Features/FedoraElectronicLab

Work is in progress to write a feature request for FEL

Feature Name

Fedora Electronic Lab

Summary

Fedora Electronic Lab is Fedora's high-end hardware design and simulations platform. This platform follows the semiconductor industry's current trend and maps in new design, simulation and verification methodologies with different design flows.

This page is a feature request to FESCo with respect to the work done behind the Fedora Electronic Lab.

Definitions

Below are terms used in this page which has other meanings in a normal opensource software community. These definitions are to prevent any misunderstandings from any side.

• Software : a design or simulation tool that can be compiled into a RPM package
• Package : Mechanical body that envelops a chip

Owner

• Name: Chitlesh Goorah
• email: < chitlesh [AT] fedoraproject DOT org>

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 42
• Last updated: 19 January 2009
• Percentage of completion: 60%

Detailed Description

Below entails the highlights of the major development item :

• Perl modules to extend vhdl and verilog support. These perl modules together with rawhide's gtkwave improves chip testing support.
• Introduction of Verilog-AMS modeling into ngspice
• Improved VHDL debugging support with gcov.
• Improved support for re-usable HDL packages as IP core
• Improved PLI support on both iverilog and ghdl
• Introduction of C-based methodologies for HDL testbenches and models.
• Improved co-simulation based hardware design.

Benefit to Fedora

Fedora benefits from FEL in various ways as FEL extends Fedora's commitments in the hardware design community.

The Fedora Project during the last 3 Fedora releases has established its roots deep into the opensource EDA community as a robust and successful opensource EDA provider. With this fourth FEL release, Fedora Electronic Lab userbase is now

• students/researchers
• lecturers
• Analo/Digital/Mixed Signal hardware designers (even Test engineers)
• project coordinators
• New opensource EDA developers
• field application engineers (who have never heard of FEL)
• ...(but not software geeks)

FEL is not a --package-only-EDA-tools-- community, but with a clear goal to strengthen the opensource EDA community, in terms of marketing, methodologies, design flows,..

FEL brings something unique that is missing in the opensource software community : direc

Scope

FEL

Contingency Plan

There is no need for backup plan as the work done behind FEL-11 is only to improve hardware design experience and expand FEL targeted userbase to Test & Verification Engineers.

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