Published June 2, 2024 © Apache-2.0

Sipeed Tang Nano 9K with OSS CAD Suite

Checking out a low cost FPGA and OSS tools

BeginnerProtip1 hour352

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Seeed Studio Tang Nano 9k FPGA board - Gowin GW1NR-9 FPGA with 8640 LUT4 + 6480 flip flops

Software apps and online services

Microsoft VS Code

oss-cad-suite-build

Lushay Code

Story

The goal was to find a low cost FPGA board and use Open Source tools for development.

Board: Tang nano 9K
Tools: VSCode with several plugins, and OSS CAD Suite

I was going to install the GoWIN IDE to start porting a project to the board and found a open source solution. Lushay Code, it is a plugin for visual studio that takes your verilog code compiles it with OSS CAD suite. It took about 20 minutes to install the tools and follow a basic example to blink the on board LEDs.

Follow this link to install the tools and simple project to blink LEDs. Using Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS.