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FUDConBrussels  - [email protected] 2007 Beyond software electronic lab Design, Simulate and Program electronics. Max Spevack [email protected] FUDCon Berlin Linuxtag 2009
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Page 1: A Fedora Electronic Lab Presentationchitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/fel_linuxtag09.pdf · Beyond software electronic lab Design, Simulate and Program electronics. ... FUDConBrussels

FUDConBrussels   ­ [email protected]

Beyond software

electronic lab

Design, Simulate and Program electronics.

Max [email protected] FUDCon Berlin

Linuxtag 2009

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

[ Fedora Electronic Lab ]

An opensource Design and Simulation platformFor Micro-Electronics

A one-stop linux distribution for hardware design

Marketing means for opensource EDA developers(Networking)

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

Identifying a Problem to solve !

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

Approx. 6 month design development cycle

Tackling Design Complexity

Lower Power, Lower Cost and Smaller Space

EDA Industry's neck squeezed in 2008 

Management (digital/analog) IP Portfolio

Electronic Designers Problems

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

A basic Design Flow

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

Example of RTL Synthesis versus scripting

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

FEL Development Methodology

The reason why FEL is so unique

All languages win

Bottom Up and Top down research  Abstraction

Current Industry Trend

Do not package one's favourite tools only

Think Methodology and Design Flow

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

Development Time during One cycle

Industry TrendMarket ResearchMeet the Outside World

Upstream TalksBuilding EDA community

Fedora PackagingAnd updates

Fixing the WorldMarketing

FEL LiveDVD

FeedbacksAnd wishes

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

Co Simulation Based Design

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

FEL-11 Leonidas

Perl modules from Veripool

Hoping gEDA/gaf 1.6

Ktechlab new release

C­based synthesis tool verilator

Centralized location for documentation

OVM/SystemC dropped

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

FEL User and Developer benefits

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

Long Term goals to achieve

Align FEL along big Vendors in terms of Marketing

Participation in a Standards committeeprogress of EDA standards under the IEEE-SA (Standards Association)

Interoperable PDK Libraries

Usage of opensource Industry standard file formats

Strengthen the opensource EDA community

Usage of a common design database

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

Questions & Answers

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FUDConBrussels 2007 ­ [email protected]

The                                              electronic lab team

fedora­electronic­lab­[email protected]


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