electronic-lab October 2010

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[Fedora-electronic-lab] [Fedora Electronic Lab] #20: package myHDL
by fedora-badges 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

#20: package myHDL ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Reporter: chitlesh | Owner: chitlesh Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 12 Component: FEL | Version: devel Keywords: | ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Upstream was contacted to encourage them to package myHDL for FEL. Upstream responded by saying he will ask his community. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/ticket/20> Fedora Electronic Lab <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab> Design, Simulate and Program electronics.

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[fedora-electronic-lab] [Fedora Electronic Lab] #91: Package ForSyDe
by fedora-badges 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

#91: Package ForSyDe -----------------------------------------------------+---------------------- Reporter: shakthimaan | Owner: shakthimaan Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 13 Component: FEL | Version: devel Keywords: formal method, hardware design, haskell | -----------------------------------------------------+---------------------- Package ForSyDe (Haskell) by Prof. Ingo Sander from kth.se. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ForSyDe http://www.ict.kth.se/forsyde/ -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/ticket/91> Fedora Electronic Lab <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab> Design, Simulate and Program electronics.

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yum groupinstall Electronic Lab & Milkymist
by Chitlesh GOORAH 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Hello there, We have two yum groupinstall that we are maintaining : - Electronic Lab - Milkymist The FEL LiveDVD will be based on both groups. The reason why I split it in two is simply because the milkymist developers will not be interested in ASIC tools. Any objections ? Shakthi, can you verify if all your packages are listed under the "Electronic Lab" yum group ? thank you, Chitlesh

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a fel logo mockup
by Chitlesh GOORAH 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Hello there, This is a mockup for the upcoming "Free Electronic Lab" logo. It needs lots of effort to make it an official logo. Thus, it may take some time, till we can get a final version. If not, like the rest of the FEL, things get improved over time :) I'll be delighted to receive some comments on it, thus it may help me get some inspiration ) cheers, Chitlesh

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Avalanche breakdown
by Alain PORTAL 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

Hi, I'm a new ngspice user (and a new spice user) and I should want to know if the avalanche breakdown effect of a bjt is simulated. I'm trying to simulate a small part of the following circuit: http://www.holmea.demon.co.uk/Avalanche/Avalanche.htm (only +130V, R2, Q1, R7, R4, R8, R5) Here is the description circuit: * Pulse generator .include 2N3904.ckt VCC 1 0 DC 130 R1 1 2 100k R2 3 0 3.3k R3 4 5 22 R4 5 0 10 R5 5 6 47 C1 2 0 50p Q1 2 3 4 2N3904 .tran 100n 1000U .plot v(5) 2N3904.ckt * Model generated on Aug 07, 01 * MODEL FORMAT: SPICE3 .MODEL 2n3904 npn +IS=1.26532e-10 BF=206.302 NF=1.5 VAF=1000 +IKF=0.0272221 ISE=2.30771e-09 NE=3.31052 BR=20.6302 +NR=2.89609 VAR=9.39809 IKR=0.272221 ISC=2.30771e-09 +NC=1.9876 RB=5.8376 IRB=50.3624 RBM=0.634251 +RE=0.0001 RC=2.65711 XTB=0.1 XTI=1 +EG=1.05 CJE=4.64214e-12 VJE=0.4 MJE=0.256227 +TF=4.19578e-10 XTF=0.906167 VTF=8.75418 ITF=0.0105823 +CJC=3.76961e-12 VJC=0.4 MJC=0.238109 XCJC=0.8 +FC=0.512134 CJS=0 VJS=0.75 MJS=0.5 +TR=6.82023e-08 PTF=0 KF=0 AF=1 In the circuit, C1 replace the open-ended 50 ohms coaxial line. Regards, Alain

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FEL Live DVD 14 RC1
by Chitlesh GOORAH 24 Oct '10

24 Oct '10

Hello there, This is a small announcement about FEL 14 RC 1 release, intended for testing purposes only. You can try the Live DVD and reports would be appreciated. http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/14.RC1/Live/Fedora-14-i… http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/14.RC1/Live/Fedora-14-x… There are a set of test cases at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:LiveCD_Test_Cases Cheers, Chitlesh

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[Fedora-electronic-lab] [Fedora Electronic Lab] #74: ¿Possible inclusion of Arduino IDE in FEL?
by fedora-badges 09 Oct '10

09 Oct '10

#74: ¿Possible inclusion of Arduino IDE in FEL? -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Reporter: q2dg | Owner: chitlesh Type: defect | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Fedora 12 'Constantine' Component: FEL | Version: devel Keywords: Arduino IDE | -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Hello everybody. If you don´t know it, Arduino (http://www.arduino.cc) is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators. The microcontroller on the board is programmed using the Arduino programming language (based on GPL Wiring -http://www.wiring.org.co-) and the Arduino development environment (based on GPL/LGPL Processing -http://www.processing.org-). Arduino projects can be stand-alone or they can communicate with software on running on a computer. The boards can be built by hand or purchased preassembled; the software can be downloaded for free. The hardware reference designs (CAD files) are available under an open-source license, you are free to adapt them to your needs (you can see http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Hardware and http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Policy) I think it would be very nice is Fedora could incorporate Arduino IDE out- of-the-box. You can download it from http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software, and you can see dependencies requirements at http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Learning/Linux (specific intructions for Fedora 11 are written at http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Linux/Fedora) If you want, you can gather more information from the official web. -Board reference: http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Board -Language reference: http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/HomePage -Language reference (extended): http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Extended -Code examples: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage -Extra Libraries: http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Libraries -Other resources: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Links -Projects of the community: http://www.arduino.cc/playground/ -For developing Arduino in deep: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Hacking/HomePage -Forum: http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl Thanks a lot! -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/ticket/74> Fedora Electronic Lab <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab> Design, Simulate and Program electronics.

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Fwd: Milkymist tools in FEL
by Chitlesh GOORAH 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sébastien Bourdeauducq <sebastien(a)milkymist.org> Date: Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:30 PM Subject: Milkymist tools in FEL To: Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh(a)fedoraproject.org>, devel(a)lists.milkymist.org Hi, Thank you very much for your enthusiasm getting the Milkymist tools into FEL :) Following our phone call this Monday, here is the list of what we need (in no particular order). I have listed all the "special" stuff, you probably have some of it already. * The latest UrJTAG, with Michael Walle's patches merged and FJMEM for Spartan-6. These patches add free software support for configuring the FPGA on our boards and reprogramming the flash. The patches have been merged upstream into UrJTAG. Michael: do we need anything special for out-of-the-box FJMEM support, or is it included in the stock UrJTAG installation? * Michael's modified OpenOCD [1], not merged upstream yet. This enables in-circuit JTAG debugging of the Milkymist SoC. * Michael's modified QEMU [2] with LM32 and Milkymist support, not merged upstream yet. * lm32-elf toolchain (including GCC, Binutils and GDB). I recommend GCC 4.5.1 that has the LM32 support included and a reasonable amount of bugs. No patches are needed for these tools, they work as released by the FSF. Newlib is not needed for this toolchain, which makes this item independent of the licensing discussion you had lately [2]. This toolchain is used for building the Milkymist BIOS, the demo renderer and the experimental uClinux kernel. All those come with their own built-in libc. * Scilab [4], used for building the demo renderer. The GUI is not needed for our purposes. * Lemon parser generator [5] (you may already have this one). * RE2C [6] (same comment). * An easy to configure/pre-installed TFTP server (same comment) for netbooting the board. * lm32-rtems toolchain, which uses newlib so I hope the licensing discussions [3] can be settled soon. Again, I recommend the GCC 4.5.1 based toolchain. There are already Fedora RPM packages available at the RTEMS FTP [7] (browse around for SRPMS and other versions) and you can see [8] for generic build instructions. * An installation of the modified RTEMS [9] (not fully merged upstream yet) built for Milkymist. * The flterm serial terminal and firmware download program [10]. * libGD [11] and its development headers (you most probably already have this) that we use in the software build process and through VPI in some Verilog test benches that process images. * FTDI libraries [12] (probably already included) for using Yanjun Luo's Milkymist One JTAG adapter [13] with UrJTAG. * Native (x86) clang (LLVM), used for building some host-side tools in the build process. * SRecord [14]. * xxd hexdump command. Phew! I hope I have not forgotten anything. Anyway, I'll be happy to install FEL and try to build Milkymist stuff and use the JTAG tools to check that nothing is missing :) If all of this sounds too much for you, I can prioritize the list. There are no FPGA tools (except maybe the JTAG programmer), those are proprietary and non-redistributable and there are no serious free equivalents. You already have the Verilog simulators that we use (Icarus Verilog + GPL Cver) and GTKWave. Cheers, S. [1] http://git.serverraum.org/?p=mw/openocd-lm32.git;a=summary [2] http://git.serverraum.org/?p=mw/qemu-lm32.git;a=summary [3] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2010-October/001400.html [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/SciTech/Scilab [5] http://www.hwaci.com/sw/lemon/ [6] http://re2c.org/ [7] ftp://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/linux/4.11/fedora/14/i386/ [8] http://milkymist.org/wiki/index.php?title=Run_RTEMS_on_the_Milkymist_One [9] http://github.com/fallen/rtems-milkymist [10] http://github.com/lekernel/milkymist/blob/master/tools/flterm.c [11] http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page [12] http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/ [13] http://lekernel.net/blog/?p=1266 [14] http://srecord.sourceforge.net/

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Collaboration: Milkymist and FEL
by Chitlesh GOORAH 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Hello there, It is with great pleasure, we are collaborating with the Milkymist community to provide them with a proper out-of-the-box electronic hardware development environment with only free and opensource software. Their founder provided us a list of action items, which is listed on the https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/wiki/Milkymist We have a couple of action items to work on. I would appreciate if you can help us achieve our dearest goal: ensure opensource hardware development with opensource EDA software. The Milkymist™ project develops a comprehensive open source solution for the live synthesis of interactive visual effects for VJs (video performance artists). It consists of three sub-projects: - the Milkymist™ One interactive VJ station, - the Milkymist™ SoC and - the Flickernoise VJ software. Chitlesh Goorah

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Coriolois2 Package
by vivek niwane 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Respected, Is there possibilities to include Coriolis2 package as a part of FEL? I tried to install on FEL-12 it as guided here: http://www-asim.lip6.fr/recherche/coriolis/gettingStarted/node7.html except root # rpm -ivh hurricane-devel-2.2-20060225.i386.rpm This didn't worked for me. I seek help for installing this package. Sincerely, Vivek

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