Fedora Electronic Lab LiveCD 12 - Changelog

What's new in Fedora Electronic Lab LiveCD 12:

November 20th, 2009

· This release highlights Fedora's commitment in strengthening the electronic hardware communities with an advanced Electronic Design Automation (EDA) environment. The latter

· was optimized to support OpenMoko development team.
· entails a peer review solution for hardware design.
· has Eclipse 3.5 series for VHDL/Verilog IPCores development and documentation.
· entails the latest gEDA/gaf release, openocd, simulators for 8051 microcontrollers,

What's new in Fedora Electronic Lab LiveCD F11:

June 16th, 2009

Existing RPM packages were updated improve design experience in terms of development time and debugging. The key highlights of the major development items puts the quality barrier higher than the previous releases:

· Perl modules to extend vhdl and verilog support. These Perl modules together with gtkwave improves chip testing support.
· Perl parsers for VHDL, Verilog and SystemC.
· Introduced collaborative development solutions.
· Introduction of Verilog-AMS modeling into ngspice.
· Improved VHDL debugging support with gcov.
· Improved support for re-usable HDL packages as IP core.
· Improved PLI support on both iverilog and ghdl
· Introduction of C-based methodologies for HDL testbenches and models.
· Improved co-simulation based hardware design.
· Introduction of design tools for DSP design flow.

· Eclipse, the comprehensive Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for embedded systems is also part of the collection. This IDE is included for the first time on the Livedvd (but available since a long time on Fedora repositories) entails plugins for C++, Perl and Version Control systems (CVS,GIT,SVN).

What's new in Fedora Electronic Lab LiveCD F10:

November 26th, 2008

· 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