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
How To Test
User Experience
Dependencies
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.
Documentation
Release Notes
Comments and Discussion