First time issues programming the iCE40HX1K-EVB using SPI

[nachoworks]

I did not find a similar topic, but wanted to share this information to avoid other people bumping into the same issue  I spent about two nights trying to program the iCE40HX1K-EVB using my RPi 4 with no success, checking connections, switching pins on the RPi.

Dear fellow FPGA-traveller: The PGM-1 connector does not have pin 1 in the top left corner!



In the documentation and schematics this is rotated 180 degrees



The average reader: "PCB layout does not follow the schematic!!!"
I know, pebkac, this is probably due to my own experience in placing pin1 always in the same orientation on schematic/board.

I just wanted to have this highlighted somewhere

Also: the documentation for this board is somewhat outdated as it mentions RPi2's and some dead links at the bottom when it comes to RPi programming.

[nachoworks]

To make up for the critique of my last comment, I thought I'd help out:

Enjoy fellow travellers! https://github.com/kerstensrobin/iCE40HX1k-EVB-exploration

Scraping together some documentations and clarifying things that were not necessarily clear to me in the beginning, being out of practice when it comes to FGPA development.