en-US/ElectronicDesignAssistants.xml en-US/Release_Notes.xml

[John J. McDonough]

 en-US/ElectronicDesignAssistants.xml |  130 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 en-US/Release_Notes.xml              |    2 
 2 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

New commits:
commit c30612fb3a422c5deb0d02da80f5ba2c3c314a4c
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Wed Apr 1 08:15:17 2009 -0400

    Add Electronic Design Automation content from wiki
    
    Also reorder section to place Sci/Tech first, AR last

diff --git a/en-US/ElectronicDesignAssistants.xml b/en-US/ElectronicDesignAssistants.xml
index 1391357..2cb65b4 100644
--- a/en-US/ElectronicDesignAssistants.xml
+++ b/en-US/ElectronicDesignAssistants.xml
@@ -3,9 +3,129 @@
 ]>
 
 <section>
-        <title>Electronic Design Assistants</title>
-        <remark>This beat is located here: <ulink type="http" url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_EDA_Beat">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_EDA_Beat</ulink></remark>
-        <para>
-		TBD
+  <title>Electronic Design Automation</title>
+  <!--<remark>This beat is located here: <ulink type="http" url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_EDA_Beat">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_EDA_Beat</ulink></remark>-->
+
+  <para>
+    Fedora Electronic Lab is Fedora's high-end hardware design and
+    simulation platform. This platform provides different hardware
+    design flows based on the semiconductor industry's current
+    trend. FEL maps in three methodologies {design, simulation and
+    verification} with opensource EDA software.
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+    FEL's website : <ulink type="http"
+    url="http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/">http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/</ulink>.
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+    The latest methodology included on FEL platform is the means for
+    verifications and debugging for digital based designs.
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+    The perl modules included for F11 brings a new methodology under
+    the Fedora umbrella. This methodology is Verification together
+    with possibilities for co-simulation based design and
+    simulation. Fedora remains the sole linux distribution
+    distributing FEL methodologies for hardware design, simulation and
+    verification.
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+    Updates of the existing RPM packages have improved design
+    experience in terms of development time and debugging. While FEL
+    understands Moore's Law is important for its userbase, these
+    improvements will allow users to design a more efficient and
+    successful designs with opensource software.
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+    These enhancements brought to the Fedora umbrella increase chances
+    that Fedora users can complete their high-end hardware design even
+    if scaled to 90nm and wrap up their project with final tapeout.
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+    FEL bridges 2 different opensource communities : 
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  opensource software community
+	</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  opensource hardware community
+	</para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+    After 3 consecutive and successive releases, FEL/Fedora is
+    regarded as the Leader in this field by both communities due to
+    its 3-years experience and quality EDA solutions.
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+    Below entails the highlights of the major development items to put
+    the quality barrier higher than the previous releases:
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  Perl modules to extend vhdl and verilog support. These perl
+	  modules together with rawhide's gtkwave improves chip
+	  testing support.
+	</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  Introduction of Verilog-AMS modeling into ngspice 
+	</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  Improved VHDL debugging support with gcov. 
+	</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  Improved support for re-usable HDL packages as IP core 
+	</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  Improved PLI support on both iverilog and ghdl 
 	</para>
-    </section>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  Introduction of C-based methodologies for HDL testbenches
+	  and models.
+	</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  Improved co-simulation based hardware design. 
+	</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  Introduction of design tools for DSP design flow
+	</para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+    Users who are using the standard fedora live media and even 
+    <screen>
+      yum groupinstall 'Electronic Lab'
+    </screen>
+    to deploy this high-end hardware design, simulation and
+    verification platform.
+  </para>
+
+</section>
diff --git a/en-US/Release_Notes.xml b/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
index bc50457..31aba14 100644
--- a/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
+++ b/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@
 	</section>
 	<section>
 		<title>Changes in Fedora for specific audiences</title>
-		<xi:include href="AmateurRadio.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
 		<xi:include href="ScientificTechnical.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
 		<xi:include href="ElectronicDesignAssistants.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
+		<xi:include href="AmateurRadio.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
 	</section>
 	<xi:include href="Legal.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
 	<xi:include href="Revision_History.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />