Is there a plan to support other FPGA than Lattice ?

[Martoni]

The name of icestudio is oriented for ice40. But is there plan to support other platforms ?
I wonder if it's easy to port icestudio for armadeus platforms apf27 (xilinx spartan3a), apf51 (xilinx spartan6) and apf6_sp (Altera/intel CycloneV) ?
Of course, there is no open-source toolchain to synthetize for it, but maybe we can do somethings to drive close-source tools ?

[Jesus89]

Hi,

We are using open source tools for FPGAs (http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/) through apio (https://github.com/FPGAwars/apio). All future Icestorm-supported FPGAs could be integrated.

Icestudio will evolve towards a more hackable editor. Almost everything is possible. Just edit the compiler to generate pcf-like files for specific FPGA and try to generate the bitstream in the console using privative-tools. Other solution could be to use Icestudio only to generate the verilog sources and then import those files to a privative editor.

We won't explore privative-tools integration, but maybe another one does.

[Martoni]

Ok, thanks.