Diamond

Introduction

Lattice diamond is the software used to synthesize bitstream for Lattice FPGAs. It's required for the MachXO[1,2,3] FPGA.

Installation guide

Download

Download the rpm file on Lattice website [1].

Get a free license

On this page : [2]

Install on debian 64bits

• First alien is needed to convert the rpm in debian package :

sudo apt-get install alien

• Convert it to deb package then install it:

sudo alien diamond_3_7-base_x64-96-1-x86_64-linux.rpm
sudo dpkg -i diamond-3-7-base-x64_3.7-97_amd64.deb

• The package is not correctly installed in directory /usr/local/diamond/. All tar.gz must be deflated :

cd /usr/local/diamond/3.7_x64/
cd bin/; sudo tar -zxvf bin.tar.gz; cd ..
cd synpbase/;sudo tar -zxvf synpbase.tar.gz;cd ..
cd examples/;sudo tar -zxvf examples.tar.gz; cd ..
cd data/;sudo tar -zxvf data.tar.gz; cd ..
cd cae_library/;sudo tar -zxvf cae_library.tar.gz; cd ..
cd ispfpga/;sudo tar -zxvf ispfpga.tar.gz;cd ..
cd tcltk/;sudo tar -zxvf tcltk.tar.gz;cd ..
cd embedded_source/;sudo tar -zxvf embedded_source.tar.gz;cd ..

• Install libpng correctly:

cd /usr/local/diamond/3.7_x64/bin/lin64
sudo mv libpng12.so.0 libpng12.so.0.old
sudo ln /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0 -s libpng12.so.0

Ressources/links

• Official Installation Guide (for redhat) (pdf)
• Installing Lattice Diamond on Ubuntu 14.04