turbocooler

The thing I'm excited the most about the new #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer is the way it allows you to travel while occasionally tinkering with random hardware you find along the way. It's like a box of tools you can manage with a Python script (or just shell commands for simple tasks) that you can put in your pocket.

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems that would be highly appreciated. I'm sure LiteX one works well and might integrate into Amaranth code nicely (iirc luna_soc does this), but something Glasgow-grade in Amaranth would be cool to have.

Wow, Amaranth (the HDL) is so easy to hack! Building and flashing a blinky to my old Arty A7-35 on a Mac with an unsupported toolchain version (openXC7 fork of nextpnr-xilinx) took about 2 hours and most of the time was spent on building nextpnr-xilinx, figuring out the best way to use their FASM integration and also fighting with MacPorts a bit. Making Amaranth build system work with this took only 15 minutes and about 10 lines of code which change string values for part numbers. No patches were required. All I needed was to install latest amaranth and amaranth_boards from PyPI. That is so good.

Thanks @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems!