iCEcube2 is free again! License policy changed back to support the FPGA community!

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Lattice has heard the complaints of the FPGA community and restored FREE license for educators, hobbyists, and hackers like us! Wooo!
License can be requested here (send them an email with your MAC address): www.latticesemi.com/iCEcube2#...
Support me by picking up "Getting Started with FPGAs" on Amazon, and leave a review if you have purchased and enjoyed the book!
www.amazon.com/Getting-Starte...
Pick up a Go Board here: nandland.com/the-go-board/
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@sohampramanik5790 2 ай бұрын

Damn..the channel is still alive

@Hfgh564 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Russell!

@CraigHollabaugh 2 ай бұрын

Good news. Thanks for the update.

@thomasparker4109 2 ай бұрын

yeay u come back!

@alecsei393ify 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@jinglejangle4653 2 ай бұрын

The lattice licensing form tells you to specify License Type (Node-locked or Floating). What should we choose?

@aarondcmedia9585 2 ай бұрын

Congrats, great work

@NivagSwerdna 2 ай бұрын

Yay! That's good news.

@darronvanaria2952 2 ай бұрын

Hey! Nice to see a new video: really enjoying the book- I’ll leave a review on Amazon pointing out that the IDE is free again. I’d love to see a video on what you think of the current state of the embedded/fpga industry. I’m trying to break in- are companies hiring novice FPGA programmers? Are you currently still working professionally in FPGA work?

@freeelectron8261 2 ай бұрын

Excellent news! Thanks all you guys who helped make icecube2 free again! I will leave a review on Amazon. And I don't have the book yet :)

@davidsimpson7292 2 ай бұрын

FYI for 5/14/24, I'm still seeing subscription on Lattice's website for the iCE40 LP/HX/LM. I can't get the software to download either. I can't find the free license request page where it used to be. I'm still investigating though.

@justincoon7971 2 ай бұрын

this is the best news of the decade

@djsbriscoe 11 күн бұрын

Does your NANDLAND GO board ship to the UK? Are they in stock and can they be ordered on the NANDLAND website?

@gimpel18 2 ай бұрын

hello. and in your first lesson on the site ("Tutorial: Your First FPGA Program: An LED Blinker. Part 1: Design of VHDL or Verilog"), where do you connect the frequency output? could you tell us more about how you perform frequency division in this example.

@thesnax9177 21 күн бұрын

Hi! I:m really interested in getting started with FPGAs, and your channel looks promising. I:m just concerned the channel is coming to a close (not your fault! life happens and changes!) Do you have any plans to continue the channel or tutorials with the NANDLand Go Board?

@DreamVladKo 2 ай бұрын

Ура!

@archieengineer9942 29 күн бұрын

Yes fpga engineer

@Polprzewodnikowy 2 ай бұрын

FPGA design software is still a joke in year 2024, no matter if it's from big players (Xilinx/Altera/Lattice) or lesser known like Efinix. Every single one FPGA manufacturer has this stupid license requirement that can change at any time, because they know there are no alternatives. And Lattice actually proved this can and *will* happen eventually. I have a Lattice Diamond project designed for the MachXO2 and I'm now concerned that I might some day just lose any ability to work on it. I still need to renew "free license" for Diamond every year. I really wish they were forced to publish all relevant documentation so free open source software could do better job than manufacturers. Not to mention Diamond being so bad and behind any other tool that doing any timing analysis is the worst nightmare. Yosys and everything around it is very promising but it obviously doesn't support anything less popular. I can just imagine how hard is to reverse engineer bitstreams for every single new FPGA family. Huge kudos for anyone who's doing this without documentation from the manufacturer.

@lawrencemanning 2 ай бұрын

They shouldn’t be forced to do anything, that’s crazy. It’s all property owned by them. It’s just how it is and needs to be factored into the business (or otherwise) risk. It’s exactly the same for other types of tech like MCUs or even folks writing “modern” cloud web applications. I use Yosys for my projects. Previously I used quartus. This is just hobby stuff. I wish Yosys was available for older Altera parts, but I’ll use it where I can, as everyone should.

@Polprzewodnikowy 2 ай бұрын

Sorry but I strongly disagree, especially when you mention MCUs. I can use GCC based toolchain with vast majority of microcontrollers, all I need is memory map and peripheral documentation. FPGAs are nowhere near this level of freedom because bitstream format is just a black box, not documented at all. But this will never change with the "protecting the business" mentality. Other industries already adopted open source technology to a great benefit. Wish this will happen to the FPGA industry.

@lawrencemanning 2 ай бұрын

It was only your bit about being forced into a particular behaviour I disagree with. The free market doesn’t work like that. What I don’t understand is how they are damaged by releasing this information, but it’s for them to choose as it is their property. We are still in a much better situation than we were a decade ago with this stuff. There was literally no alternate than proprietary software, for any programmable logic part. Maybe eventually they will see the logic in open sourcing these tools.

@FirstLast-ih6ec Ай бұрын

Russel, why did you go with iCECube2 and not with apio which also supports the go-board?

@Nandland Ай бұрын

apio works great too but it's only for Verilog users. Can't leave VHDL out.

@FirstLast-ih6ec Ай бұрын

Is the Goboard open source? (e.g.schematic).

@Nandland Ай бұрын

Schematic is available at the bottom of this page: nandland.com/go-board-tutorials/

@melovescotch 2 ай бұрын

Lattice lost my trust....

@ABB1046-real 5 күн бұрын

Now they just need to make ispLever free again

@magnuswootton6181 2 ай бұрын

yay fpgas! how to wip a gpus ass.

@ksbs2036 2 ай бұрын

It was such a stupid move to charge for the software. I'm sure they started to see orders for their devices dry up. And so many students would become familiar with Xilinx or Altera instead so they would have lost future orders

@SvenneKrap 2 ай бұрын

What about a updated f4pga tutorial due to the occasion? Close source tools (even when temprarily at no cost) always have this risk, that is why I am so pro open-source...

@lawrencemanning 2 ай бұрын

Yup. I can’t say anything for Windows users but the OSS iCE40 tools are fantastic on Linux. I wish yosys etc worked on my Cyclone 4 board.