FPGAwars/apio

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1006 stars · 167 forks observed · 2026-09-03

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Apio is an open-source command-line toolbox that simplifies FPGA development, providing commands to lint, simulate, build, and upload designs to FPGA boards. It manages toolchains and supports 3 FPGA architectures, 80+ FPGAs, and 80+ boards, with a companion VS Code IDE extension.

Use cases

• set up an fpga toolchain for a lattice ice40 board
• build and upload verilog code to an fpga board
• simulate a verilog design from the command line
• lint my verilog source files
• manage fpga toolchain packages like icestorm
• get started with open source fpga development

When to choose

• you develop for supported Lattice/iCE40 or other supported FPGA boards and want a simple, unified CLI workflow
• you want automatic toolchain installation and management instead of configuring open-source FPGA tools manually
• you want a VS Code IDE integration for FPGA projects

When to avoid

• you target FPGA vendors or architectures not among the 3 supported ones
• you need vendor-specific proprietary toolchains like Vivado or Quartus
• you need a GUI-only workflow without any command-line usage

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli build-tool package-manager developer-tools testing developer-tools hardware embedded-systems windows python cli fpga verilog icestorm lattice fpga-development hardware-description open-fpga simulation synthesis command-line linux macos

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