[FEL]: Verilator bugfix release 3.845

A new Verilator release 3.845 has just been built for Fedora/EPEL repositories, which is an improvement over the previous FEL release of Verilator. Fix nested packed arrays and struct, bug600. [Jeremy Bennett] Packed arrays are now represented as a single linear vector in Verilated models. This may affect packed arrays that are public or accessed …

[FEL]: New stable release of perl-Verilog-Perl

Verilog-Perl 3.314(15926 – the PI version!) is released and pushed to Fedora and EPEL6 testing repositories. Verilog::Language 3.314 2012/02/27 ChangeLog – vhier –forest and –instance. [by John Busco] – Fix expansion of back-slashed escaped macros, bug441. [Alberto Del Rio] – Fix -F relative filename parsing, bug444. [Jeremy Bennett] – Fix c style var array declarations. …

[FEL]: fritzing as new year gift

On the 1st january 2012, fritzing was pushed into fedora stable repositories, by Ed Marshall. Fritzing is an open-source initiative to support designers, artists, researchers and hobbyists to work creatively with interactive electronics. We are creating a software and website in the spirit of Processing and Arduino, developing a tool that allows users to document …

[FEL]: Some minor updates

Here are some minor updates on the FEL: dinotrace – new update was pushed on testing repositories fped – new update was pushed to stable repositories geda-gaf  (Fixes broken dependency libgmp.so.3 on rawhide and FTBFS with glib headers, Fixes RHBZ#604288, RHBZ#710281, L#704829 – Refresh on in-use tab causes crashes) vhd2vl 2.4 – new update was …

Restoring Electronics-menu in Gnome3

With Gnome 3 shipped with Fedora 15, the menu “electronics” is no longer available on Fedora 15’s gnome-menu. It was rather annoying for me, as this custom “Electronics” menu remained the first thing that non-linux users would look at if they want to embrace Free(Fedora) Electronic Lab. Finally, I found how to fix it. It …

FEL: Toped 0.9.7 released

Toped 0.9.7 has been released. Among the new features: Further work on Calibre DRC visualisation. Browser supports cell name mode now. New utility (gds2vrml) for generation of VRML files. Improved memory footprint, improved TELL execution speed. Compressed files supported now for all input DB formats. Plug-in development infrastructure. Header files for a development package are …