The picture shows the respective eclipse-plugins, which will enhance :
- frontend design
- autogeneration of documentation and maintenance of professional datasheets
- Perl/Tcl scripting (Perl modules which featured as from FEL10)
- version controlled
experience for Fedora users.
Think Methodology and not random packaging.
This is sentence that many people have heard from me. Feeding design methodologies is one of the reasons why Fedora Electronic Lab is so attractive to many small companies.
Development behind FEL 12 focusses on adding value to the frontend design. Eclipse, being an industry standard IDE, is FEL’s main IDE for digital/embedded hardware design.
In the following blog posts, I will cover these features in depth, meanwhile you can try those plugins with yum on your Fedora 11. Only eclipse-eclox and eclipse-texlipse are not yet part of the Fedora collection. They are being reviewed #506429 and #506431 respectively.
Filed under: FEL, IP, eclipse, eda, fedora, fpga, perl, tcl, verilog, vhdl
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I assume “IP” stands for “Intellectual Property” here? Here’s why you shouldn’t use that term:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
Here is why you should use them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCores
The Open Hardware community also have free IP cores. FEL also strives to bridge the open software community and the open hardware community.