| Port details |
- silice Language that simplifies prototyping and writing algorithms for FPGAs
- g20260322 cad
=1 g20221229_1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: yuri@FreeBSD.org
 - Port Added: 2023-01-08 09:42:33
- Last Update: 2026-03-22 18:16:51
- Commit Hash: 536fbc9
- People watching this port, also watch:: zapret2, indi, zapret, ldview, qelectrotech
- Also Listed In: java
- License: GPLv3
- WWW:
- https://github.com/sylefeb/Silice
- Description:
- Silice is an easy-to-learn, powerful hardware description language, that allows
both to prototype ideas quickly and then refine designs to be compact and
efficient.
Silice achieves this by offering a few, carefully designed high level design
primitives atop a low level description language. In particular, Silice allows
to write and combine algorithms, pipelines and per-cycle logic in a coherent,
unified way. It features a powerful instantiation-time pre-processor, making it
easy to describe parametric designs.
Silice offers a ready-to-go design environment, supporting many FPGA boards,
both open-source and proprietary. It natively supports simulation and formal
verification.
Silice syntax is simple, explicit and easy to read, and should feel familiar to
C programmers and Verilog designers alike. Silice comes with a ton of examples.
The build system already supports many popular boards such as the IceBreaker,
de10-nano, ULX3S, Fomu and IceStick. Silice works great with the open-source
FPGA toolchain (yosys/nextpnr/icestorm), see our Ice40 and ECP5 examples.
You do not need an FPGA to start with Silice: designs and their outputs
(e.g. VGA signals) can be simulated and visualized.
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- Manual pages:
- FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
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- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/cad/silice/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install cad/silice
- pkg install silice
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: silice
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1774197181
SHA256 (sylefeb-Silice-g20260322-73bebc45_GH0.tar.gz) = 0722318ac1f4024d9cfb84e0360ac4a603e605833ce2ff4bd7a462c943f1a5db
SIZE (sylefeb-Silice-g20260322-73bebc45_GH0.tar.gz) = 36233853
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
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- bash : shells/bash
- cmake : devel/cmake-core
- java : java/openjdk21
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- Test dependencies:
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- python3.11 : lang/python311
- Runtime dependencies:
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- py311-edalize>0 : cad/py-edalize@py311
- java : java/openjdk21
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:
- No options to configure
- Options name:
- cad_silice
- USES:
- cmake:noninja java python shebangfix
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- Master Sites:
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| Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
| Commit | Credits | Log message |
g20260322 22 Mar 2026 18:16:51
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Älven (alven)  |
cad/silice: Update g20221229 => g20260322
* Add java to CATEGORIES
* Lift off limit to Java version (tested with OpenJDK 21)
* Fix and improve pkg-descr
Approved by: yuri@ (maintainer, Mentor)
Approved by: db@, yuri@ (Mentors, implicit)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56030 |
g20221229_2 26 Feb 2026 08:10:21
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Ronald Klop (ronald)  |
*/*: bump portrevision after java_default=21 update
PR: 272855 |
g20221229_1 31 Dec 2024 08:57:55
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Muhammad Moinur Rahman (bofh)  |
Mk/**java.mk: Convert bsd.java.mk to USES
The following features have been added or changed:
- Instead of USE_JAVA use USES=java. This defaults to
USES=java:build,run if NO_BUILD is undefined. Else it defaults to
USES=java:run
- Instead of USE_ANT=yes use USES=java:ant which also implies
USES=java:build
- Instead of JAVA_BUILD=yes use USES=java:build. Does not imply run or
extract
- Instead of JAVA_EXTRACT=yes use USES=java:extract does not imply
build or run
- Instead of JAVA_RUN=yes use USES=java:run does not imply extract or
build
- Instead of USE_JAVA=<version> use USES=java and JAVA_VERSION=<version>
Approved by: mat (portmgr), glewis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D48201 |
g20221229_1 23 Apr 2023 09:09:58
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Gerald Pfeifer (gerald)  |
*: Bump PORTREVISIONs for math/mpc update to 1.3.1 |
g20221229 08 Jan 2023 09:40:50
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Yuri Victorovich (yuri)  |
cad/silice: New port: Language that simplifies prototyping and writing
algorithms for FPGAs |