Fedora Electronic Lab - Livecd F10 - Stable release

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

Name: Fedora Electronic Lab - Livecd
Version: F10 - Stable release
Type: KDE Scientific
Depend: KDE 4.x
License: Other
Homepage: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=65772

Description:
 [b]== Overview ==[/b]

"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.

For Fedora 8's release, "Fedora Electronic Lab"
targets mainly 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..

[b]== How to create his/her own livecd ==[/b]

Procedure has been detailed here:
[url]http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2007/09/creating-his-fedora-electronic-lab.html[/url]

I've documented other progress in my blog. Do
check it out for details. If you have some
recommendations or suggestions, please email me.

* [url]http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/[/url]
* [url]http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/[/url]
 
Work is also being done to help ubuntu get some of
the packages:
[url]http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-motu-science@lists.ubuntu.com/msg00000.html[/url]
[url]http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-motu-science%40lists.ubuntu.com/msg00004.html[/url]

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. 

[b]== Glossary ==[/b]

ASIC : Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
VLSI : Very Large Scale Integration, about 10⁶
to 10⁷ transistors

Changelog:
 25 November 2008: Fedora 10 Cambridge was
released.
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