Still far away from synthesizing just any design, but when following the design rules, things basically bake into a *.svf file that downloads to the corresponding target board.

Last commits (inside the 'hacker space') add the mandatory blinky example for the Versa ECP5 development kit from Lattice Semi.

Those who have been dealing with the Diamond toolchain for a while may remember some pain: The downloads to the target could take up to 30 seconds already.

The current setup shortens the translate-synthesize-map-place'n'route iteration cycles significantly. So the newly added blinky example should download within five seconds (after installing all the necessary packages, setting permissions and running the container locally). Not that this should encourage trial&error coding, but it might stop you from having too many smoke breaks.