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+See http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/ for more information.
+
+Note: This is a development snapshot. This version of
+icestorm will not work with any release of arachne-pnr.
+
+Download "icestorm-snapshot-150526.zip" from the website
+for the last "stable" version of project icestorm.