Hi there,

This is great news, as a replacement for archne-pnr !

Any intention/idea/knowledge about packaging also Project X-ray. Indeed there 
are also quite some «small» FPGA boards based on Artix-7 which would be very 
nice to be able to use through a completely open-source and packaged workflow ?

Amongst others, the ZTEX boards or some digilent boards … relatively not so 
expensive hardware with more powerful FPGA (including DSP, BRAM… slices).

Cheers,

Serge.

> Le 14 mai 2020 à 19:19, Nathaniel Graff <nathaniel.gr...@sifive.com> a écrit :
> 
> Package: wnpp
> Owner: Nathaniel Graff <nathaniel.gr...@sifive.com>
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-scie...@lists.debian.org
> 
> * Package name    : nextpnr
>  Version         : 0~2020507gitfaf07a
>  Upstream Author :
>   Claire Wolf <cliff...@symbioticeda.com>
>   David Shah <da...@symbioticeda.com>
>   Dan Gisselquist <d...@symbioticeda.com>
>   Serge Bazanski <q...@symbioticeda.com>
>   Miodrag Milanovic <miod...@symbioticeda.com>
>   Eddie Hung <edd...@ece.ubc.ca>
> * URL             : https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr
> * License         : ISC
>  Programming Lang: C++
>  Description     : FPGA place-and-route tool
> 
> nextpnr is a vendor-neutral, timing-driven, FOSS FPGA place-and-route
> tool. It is the successor to arachne-pnr, which is no longer maintained.
> Including nextpnr in Debian will allow current users of yosys and
> fpga-icestorm to make use of the latest development on the YosysHQ FPGA
> toolchain for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs.
> 
> This initial packaging effort will create three binary packages:
> - nextpnr-generic
> - nextpnr-ice40
> - nextpnr-ice40-qt
> 
> These binary packages span two different FPGA architectures (a generic
> target and Lattice iCE40 FPGAs) and a version for iCE40 FPGAs which
> features a Qt GUI.
> 
> Since nextpnr can be extended to support additional FPGA architectures
> (unlike its predecessor arachne-pnr), future work can extend this
> initial effort to support FPGA architectures like Lattice ECP5 and
> Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs using Project Trellis and Project X-Ray.
> 
> Keith Packard has offered to sponsor the upload.
> 
> Ongoing packaging effort is taking place on Salsa:
> https://salsa.debian.org/nategraff-guest/nextpnr
> 

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