Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent
I've been hacking away lately, and I'm now proud to show off my newest project - The Icepi Zero! In case you don't know what an FPGA is, this phrase summarizes it perfectly: "FPGAs work like this. You don't tell them what to do, you tell them what to BE." You don't program them, but you rewrite the circuits they contain! So I've made a PCB that carries an ECP5 FPGA, and has a raspberry pi zero footprint. It also has a few improvements! Notably the 2 USB b ports are replaced with 3 USB C ports, and it has multiple LEDs. This board can output HDMI, read from a uSD, use a SDRAM and much more.…
Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent launched on May 28, 2025 with 233 votes, #128 of 7,905 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Icepi Zero is an FPGA development board with a Raspberry Pi Zero form factor, built around an ECP5 FPGA chip. It features three USB-C ports, multiple LEDs, and supports HDMI output, microSD card reading, and SDRAM. Designed for makers and hardware hackers who want to reconfigure digital circuits rather than write traditional software, the board is open-source and available on GitHub.
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From the sources
An ECP5 FPGA Dev Board in a Pi Zero form. Contribute to cheyao/icepi-zero development by creating an account on GitHub.
If you are a student/educational institute, send me an email at cyao _at_ duck.com and I'll give an educational discount of $65! We also got a Discord server ! Feel free to ask any questions here. The Icepi Zero is an FPGA development board in the popular Raspberry Pi Zero form factor. It carries a Lattice ECP5 25F, enabling powerful designs while keeping a small portable size. It also has a GPDI mini (General Purpose Display Interface, same as the one on the Pi Zero) port allowing easy digital video output. Currently most powerful FPGA boards on the market are expensive and bulky. I've always wanted a low-cost portable FPGA with video output to make my own CPU, but there isn't any on the…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
I've been hacking away lately, and I'm now proud to show off my newest project - The Icepi Zero! In case you don't know what an FPGA is, this phrase summarizes it perfectly: "FPGAs work like this. You don't tell them what to do, you tell them what to BE." You don't program them, but you rewrite the circuits they…
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