture > and very regular structure, designed for low-cost, high-volume consumer > and system applications. > > This patch adds support to the FPGA manager for configuring the SRAM of > iCE40LM, iCE40LP, iCE40HX, iCE40 Ultra, iCE40 UltraLite and iCE40 > UltraPlus devices, through slave SPI. > > The iCE40 family is notable because it is the first FPGA family to have > complete reverse engineered bit-stream documentation for the iCE40LP and > iCE40HX devices. Furthermore, there is now a Free Software Verilog > synthesis tool-chain: the "IceStorm" tool-chain. > > This project is the work of Clifford Wolf, who is the maintainer of > Yosys Verilog RTL synthesis framework, and Mathias Lasser, with notable > contributions from "Cotton Seed", the main author of "arachne-pnr"; a > place-and-route tool for iCE40 FPGAs. > > Having a Free Software synthesis tool-chain offers interesting > opportunities for embedded devices that are able reconfigure themselves > with open firmware that is generated on the device itself. For example > a mobile device might have an application processor with an iCE40 FPGA > attached, which implements slave devices, or through which the processor > communicates with other devices through the FPGA fabric. > > A kernel driver for the iCE40 is useful, because in some cases, the FPGA > may need to be configured before other devices can be accessed. > > An example of such a device is the icoBoard; a RaspberryPI HAT which > features an iCE40HX8K with a 1 or 8 MBit SRAM and ports for > Digilent-compatible PMOD modules. A PMOD module may contain a device > with which the kernel communicates, via the FPGA. > > Signed-off-by: Joel Holdsworth <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut <marex@xxxxxxx> -- Best regards, Marek Vasut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
