Nandland Go Board with both seven-segment displays showing '55' — the byte received over UART after typing 'U' in a serial terminal — with the Lattice iCE40HX1K chip and NANDLAND.COM GO BOARD silkscreen visible

Learning FPGAs on Fedora With an Open-Source Toolchain

Years ago, back when every conference had an “IoT track” and nobody was talking about LLMs yet, I bought a Nandland Go Board with the intent of learning FPGAs. The board went into a drawer, life happened, and I never got around to it. A few project ideas have brought FPGAs back to the front of my mind, so I pulled the Go Board out of the drawer and went back to basics using an entirely open-source toolchain on Fedora. ...

April 25, 2026 · 16 min