01:22 <sf-slack2> <frenebo> Hi, does anyone know where someone could get started with SymbiFlow and FPGAs? I bought a board from Altera since I was interested in FPGAs, but I was disappointed with their software.I found SymbiFlow and IceStorm and would be interested in helping

01:42 <hackerfoo> Hi frenebo, how would you like to contribute? Here's a list of issues that would be good to start with: https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+user%3ASymbiFlow+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22

01:43 <hackerfoo> The first step is to check out https://github.com/SymbiFlow/symbiflow-arch-defs and follow "Getting Started" from the README.

01:43 <tpb> Title: GitHub - SymbiFlow/symbiflow-arch-defs: FOSS architecture definitions of FPGA hardware useful for doing PnR device generation. (at github.com)

03:37 <litghost> frenebo: Currently open source flows exist or partially exists for ice40, ECP5 and Xilinx 7-series parts. The first step in creating those flows is creating the raw device database, which is icestorm for ice40, prjtrellis for ECP5, and prjxray for 7-series parts. I'm not sure of an altera bitstream documentation effort. In theory the documentation strategies in prjtrellis and prjxray might work for Altera parts.

03:38 <litghost> frenebo: Once a documentation project exists, architecture definitions would be welcome in https://github.com/SymbiFlow/symbiflow-arch-defs

03:38 <tpb> Title: GitHub - SymbiFlow/symbiflow-arch-defs: FOSS architecture definitions of FPGA hardware useful for doing PnR device generation. (at github.com)

03:40 <sorear> some work has been done on MAX V

03:40 <sorear> I don't think that has much overlap with what people mean by "Altera parts" though

04:05 <hackerfoo> The MAX 10 family is pretty interesting, it goes up to 50K LEs.