ICEPACK(1)

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💖 ICEPACK — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so icepack is a thing that lives in the ICEPACK(1) section of your manual pages, and it takes a readable .txt file description of a Lattice FPGA and packs it into binary bitstreams. that's it. that's the whole gig. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

icepack — packs a readable .txt file description of a Lattice FPGA into binary bitstreams. periodt. 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

icepack [options] [input-file [output-file]]

like… give it some options, maybe an input file, maybe an output file, and she'll handle the rest. no cap. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the way this works: this tool can be used to create binary bitstreams for a Lattice FPGA from a readable .txt file. it's literally the reverse operation of what iceunpack do. they're giving opposites-attract, they're giving "you unpack, I pack", it's a whole duo. 🙈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

here's the menu, bestie. every single one, no skipping, I would never do you like that. 💖

  • -u — unpack mode (and ngl, this one gets implied automatically when you call the binary as iceunpack)
  • -v — verbose. repeat it to increase verbosity, so like… stack them up if you want more tea 🍓
  • -b — write the cram bitmap as a netpbm file
  • -f — write the cram bitmap (fill tiles) as a netpbm file
  • -c — write the cram bitmap (checkerboard) as a netpbm file. repeat the flag to flip the selection of tiles 🔥
  • -r — write bram data, not cra, to the netpbm file
  • -B0,-B1,-B2,-B3 — only include the specified banks in the netpbm file
ok quick vibe check: those -B options are four separate flags, <italic>not</italic> one option with a number glued on. -B0 and -B1 and -B2 and -B3. keep them exactly like that, bestie, don't get creative. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • iceunpack(1) — the other half of the duo, go say hi 👋

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Ruben Undheim <ruben.undheim@gmail.com> for the Debian project (and honestly? it may be used by others too, she's generous like that). 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 it's dated 28 February 2026, it belongs to the ICEPACK(1) manual, and it ate. no crumbs. go pack some bitstreams. 🧚✨

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