"Fedora Electronic Laboratory" is a feature for Fedora 10. Work is being done to ship a "Fedora Electronic Lab Livecd" (KDE based) along with F10's release. Meanwhile development FEL livecds will be released for testing.
"Fedora Electronic Lab" also targets 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. It is intended for electronic, VLSI students and hobbyists for educational purposes..
The idea of Fedora Electronic Lab is not to include as many as packages for electronic simulations, but mainly to ensure that design flows can be achieved. Because it's useless for the user to have those packages if his/her data can't be process with other applications thus implying the user will waste his/her time.
== Glossary ==
ASIC : Application-Specific Integrated Circuit VLSI : Very Large Scale Integration, about 10⁶ to 10⁷ transistorsLast changelog:
25 November 2008: Fedora 10 Cambridge was released, with FEL as a seperate KDE4 LiveDVD. This is a KDE based Livecd based on Fedora 8. * 2007/11/08 Official release with minor bug fixes. * 2007/11/01 Added abstract and flyer(8 pages) * 2007/10/19 More KDE tools for project management and F8's artwork added. * 2007/10/10 Kickstart file has been updated
Well, Fedora users are not only linux newbies or hobbyists.
We have to satisfy everyone with everything.
As for pcb, Fedora is shipping pcb and gEDA since FC4/5. I'm their package maintainer.
After more than one year of hard work, we are now(For F7 and F8) providing VLSI design tools as another option.
As you can see, you have tools depending on your expertise. Mine is VLSI design, so that's among the reasons, why I've included VLSI design tools for Fedora.
Not everyone uses Fedora the same way. This is what makes Fedora so special. :)
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Do you have somewhere .iso image for http ftp download? I can help you and offer server space for mirroring .iso image Thanx veki
Does it work with RH Linux 9.0 or RHEL 3, 4 or 5?
LOL! You know of geeks who actually make a hobby of VLSI design? I used to hobby in PCB design, but VLSI?? Too 'brainiac' for me.
Well, Fedora users are not only linux newbies or hobbyists. We have to satisfy everyone with everything. As for pcb, Fedora is shipping pcb and gEDA since FC4/5. I'm their package maintainer. After more than one year of hard work, we are now(For F7 and F8) providing VLSI design tools as another option. As you can see, you have tools depending on your expertise. Mine is VLSI design, so that's among the reasons, why I've included VLSI design tools for Fedora. Not everyone uses Fedora the same way. This is what makes Fedora so special. :)