Bug#960616: ITP: nextpnr -- FPGA place-and-route tool

[Nathaniel Graff <nathaniel.graff@sifive.com>]

> On May 14, 2020, at 2:51 PM, Serge Cohen <serge.cohen@synchrotron-soleil.fr> wrote:
> 
> 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).

Hi Serge!

Absolutely, I’m interested in moving on to packaging both Project Trellis and Project X-Ray and expanding the nextpnr package to include those targets.

Of course, we’ll just have to see how far my current momentum takes me. :)

Thanks,
Nate