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Dive into FPGA schematic design, moving beyond the comfort of development boards to create our very own custom PCB. OPEN hardware, schematic is online: check links below.

This video is perfect for anyone new to integrating FPGAs into their circuits. I'll guide you through the process as I design and layout a board centered around the iCE40 UP5k, as a drop in replacement for the TinyTapeout ASIC carrier boards.

The goal is to have a PCB with its own FPGA and supporting components, and set it up in a way that we can get a bootloader running that will allow for easy updates through USB, without any extra hardware or external programmers.

The idea here is to provide a means to iterate designs, right on the tinytapeout demoboards, prior to actually taping out. Though this application is very specific, it's easy to go from this circuit to pretty much any board builtaround or including an FPGA.

The schematic is open hardware and (a version that's already been improved since this video was recorded) is available now.

The schematic may be viewed in

https://github.com/psychogenic/carave...

and the entire project is available in that repository, at
https://github.com/psychogenic/carave...