How To Install nextpnr-ice40 on Debian 12

Learn how to install nextpnr-ice40 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. nextpnr-ice40 is FPGA place and route tool for Lattice iCE40

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nextpnr-ice40 on Debian 12.

What is `nextpnr-ice40`

nextpnr-ice40 is:

nextpnr is a FPGA place and route tool. Its purpose is to turn a topological description of digital hardware produced by an FPGA logic synthesis tool such as yosys into an elaborate map of connections between the hardwired functional units available inside the FPGA’s fabric.

In order to verify the fully implemented design for proper operation at speed timing-analysis of the design is also supported.

nextpnr-ice40 supports the Lattice iCE40 series of FPGAs and uses the hardware description chipdb from the fpga-icestorm package.

This package supports only the command-line interface, there is also a GUI version in the nextpnr-ice40-qt package.

There are three methods to install nextpnr-ice40 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install nextpnr-ice40 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install nextpnr-ice40 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nextpnr-ice40

Install nextpnr-ice40 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install nextpnr-ice40 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install nextpnr-ice40

Install nextpnr-ice40 Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install nextpnr-ice40 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nextpnr-ice40

How To Uninstall nextpnr-ice40 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the nextpnr-ice40 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove nextpnr-ice40

Uninstall nextpnr-ice40 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nextpnr-ice40 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nextpnr-ice40

Remove nextpnr-ice40 Configurations and Data

To remove nextpnr-ice40 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nextpnr-ice40

Remove nextpnr-ice40 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove nextpnr-ice40 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nextpnr-ice40

Dependencies

nextpnr-ice40 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nextpnr-ice40 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.