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Including FEL applications to Debian
Last month, Aanjhan Ranganathan (Active Debian and Ubuntu contributor) joined the Fedora Electronic Lab crew.
Recently, he included magic, irsim and xcircuit to the Debian world. Now I feel, we are reaching one of the many Fedora Electronic Lab objectives:
A quick and simple deployment of an Electronic simulation platform made possible.
Together with Aanjhan, we have a strong focus on not deviating from upstream.
Last week at LinuxTag2008, ThibaultNorth, Jeroen Van Meeuwen and I were exploring an eventual FEL LiveDVD, since 700MB isn't enough to put all the electronic tools.
During the next few days, a FEL LiveDVD kickstart should be available for testing.
Recently, he included magic, irsim and xcircuit to the Debian world. Now I feel, we are reaching one of the many Fedora Electronic Lab objectives:
A quick and simple deployment of an Electronic simulation platform made possible.
Together with Aanjhan, we have a strong focus on not deviating from upstream.
Last week at LinuxTag2008, ThibaultNorth, Jeroen Van Meeuwen and I were exploring an eventual FEL LiveDVD, since 700MB isn't enough to put all the electronic tools.
During the next few days, a FEL LiveDVD kickstart should be available for testing.
Linuxtag 2008: Fedora Electronic Lab
I'm proud to announce that today (yet again :) many thanks to Fedora Ambassadors ) 30 May 2008 at 10h00 to 11h00 (Berlin), one of our new Fedora Electronic Lab members ThibaultNorth (from Switzerland) will hold a presentation (english) at the Fedora FUDCon (Saal Europa 2 (OG))
He will introduce Fedora Electronic Lab and how interoperability is met with this electronic/microelectronic platform. Along with our FEL objectives at the Fedora project, he will show some demos as well.
I'm arriving at Berlin tomorrow to join the amazing Fedora LinuxTag crew :)
He will introduce Fedora Electronic Lab and how interoperability is met with this electronic/microelectronic platform. Along with our FEL objectives at the Fedora project, he will show some demos as well.
I'm arriving at Berlin tomorrow to join the amazing Fedora LinuxTag crew :)
Fedora Electronic Lab at Binghamton University
Benjamin Kreuter sent me a short writeup about their engineering design project at Binghamton University, explaining their achievements.
Binghamton University is a SUNY doctoral research university for 13000 students in beautiful upstate New York;
Together with his friend, Robert Greene, Benjamin Kreuter have introduced Fedora Electronic Lab to their university engineering laboratory. They discussed how free software and Fedora 8 was used to go beyond the minimum requirements of the project in their case study.
Please take the time to read it and if you or your friends are using FEL somewhere, please drop us an email like Benjamin did. We will be glad to hear from you and your suggestions. You can digg this post here.
Binghamton University is a SUNY doctoral research university for 13000 students in beautiful upstate New York;
Together with his friend, Robert Greene, Benjamin Kreuter have introduced Fedora Electronic Lab to their university engineering laboratory. They discussed how free software and Fedora 8 was used to go beyond the minimum requirements of the project in their case study.
Please take the time to read it and if you or your friends are using FEL somewhere, please drop us an email like Benjamin did. We will be glad to hear from you and your suggestions. You can digg this post here.
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Heads UP: FEL packages updates Release Notes
Heads up Fedora Electronic Lab users, after 4 months since the first Fedora Electronic Lab LiveCD was released, there have been many enhancements, fixes and features on the FEL packages on both F-7 and F-8. Some of you in Asia have even bought a issue of YOU magazine along with a FEL spin.
For a long time, I wanted to write a page which describes the main features that any FEL user is taking full advantage, thanks to Fedora's quick development and release cycles. We understand your need to develop better products with better EDA tools.
Today, I can now show you that page and at the same time give credits to those involved in the development. This page entails various enhancements brought forward to FEL by Fedora SciTech SIG and all Uptreams.
We recommend users to update their FEL deployments in order to take advantage of those improvements, features and fixes.
For a long time, I wanted to write a page which describes the main features that any FEL user is taking full advantage, thanks to Fedora's quick development and release cycles. We understand your need to develop better products with better EDA tools.
Today, I can now show you that page and at the same time give credits to those involved in the development. This page entails various enhancements brought forward to FEL by Fedora SciTech SIG and all Uptreams.
We recommend users to update their FEL deployments in order to take advantage of those improvements, features and fixes.
Fabless Semiconductor Business Model Presentation
Below you will find a presentation I made on how the free semiconductor business model can be attractive to academic institutions and research work.
Fedora Electronic Lab for 100$ ???
Well today, google alerts pointed to me a somehow great article on ReyesSoft Ports Open Source EDA Software to UNIX, even my name was listed on it.
Yes somehow, I'm a bit divided in 2 halves.
No, I'm not jealous of any other Fedora Electronic Lab like project. However I would welcome more people to work with me and upstream.
Reyesoft is shipping some of the packages of Fedora Electronic Lab for at least 100$ for different platform (windows, solaris, linux, macos), under the name 'OpenEDA Toolkit 1.0'.
Fedora ships the packages of Fedora Electronic Lab for FREE together with a complete FREE Operating System as well as free applications for daily usage. FEL supports i386, x86_64 and PPC
Strangely, googling 'Reyesoft points to an extensive press coverage. However, in all the mailing list I'm subscribed I didn't come across something about the development of any of those packages.
All I hope that Reyesoft is not dreaming to get big bucks like Red Hat without contributing to real open source communities. VLSI open source packages are way behind proprietary software so that a particular engineer could adopt it for real work. Can Reyesoft be part of the team who can drive us to this dream ?
Yes somehow, I'm a bit divided in 2 halves.
No, I'm not jealous of any other Fedora Electronic Lab like project. However I would welcome more people to work with me and upstream.
Reyesoft is shipping some of the packages of Fedora Electronic Lab for at least 100$ for different platform (windows, solaris, linux, macos), under the name 'OpenEDA Toolkit 1.0'.
Fedora ships the packages of Fedora Electronic Lab for FREE together with a complete FREE Operating System as well as free applications for daily usage. FEL supports i386, x86_64 and PPC
Strangely, googling 'Reyesoft points to an extensive press coverage. However, in all the mailing list I'm subscribed I didn't come across something about the development of any of those packages.
All I hope that Reyesoft is not dreaming to get big bucks like Red Hat without contributing to real open source communities. VLSI open source packages are way behind proprietary software so that a particular engineer could adopt it for real work. Can Reyesoft be part of the team who can drive us to this dream ?
FEL: gerbv 1.0.3
This is to announce the fourth release in the stable branch of gerbv, 1.0.3 was just built for Fedora and will be available shortly among the updates.
This release represents a point release incorporating a few patches made against the 1.0.X source over the last 1 1/2 years. Specific updates include:
Gerber Viewer (gerbv) is a viewer for Gerber files. Gerber files are generated from PCB CAD system and sent to PCB manufacturers as basis for the manufacturing process. The standard supported by gerbv is RS-274X.
This release represents a point release incorporating a few patches made against the 1.0.X source over the last 1 1/2 years. Specific updates include:
- Incorporate changes from Joost Witteveen to support extended %SR% commands.
- Fix endless loop bug when gerbv encountered an unknown % code. Patch from Joost Witteveen.
- Fixed initial scale setting for %MOMM% Gerber files. Patch from Joost Witteveen.
- Fixed format for small drillfiles. Patch from Trevor Blackwell.
- Fix setting of the initial window size when the screen is larger than the display. Patch from David Carr.
Gerber Viewer (gerbv) is a viewer for Gerber files. Gerber files are generated from PCB CAD system and sent to PCB manufacturers as basis for the manufacturing process. The standard supported by gerbv is RS-274X.
Fedora Electronic Lab 8 - Stable release
Last Thursday, 8th November 2007, the very first Fedora Electronic Lab LiveCD was released officially. This LiveCD is based on Fedora 8 KDE along with almost all electronic design tools.
Fedora's Electronic Laboratory provides a complete electronic laboratory setup with reliable open source design tools in order to meet one's requirements to keep one in pace with current technological race. Project management tools such as spreadsheet, gantt diagram, mindmapping tools.... are also included. This Electronic Laboratory can either be deployed by:
Download Fedora Electronic Lab LiveCD NOW via torrent
Read the abstract, the flyer or its website for more details.
For Fedora 8's release, "Fedora Electronic Lab" targets mainly the Micro-Nano Electronic Engineering field. It introduces:
Fedora's Electronic Laboratory provides a complete electronic laboratory setup with reliable open source design tools in order to meet one's requirements to keep one in pace with current technological race. Project management tools such as spreadsheet, gantt diagram, mindmapping tools.... are also included. This Electronic Laboratory can either be deployed by:
- yum or
- a Fedora Electronic Lab LiveCD
Download Fedora Electronic Lab LiveCD NOW via torrent
Read the abstract, the flyer or its website for more details.
For Fedora 8's release, "Fedora Electronic Lab" targets mainly the Micro-Nano Electronic Engineering field. It introduces:
- tools for Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) Design Flow process to the Fedora Collection.
- extra open source standard cell libraries supporting a feature size of 0.13µm. (more than 300 MB)
- extracted spice decks which can be simulated with gnucap/ngspice or any spice simulators.
- interoperability between various packages in order to achieve different design flows.
Fedora Electronic Lab Live CD Test 3
Fedora Electronic Lab Live CD Test 3 was released yesterday.
Use get-fedora wiki page to download a copy.
Use get-fedora wiki page to download a copy.
FEL - Fabless Semiconductor business model
You don't have financial strength to invest in building your own foundry in order to fabricate your chips?
You are opting for a fabless business model for trial (focusing on design and outsourcing the actual manufacturing) ?
The Fedora Project proposes a free fabless semiconductor business model for your needs, thus allowing you to stay focused on cutting-edge design, and not invest in manufacturing.
With the "Fedora Electronic Lab" along with its RPM package management, any electronic engineer can deploy his/her VLSI simulation environment quickly and easily. You will have tools for RTL simulation, place & route, timing closure up to digital physical design. In addition, 7 opensource technology libraries are available with a feature size up to 0.13µm.
You are free to decide whether your design process will be either top-secret or open to the world. However the simulation tools will be free. Processes can be modified and created graphically (if desired).
Extensive work was done to provide enough interfaces useful for your automated configuration scripts (e.g Makefiles).
On the Fedora Electronic Lab livecd, you will benefit from the KDE desktop environment in terms ofProject implementation tracking capabilities Visibility to assigned tasks, resources and issues
The Fedora Repositories entail a wide range of applications with graphical means to manage all aspects of data flow throughout an enterprise in a highly efficient manner.
You are opting for a fabless business model for trial (focusing on design and outsourcing the actual manufacturing) ?
The Fedora Project proposes a free fabless semiconductor business model for your needs, thus allowing you to stay focused on cutting-edge design, and not invest in manufacturing.
With the "Fedora Electronic Lab" along with its RPM package management, any electronic engineer can deploy his/her VLSI simulation environment quickly and easily. You will have tools for RTL simulation, place & route, timing closure up to digital physical design. In addition, 7 opensource technology libraries are available with a feature size up to 0.13µm.
You are free to decide whether your design process will be either top-secret or open to the world. However the simulation tools will be free. Processes can be modified and created graphically (if desired).Extensive work was done to provide enough interfaces useful for your automated configuration scripts (e.g Makefiles).
On the Fedora Electronic Lab livecd, you will benefit from the KDE desktop environment in terms of
The Fedora Repositories entail a wide range of applications with graphical means to manage all aspects of data flow throughout an enterprise in a highly efficient manner.
FEL - Test 2
Fedora Electronic Lab Live CD Test 2 was released today.
Use get-fedora wiki page to download a copy.
Use get-fedora wiki page to download a copy.
FEL: Importing OPJ project files
Yet another user is interested in Fedora Electronic Lab.
This one is eager to switch to Fedora from Ubuntu Feisty if Fedora can provide him tools to read his OriginLab PRO 7.5 project files. He pointed to the fact that on Ubuntu Feisty, LabPlot crashes while importing his OriginLab OPJ project files. Actually on Launchpad there is an open confirmed bug on LabPlot since February 2007.
For some reason Fedora's LabPlot does NOT crash on importing OriginLab OPJ project files. I've tested on i386 while kwizart did on x86_64. Well what's our trade secret ? We don't have any, if I remembered, except we are using system wide libraries during the build process.
Case study:
Either create an OriginLab PRO 7.5 project on windows:
Save the project.
or grab a copy from here.
# yum install LabPlot
on LabPlot : File -> Import OPJ Project (that's it)
Now that I've explained how to import data from OriginLab to LabPlot, one can also import their data from LabPlot to OriginLab. On LabPlot : Spreadsheet -> Export data. Save the data in a .dat file. Then use OriginLab to import that .dat file.
If one is using OriginLab in the past, he/she would be happy with LabPlot as it has sufficient features to compete with OriginLab. LabPlot on stable FC6 and F-7 does NOT crash.
This one is eager to switch to Fedora from Ubuntu Feisty if Fedora can provide him tools to read his OriginLab PRO 7.5 project files. He pointed to the fact that on Ubuntu Feisty, LabPlot crashes while importing his OriginLab OPJ project files. Actually on Launchpad there is an open confirmed bug on LabPlot since February 2007.
For some reason Fedora's LabPlot does NOT crash on importing OriginLab OPJ project files. I've tested on i386 while kwizart did on x86_64. Well what's our trade secret ? We don't have any, if I remembered, except we are using system wide libraries during the build process.
Case study:
Either create an OriginLab PRO 7.5 project on windows:
Save the project.or grab a copy from here.
# yum install LabPlot
on LabPlot : File -> Import OPJ Project (that's it)
Now that I've explained how to import data from OriginLab to LabPlot, one can also import their data from LabPlot to OriginLab. On LabPlot : Spreadsheet -> Export data. Save the data in a .dat file. Then use OriginLab to import that .dat file.If one is using OriginLab in the past, he/she would be happy with LabPlot as it has sufficient features to compete with OriginLab. LabPlot on stable FC6 and F-7 does NOT crash.
LiveCD: Fedora Electronic Lab - development version
The first development snapshot (04/09/2007) of Fedora Electronic Lab Livecd was released yesterday night.
This development livecd FEL is downloadable via torrent for i386.
It is meant for testing purposes only. This is to be a new spin with Fedora 8. See Features/FedoraElectronicLab for more of the details about the spin.
This development livecd FEL is downloadable via torrent for i386.
It is meant for testing purposes only. This is to be a new spin with Fedora 8. See Features/FedoraElectronicLab for more of the details about the spin.