Installing Lattice iCEcube2 FPGA tools on Ubuntu

Lattice iCEcube2 has not been updated for a while…

Installing an old libpng package

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wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.54-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libpng12-0_1.2.54-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb

Going through the interface issue

Lattice iCEcube2 license takes into account the MAC address of the computer. In order to work, the interface must be labeled as eth0 as stated on the TinyFPGA forum (don’t ask me why…)

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$ sudo ip link add eth0 type dummy
$ sudo ip link set eth0 address 10:65:30:ee:48:9a

Now, iCEcube2 should work!

Shebang

You may need to modify the shebang of binary scripts installed in $INSTALL_DIR/synpbase/bin (for instance, #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash).