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Lattic iCEcube2 on Debian
I recently started looking at Lattice chips
for a project that needs a fairly small FPGA. They have small
devices that are significantly lower in cost than the larger Xilinx
Spartan chips I've used in the past. To explore further, I ordered
the ICE40HX1K eval board ($22) and downloaded the free iCEcube2 IDE
for my Debian stable(Jessie) 64-bit PC.
The first try at
installing the IDE hit issues:
error while loading shared
libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory
The library is installed,
so obviously the IDE wants the 32-bit version. I haven't tried to
work with 32-bit stuff since Debian went to the multiarch approach,
so that led to a new learning experience. Previously one would
install ia32 versions of the needed libraries. After a bit of
googling, I found that the current approach is (as root, or using
sudo):
dpkg --add-architecture
i386 # Include 32-bit stuff
apt-get
update # Add in the lists of 32-bit
packages.
apt-file search
libXext.so.6 # Find out what package I need - libxext6
in this case.
apt-get
install libxext6:i386 # Add the 32-bit version of
thepackage.
Now, the install fails because it's missing
libpng12.so.0, so
repeat the apt-file search
and apt-get install
steps for that. In Total I ended up installing libpng12-0:i386, libsm6:i386,
libxi6:i386, libxrender1:i386, libxrandr2:i386, libxfixes3:i386,
libxcursor1:i386, libxinerama1:i386, libfreetype6:i386,
libfontconfig1:i386, libglib2.0-0:i386.
With that, iCEcube2 installs and runs.
Now I can start playing with the eval board when it shows
up.
Notes:
hackaday.io/project/6592-dipsy/log/24272-installing-icecube-2-on-ubuntu-14042-lts
Pointed me in the right direction to complete the install. Their
Dipsy project uses the Lattice chip, and looks interesting.
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