FEL - Fedora Electronic Lab

Wednesday, 26 November 2008 22:08

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 new design, simulation and verification methodologies with opensource EDA software. Fedora Electronic Lab still targets mainly the Micro-Nano Electronic Engineering field. A lot of effort is being made to spin out a LiveDVD based on Fedora KDE4 livecd. It introduces:

Tools for Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) Design Flow process to the Fedora Collection for ASIC Design Flow (both for Front End and Back End design);
Extra open source standard cell libraries supporting a feature size of 0.13µm;
Extracted spice decks which are simulated with gnucap/ngspice;
More interoperability between CAD tools.

It is intended for electronic, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) students and hobbyists for educational purposes.