Production delayed but still on the way

Written by: GroupGets | September 30, 2022

We received a mislabeled reel of components, so now we're just waiting on a replacement to arrive.

Shipping is delayed until early-mid October.

Shipping estimated to begin late September

Written by: GroupGets | August 31, 2022

All parts have been ordered and PCBs are being made!

We are running a bit behind the original lead time estimate, but on track to ship late September.

Campaign Update

Written by: GroupGets | August 16, 2022

Enclosures available to order now!

Written by: GroupGets | August 08, 2022

If you have already made an order, you can add it by going to your dashboard, clicking "view" on the order, and edit from the order invoice page.

Make sure your billing and shipping information is up to date while you're there. This campaign will be funded soon!

Week 7 - ICE-V Campaign Update

Written by: Michael Welling | August 05, 2022

Week 7 Update

Though weekly updates were not posted for the last few weeks there has been plenty work going on in the community.

We hit 94% funding today so we are getting really close. Tell your FPGA friends, the campaign closes soon!

Rust support

Seeing some rust posts on twitter for the ESP32-C3 we had to give it a try.

The standard ESP32-C3 port works just fine on the ICE-V wireless. Happy news for rustaceans out there!

Zephyr support

Chris Friedt has volunteered and mainlined the base mainline Zephyr port for the ICE-V!

Work on Zephyr for RISC-V on the FPGA on ICE-V is also underway!

wolfSSL support

Gojimmypi continued his work on wolfSSL support and a blog post dropped today about the support that was facilitated by ICE-V wireless.

wolfSSL Espressif ESP32-C3 RISC-V Support

Test fixture

Eric has been working on the test fixture gateware/firmware and created a new repo to support it.

ICE-V_MfgTest

Enclosure design

Griffin from GroupGets kindly provided a 3D printable case and we are going to make it available on the campaign when it is ready.

Here are some 3D print examples of his fantastic work!

Get involved

To get involved in the collaboration join the QWERTY Embedded Discord server.

Some neat FPGA examples are in the works.

Week 3 - ICE-V Campaign Update

Written by: Michael Welling | July 10, 2022

Week 3 Update

This week reached 65% funding and firmware development has been coming along nicely.

Firmware Update

Eric was able to get a Micropython port up and running on the ESP32-C3 and has a script for flashing the FPGA. See the ICE-V-Micropython repo for instructions on how to get it working.

Sent a board out to gojimmypi and got some community development underway. Hope to see WolfSSL support in the near future.

Hardware Updates

Seen a significant reduction in stock of the ESP32-CE-1-N4 part. There are extended temperature and AWS IoT versions of the module still in stock and the pipeline appears to be okay such that we don't need to preorder.

There has been some initial discussion of creating a 3D printable case for the board and that may be in the works soon.

Week 2 - ICE-V Campaign Update

Written by: Michael Welling | July 01, 2022

Week 2 Update

This week was a little slower bringing in more backers but that has not discouraged us and we continue to push firmware and RTL examples forward.

We sat down with Groupgets this week for a video interview. Watch for that to be released soon.

Firmware Updates

Eric has been digging around in the Arduino API documentation and running experiments to get familiar with that environment in order to port the basic firmware functionality from ESP-IDF to ESP32 Arduino. So far no roadblocks and he has gotten the WiFiManager library working for SoftAP provisioning (a much nicer one than what's available in IDF) as well as mDNS and unique hostnames so we can have multiple ICE-V on the network at the same time. Currently in progress is adding the TCP socket handler for the FPGA configuration and then the low level SPI/GPIO stuff needed for the actual functionality. We hope to have a first cut on this up on the ICE-V Github within the next few days.

There is also a community volunteer working on bringing up Zephyr support for both the ESP32 and ICE40. Hardware was shipped and we hope to see progress there in the upcoming weeks.

Hardware Updates

The parts are still under close watch to make sure that we can fulfill the campaign when it closes. All trouble parts have been pre-ordered.

Work on the test fixture is going to start next week.

Week 1 - ICE-V Campaign Update

Written by: Michael Welling | June 24, 2022

Week 1 Update

The campaign is off to a great start with 58% funding in one week!

Many thanks to everyone backing campaign!

Firmware updates

Eric has been hard at work on a WiFi provisioning application that provides a SoftAP which allows the user to provide credentials for the network of their choice.

ICE-V WiFi Manager

There has been some investigation into supporting the icestudio software and the underlying APIO package. This would give a nicer experience for newer users that aren't command line warriors. This also allows for host platform independent tools which is great!

Hardware updates

We having keeping a close eye on the stock of the various parts on the board. To avoid long lead times upon exhaustion we are preemptively ordering parts for low stock, long lead time parts.

There may be some subtle changes to the production PCBs. Mostly to tidy up the routing some and we may adjust the placement of the push buttons to be a little further from the generic single row header.

We are working manufacturing logistics in the background to ensure that we are ready for production as soon as the campaign closes.

Campaign Update

Written by: GroupGets | June 17, 2022