brianrhill

I'm at a very small college with similar constraints — specifically, we have a majority of users with Macs. I'd like to be able to take them through a text such as Harris & Harris, Digital Design and Computer Architecture, including the FPGA labs. The openocd step for loading the bitstream once it has been generated onto the board discussed above is cross-platform and looks straightforward (there are brew and macports options). However, an even larger question is what are the cross-platform options for generating the bitstream!? I'm posting because I have learned that there is a project that is fairly far along for that, called f4pga, which stands for FOSS Flow for FPGA, which can create bitstreams for Digilent boards without using Vivado. The f4pga project has straightforward directions for setting up on four Linux platforms (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, and Fedora), and since it is free, open-source software, it seems plausible to hope that Mac directions will soon exist as well. Here is where those Linux directions live: https://f4pga-examples.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. Thanks to all the contributors to this thread.