Wishlist: proposed features

General ideas (To be studied, classified and prioritized)

Moved to 0.2.1

• Execute Icestudio as a client, on a remote server. Instead of "apio build" execute "192.168.0.1 / apio build"

Moved to 0.2.2

• Generation of test-benches (export generic testbenches) (proposed by Carlos Santiago Díaz)

Moved to 0.2.3

• Standalone packaging
• Show examples for the selected board
• Add boards documentation
• Detect system language (https://github.com/Elzair/node-lang-info) (Proposed by Salvador)
• Option for Showing the Resources availables / used when synthetising a circuit (It will be necessary to parse the output generated by Arachne)
• Close error notifications only on click (Proposed by AlexTC)
• View selected board in the panel (Proposed by AlexTC)
• Manage the wires that are connected, placing a dot en the union. Sometimes is hard to visualize if two wires that cross are or not connected (Proposed by Jose Javier Jimenez Viton)

Moved to 0.3.0

• Block-code with user-defined parameters (Ex. number of bits of the divisor). When the block is placed, also the parameter can be set
• Use Constant blocks for parameters (Proposed by Salvador)
• When exporting a block, the ordination or the outputs should be taken from the y-coordinate. Now it is taken from the ordination of creation of the pin. It is more clear if the ordination is taken from the original block
• Add "Project information" section: name, version, description, author, image
• Include compressed SVG image in the project
• Update Project format
• Add "Add project as block" option: remove ".iceb" concept, only ".ice" will be used
• Port created as virtual (green), then they can be converted into FPGA I/O ports (yellow)
• Use N-bit wires
• Tooltip with a block description (Proposed by Carlos Santiago Díaz)
• Create new window if required on New/Open
• Detect project modifications
• Don't ask "remove block" notification` option
• Undo/Redo (Proposed by AlexTC)
• Block collections manager
• Change code/info blocks size (Proposed by Javascam)
• Zoom code/info blocks font size (Proposed by Juanma Rico)
• Clipboard in multiple windows (Proposed by Juanma Rico)
• Keep connections when a Code block is edited (Proposed by Juanma Rico)

Moved to 0.3.1

• Automatic same-name ports connection (Proposed by S Cuenca)

Moved to 0.3.2

• Replace block without removing the wires (Proposed by Andrés)

Wishlist

• Simulation with GTKwave (Proposed by Carlos Santiago Díaz)
• Serial terminal integrated in Icestudio (available in nightly builds)
• Generation of Finite state machines (Proposed by Carlos Santiago Díaz)
• Test with Electron (discardted,new version redefine architecture)
• Parametrized blocks(available in plugins with nightly builds)
• Iterative block edition
• Refactor all graphics: jointjs has behavior problems with SVG, HTML elements, Mouse events and zIndexes.
• Import modules with write access. Currently, when a module is imported into a project, you can only see the code, but cannot change anything. After using icestudio with real project, I think (obijuan) that it would be better if the modules can be changed inside the project. I really do not know if this is easy or hard to implement. The changes should only happen in the module edited. If there are many instances of a module, only the one instance is changed
• Option for update the modules. If you want to include a new updated version of a module, which have many instances in the current project, it would be great to have an option for doing that (all the modules updated)
• Edit FPGA I/O pin by number (Proposed by Democrito)
• Colored wires (Proposed by Democrito)
• Add labels to wires (Proposed by tonicobi)
• Add/Edit block last names (Proposed by Juanma Rico)
• File > Recent projects (Proposed by Juanma Rico)
• Add Peripherals (complex I/O blocks) (Proposed by Obijuan)
• Group blocks (Proposed by Andrés)
• Install Collections from GitHub (Proposed by Carlos)
• Multiple system clock configuration (Proposed by Carlos & Salvador)
• Rotate/Flip blocks (Proposed by Jose Pico)
• Tooltips for I/O ports in custom blocks (Proposed by Jose Pico)
• Define global variables (in empty code blocks)