electronic-lab January 2012

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[fedora-electronic-lab] [Fedora Electronic Lab] #90: Kansas Lava
by fedora-badges 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

#90: Kansas Lava ---------------------------------------------------+------------------------ Reporter: shakthimaan | Owner: shakthimaan Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 13 Component: FEL | Version: devel Keywords: Hardware, verification, formal, logic | ---------------------------------------------------+------------------------ Package Kansas Lava: http://www.ittc.ku.edu/csdl/fpg/KansasLava This is expected to have better writeVhdl features, than Chalmers Lava 2000. Release expected last week of 2009. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/ticket/90> Fedora Electronic Lab <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab> Design, Simulate and Program electronics.

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[fedora-electronic-lab] [Fedora Electronic Lab] #97: Package Feldspar
by fedora-badges 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

#97: Package Feldspar -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Reporter: shakthimaan | Owner: chitlesh Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 13 Component: FEL | Version: devel Keywords: | -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Package Feldspar: http://feldspar.sourceforge.net/ -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/ticket/97> Fedora Electronic Lab <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab> Design, Simulate and Program electronics.

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Xcircuit Error
by chetan patil 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Hi, I'm trying to run xcircuit, however following error occurs : chetanpatil@chetanpatil ~]$ xcircuit X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 53 (X_CreatePixmap) Value in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 5160 Current serial number in output stream: 5162 Also tried running directly using GUI however no response there too. -- Thank You and Warm Regards, Chetan Arvind Patil, www.chetanpatil.info

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urjtag: looking for comaintainers
by Scott Tsai 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Dear all, I'm looking for comaintainers for the urjtag package: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/urjtag urjtag supports a variety of popular and cheap JTAG cables. Can program FPGAs by reading the SVF files generated by the Altera and Xilinx tools and comes with a Python binding for poking around the JTAG chain. Pending F16 update is here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/urjtag-0.10-2.fc16.20111215gite1a42… Thanks for the package review, Chitlesh :)

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[fedora-electronic-lab] [Fedora Electronic Lab] #100: Package UrJTAG
by fedora-badges 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

#100: Package UrJTAG -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Reporter: shakthimaan | Owner: chitlesh Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 14 Component: FEL | Version: devel Keywords: jtag | -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Package UrJTAG: http://urjtag.org/ -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/ticket/100> Fedora Electronic Lab <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab> Design, Simulate and Program electronics.

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[Free Electronic Lab] #115: Package gmm
by fedora-badges 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

#115: Package gmm -------------------------+----------------------- Reporter: shakthimaan | Owner: chitlesh Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: EPEL-6 Component: FEL | Version: devel Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | -------------------------+----------------------- gmm is required by GetFEM++. Package review request uploaded at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770806 -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/ticket/115> Free Electronic Lab <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab> Design, Simulate and Program electronics.

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[Free Electronic Lab] #112: Package 3D-ICE
by fedora-badges 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

#112: Package 3D-ICE -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Reporter: shakthimaan | Owner: shakthimaan* Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: EPEL-6 Component: FEL | Version: devel Keywords: | -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Package 3D-ICE from ESL, EPFL: http://esl.epfl.ch/3d-ice.html -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab/ticket/112> Free Electronic Lab <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-electronic-lab> Design, Simulate and Program electronics.

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Open Hardware Talk at linux.conf.au 2012
by Scott Tsai 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Bruce Perens recently gave a talk on open hardware at linux.conf.au: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/475742/9f1954a05f0639df/ Most reader would probably want to skip to the "Open hardware" section in the link. I did some research on the open hardware projects mentioned and their software packaging status in Fedora that I'd like to share here: 1. Arduino (done) arduino-1.0 in F17, arduino-0.22 in F16: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773519 2. DSO Quad hand held oscilloscope (no software to package) The DSO Quiad could use a free software package that can read its textual .DAT waveform format but I couldn't find one by googling. There's a gcc port of the official firmware: https://github.com/tmbinc/dsoquad so an ARM Cortex-M3 cross compiler toolchain would help. Maybe https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=766166 (Review Request: cross-gcc) As a general ARM toolchain, it doesn't enable ARM/Thumb interworking though (--enable-interwork) 3. Bus Pirate: http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate 3-1. OpenOCD (done): latest version 0.5.0 already in Fedora 3-2. BPXSVFplayer for FPGA programming (not packaged) http://code.google.com/p/the-bus-pirate/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fscript… The firmwares and PC software source code is in one big SVN repo. Packaging could be "fun". 3-3. avrdude for AVR programming (upstream update available) avrdude-5.10 in Fedora should support the Bus Pirate. There is an upstream 5.11.1 update though: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=736164 Maybe Hans Ulrich Niedermann could use some co maintainers on the AVR tools. 3-4. flashrom for PC bios flash programming (done): latest version 0.9.4 already in Fedora 3-5. ols for use as a logic analyzer (not packaged) 3-6. PirateScope for use as a low speed oscilloscope (not packaged) https://github.com/tgvaughan/PirateScope 3-7. spisniffer http://code.google.com/p/the-bus-pirate/source/browse/#svn/trunk/scripts/po… 4. Papilio One FPGA board (Xilinx Spartan-3E plus FTDI 2232D USB chip) 4-1. Papilio Loader (not packaged) a.k.a. butterfly loader, the code can use the open source libftdi on Linux but upstream bundles the proprietary FTDI windows driver and library in their git repo: https://github.com/GadgetFactory/Papilio-Loader 4-2. ZPUino toolchain (not packaged) The ZPU is an open source processor in VHDL designed for FPGA applications. It's a stack machine with a GNU toolchain port: http://repo.or.cz/w/zpu.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/zpu/docs/zpu_arch.html The "ZPUino" is an ZPU SOC with microcontroller like I/O interfaces similar to an Arduino board. 4-3. ZPUino IDE (not packaged) A modified version of the Arduino IDE that allows sketches to run on the ZPUino running on the Papilio.

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[Event Report] 25th International Conference on VLSI Design, Hyderabad, India, Jan 7-11, 2012
by Shakthi Kannan 12 Jan '12

12 Jan '12

Hi, I attended the 25th International Conference on VLSI Design and 11th International Conference on Embedded Systems [1] between January 7-11, 2012 at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre [2], Hyderabad, India. The first two days consisted of tutorial sessions, and the next three days had the conference presentations [3]. There were also exhibit stalls from different companies. On the first day I attended the tutorial session on SystemC AMS extensions [4] by Markus Damm [5], Sumit Adhikari [6], and François Pecheux [7]. Chitlesh Goorah [8] had earlier tried to get SystemC into Fedora and Fedora Electronic Lab [9], but, due to licensing issues [10] it could not be included. SystemC-AMS is now released under Apache license. Open SystemC Initiative and Accellera Unite have now integrated to become Accellera Systems Initiative [11]. We hope to work with them to get their sources under a single free/open source software license. François Pecheux is from Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 [12], Pierre & Marie Curie University (UPMC) [13], and we already ship their free/open source EDA tools in Fedora. On day two, I attended the tutorial session by Sridhar Arvind [14] on 3D-ICE [15], a free/open source interlayer cooling emulator from Embedded System Laboratory [16], Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne [17], Switzerland. I have already been working with Sridhar, Prof. David Atienza [18] and Alessandro Vincenzi [19] on testing 3D-ICE on Fedora. I had built and tested the dependency SuperLU [20] library and the 3D-ICE package before the tutorial session. Their software has already been downloaded by over 70 research labs around the world. I will push our tested changes to them. On the later half of the day, I attended a session on verification constraint complexity. Teal [21] is a useful verification utility and connection library that has support for constraints and parameter control. The authors of the tool had agreed to release it as free/open source software, and we also ship it in Fedora. On the following three days of the conference, I attended various paper presentations from different tracks from reconfigurable architectures to methods in AMS optimization. I met Prof. Susmita Sur-Kolay [22] from the Indian Statistical Institute [23], Kolkata, India where they run Fedora in their labs. They also wished to use the 3D-ICE tool and GPU tools in their labs. I also visited the exhibit stalls meeting different people from the industry and academia. There are quite a few interesting free/open source tools that users can benefit from, and we will work in making them available in Fedora. In 2013, the conference will be held in Pune. Thanks to Red Hat for sponsoring my travel and participation at the conference. SK [1] 25th International Conference on VLSI Design. http://vlsiconference.com/vlsi2012/ [2] Hyderabad International Convention Centre. http://www.hicc.com/ [3] Conference schedule. http://vlsiconference.com/vlsi2012/conf_schedule.htm [4] SystemC-AMS extensions. http://www.systemc-ams.org/ [5] Markus Damm. https://www.fp7-smartcode.eu/ecws2/biosketch/damm [6] Sumit Adhikari. http://rfamsarchitects.weebly.com/ [7] François Pecheux. http://www.lip6.fr/actualite/personnes-fiche.php?ident=P102 [8] Chitlesh Goorah. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Chitlesh [9] Fedora Electronic Lab. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/fel/ [10] Distributing SystemC in Fedora. http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-electronic-lab/msg00117.html [11] Accellera Systems Initiative. http://www.accellera.org/home/ [12] Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6. http://www.lip6.fr/index.php?LANG=en [13] UPMC. http://www.upmc.fr/en/index.html [14] Sridhar Arvind. http://people.epfl.ch/arvind.sridhar [15] 3D-ICE. http://esl.epfl.ch/3d-ice.html [16] Embedded Systems Laboratory, EPFL. http://esl.epfl.ch [17] Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. http://www.epfl.ch/index.en.html [18] Prof. David Atienza. http://people.epfl.ch/david.atienza [19] Alessandro Vincenzi. http://people.epfl.ch/alessandro.vincenzi [20] SuperLU library. http://crd-legacy.lbl.gov/~xiaoye/SuperLU/ [21] Teal. http://www.trusster.com/products/teal/ [22] Prof. Susmita Sur-Kolay. http://www.isical.ac.in/~ssk/ [23] Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. http://www.isical.ac.in/ -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com

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Fedora-16-i686-Live-Electronics-Lab and open access
by Yusuf Matcheswala 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

I have recently downloaded the above FEL version from the website and am still trying to familiarize myself with tools and documentation. I was wondering if this supports Open Access database. If so is there any documentation related to this? Thanks

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