Fedora Electronic Lab - LiveDVD

== Overview ==

"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.

"Fedora Electronic Lab" also targets 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..

== How to create his/her own liveDVD ==

Procedure has been detailed here:
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/livedvd.html

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

* http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/
* http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/

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.

== Glossary ==

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

25 November 2008: Fedora 10 Cambridge was released, with FEL as a seperate KDE4 LiveDVD.
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