# icestorm を Homebrew, apk, dnf, Nix でインストール

icestorm のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

## インストール

```sh
sudo av install brew:icestorm
```

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install icestorm
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add icestorm
```

  証拠: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: icestorm from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install icestorm
```

  証拠: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: icestorm from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#icestorm
```

  証拠: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ic/icestorm/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:icestorm
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 1.1
- **ソース概要:** Tools for analyzing and creating Lattice iCE40 FPGA bitstream files
- **ホームページ:** <https://prjicestorm.readthedocs.io>
- **リポジトリ:** <https://github.com/YosysHQ/icestorm>
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- icebox_asc2hlc (エイリアス)
- icebox_chipdb (エイリアス)
- icebox_colbuf (エイリアス)
- icebox_diff (エイリアス)
- icebox_explain (エイリアス)
- icebox_hlc2asc (エイリアス)
- icebox_html (エイリアス)
- icebox_maps (エイリアス)
- icebox_stat (エイリアス)
- icebox_vlog (エイリアス)
- icebram (エイリアス)
- icemulti (エイリアス)
- icepack (エイリアス)
- icepll (エイリアス)
- iceprog (エイリアス)
- icetime (エイリアス)
- iceunpack (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 1.1
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

Project IceStorm is the reverse-engineered documentation and tool suite for Lattice iCE40 FPGA bitstreams. In package-manager terms it is the `ice*` tool bundle that helped make a fully open-source Verilog-to-bitstream flow practical on inexpensive FPGA boards.

### プロジェクトの歴史

The project began as an effort to document the iCE40 bitstream format and provide simple tools for analyzing and creating bitstream files. Its own timeline records a first public release in March 2015, a working fully open-source flow with Yosys and Arachne-pnr in May 2015, and a move of the source code to GitHub in July 2015.

IceStorm's documentation frames Lattice iCE40 as a good target because the architecture is regular and minimal, with inexpensive development boards available. That made the family useful both for reverse-engineered documentation and as a reference platform for open FPGA tooling.

### 採用の歴史

IceStorm became important because it linked several independent tools into an end-to-end flow: Yosys for synthesis, Arachne-pnr and later nextpnr for place-and-route, IceStorm tools for packing, unpacking, timing, bitstream inspection, and programming. By 2016 the documentation listed support across LP/HX 1K, 4K, and 8K package variants, and in 2018 it added iCE40 UltraPlus support.

The package shows up in Homebrew, Alpine, Fedora, and Nix metadata because FPGA hobbyists, hardware hackers, and digital-design developers often want the flow on ordinary Unix-like developer machines rather than inside vendor IDEs.

### 使われ方

A typical flow synthesizes Verilog with Yosys, places and routes with Arachne-pnr or nextpnr, packs the ASCII bitstream with `icepack`, and programs hardware with `iceprog`. Other tools such as `iceunpack`, `icebox_explain`, `icebox_vlog`, `icetime`, and `icepll` support reverse engineering, inspection, timing, and PLL configuration.

The package is especially associated with small iCE40 boards such as the iCEstick and HX8K breakout board, where a command-line flow is enough to build, inspect, and upload simple FPGA designs.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

Project IceStorm is one of the packages that made open FPGA development feel like normal Unix development: install compiler-like tools, run commands, inspect generated artifacts, and avoid proprietary GUI-only flows for supported iCE40 parts.

It is also historically important as a bridge between software package managers and hardware toolchains. Its executables expose FPGA bitstreams as files that can be packed, unpacked, explained, converted to Verilog, timed, and programmed.

### タイムライン

- 2015-03-22: First public release and demonstration video.
- 2015-05-27: Working fully open-source flow with Yosys and Arachne-pnr.
- 2015-07-19: 8K chip support released and source code moved to GitHub.
- 2016-01-17: First IceTime timing-analysis release.
- 2016-02-07: Support for all package variants of LP1K, LP4K, LP8K, HX1K, HX4K, and HX8K.
- 2018-01-30: iCE40 UltraPlus support released.
- 2025: The GitHub repository lists v1.1 as a tagged release.

### Related projects

- Yosys provides Verilog synthesis for the iCE40 flow.
- Arachne-pnr and nextpnr provide place-and-route options used with IceStorm.
- Lattice iCEcube2 is the proprietary tool whose generated bitstreams were used as comparison material during reverse engineering.
- F4PGA and other FPGA documentation efforts belong to the broader open FPGA tooling movement.

### ソース

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/icestorm>
- <https://github.com/YosysHQ/icestorm>
- <https://github.com/YosysHQ/icestorm/releases>
- <https://prjicestorm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html>


## セキュリティノート

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger リスク:** blue / 中
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録

- Nix - icestorm: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ic/icestorm/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - icestorm - 0_git20240517-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: icestorm from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Project IceStorm - Lattice iCE40 FPGAs Bitstream Documentation | https://github.com/YosysHQ/icestorm
- dnf - icestorm - 0-0.44.20250707gitf31c39c.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: icestorm from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Lattice iCE40 FPGA bitstream creation/analysis/programming tools | http://bygone.clairexen.net/icestorm


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/icestorm.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/icestorm.yml)


## ソース

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
