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Category Archives: eda
Nedit's Ctrl-y for emacs
Nedit has a very cool feature and I’ve even seen people using gvim have something similar. However emacs for some reason doesn’t. Is it because they don’t have users of their same field of application? Well who knows. The feature in question that with Ctrl-y on Nedit one can open a file whose filename and …
[FEL]: Recent updates are minor enhancements
The following packages have pushed (timeframe: from last week till today) to the repositories to ensure stability and extra device support. xcircuit 3.6.164 : Fixed crash while creating a symbol from schematic with no component name. ngspice rework 20 : I’ve blogged about ngspice rework 20 fedora release 1 here. Yesterday ngspice rework 20 fedora …
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[FEL]: Standard Cell characterisation – part one
Both xcircuit and ngspice has been updated for Fedora/EPEL-5 last week with some key features to boost productivity for standard cell characterisation. I’ll explain briefly in two blog posts, thus this one is the first post. Last week, Fedora users have updated their ngspice rework 19 to rework 20 (20-1.fc12), with the following key highlights …
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[FEL]: Circuit simulation improved
Paolo Nenzi, Dietmar, Holger Vogt and Robert Larice have contributed to the enhanced stability with the new ngspice rework 20 release. ngspice rework 20 has already been pushed to fedora stable repositories with the following enhancements: Model names can start with a number like 1N4001 .global command reinstated (was disabled) Error messages now display line …
[FEL]: Icarus Verilog bug statistics
Cary R. published some statistics about the amount of time spent in bug fixing for the most widely used opensource verilog simulator, Icarus Verilog. I’m quoting: Excluding the VHDL work, so far in 2009 we have had 25 invalid bug reports, 87 valid bug reports. Eight of these are still open. It took on average …
[FEL]: xcircuit 3.6 series tagged as stable
Tim Edwards has tagged version 3.6 to stable, and version 3.7 is the new development version. The stable release will only be updated with bug fixes, while all new development and experimental stuff will go into the development release. Users will experience fast UI responses with the new stable release 3.6.163, which has just been …
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22nd Interop Forum: 1/3 of EDA software is pirated
Karen Bartleson reports some interesting facts from the 22nd EDA Interoperability forum in her blog. Richard Paw represented the EDA Consortium’s OS Roadmap Committee. This group produces guidelines for operating system and hardware platforms that help unify EDA tool support around common platforms. (It drives customers crazy when the tools they purchase don’t support the …
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OpenMoko Hardware development on Fedora
Designing opensource hardware projects with opensource EDA software is a challenge for anyone, well not any-more with the upcoming Fedora 12. While assessing the risk of the project, one first needs to ensure that he/she has a robust and complete tool set before starting up with the development. In the past, the critical path of …
Fedora Electronic Lab 12 Release Notes
The Fedora Electronic Lab team and upstream opensource EDA developers are proud (on schedule 🙂 ) to publish the release notes of the upcoming Fedora Electronic Lab 12 ‘Constantine’ Livedvd. It is 26-pages long and entails in-depth information about each EDA tool which have undergone updates or introduced for this release.