[FEL]: New stable release of perl-Verilog-Perl

Verilog-Perl 3.314(15926 – the PI version!) is released and pushed to Fedora and EPEL6 testing repositories.

Verilog::Language 3.314 2012/02/27 ChangeLog
- vhier –forest and –instance. [by John Busco]
- Fix expansion of back-slashed escaped macros, bug441. [Alberto Del Rio]
- Fix -F relative filename parsing, bug444. [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix c style var array declarations. [by Jack Cummings]
- Fix –debug parsing after -f files, bug442. [Jeremy Bennett]
- Fix hang on recursive substitution `defines, bug443. [Alex Solomatnikov]

Filed under: Free Electronic Lab, perl, verilog

[FEL]: fritzing as new year gift

On the 1st january 2012, fritzing was pushed into fedora stable repositories, by Ed Marshall.

Fritzing is an open-source initiative to support designers, artists, researchers and hobbyists to work creatively with interactive electronics. We are creating a software and website in the spirit of Processing and Arduino, developing a tool that allows users to document their prototypes, share them with others, teach electronics in a classroom, and to create a pcb layout for professional manufacturing.

Fritzing is a nice project from our german friends, which I feel is a nice place to share their openhardware. They even provide Fab service. For those of you who uses the Italian project Arduino, you will enjoy fritzing along with arduino IDE. Happy prototyping !

Filed under: arduino, Free Electronic Lab, fritzing

[FEL]: Fix for strange characters on Arduino Ethernet

Thibault North has released an update of avr-gcc-4.6.2 which fixes the presence of strange characters when using the Arduino Ethernet due to a corrupted transmission.

Filed under: arduino, Free Electronic Lab

[FEL]: gplcver crash fix and openocd update

Shakthi updated gplcver to fix a crash upon launch.

Dean Glazeski updated openocd to 0.5.0.

 

Filed under: fedora, Free Electronic Lab

[FEL]: Some minor updates

Here are some minor updates on the FEL:

• dinotrace – new update was pushed on testing repositories
• fped – new update was pushed to stable repositories
• geda-gaf  (Fixes broken dependency libgmp.so.3 on rawhide and FTBFS with glib headers, Fixes RHBZ#604288, RHBZ#710281, L#704829 – Refresh on in-use tab causes crashes)
• vhd2vl 2.4 – new update was pushed on testing repositories
• Fritzing will soon be part of Fedora repositories
• Toped will have a technology editor which will reduce days of porting foundry’s tech files.

Filed under: Free Electronic Lab, gEDA

[FEL]: archimedes 2.0.0 stable release

Archimedes, the 2D Quantum Monte Carlo simulator for semiconductor devices, has been updated on both Fedora and EPEL testing repositories.

Since last FEL release, archimedes entails the following changes:

• The material parameters have been checked and modified
• Benchmark tests were carried out to check the validity of the framework
• Scattering phonons can be set to ON or OFF
• Support for Full band approach was implemented
• Parabolic, Kane and Full bank verified
• Full band parameters supports for all materials
• Initial implementation of FEM for Poisson
• Quantum Effective Potential modified
• Bohm Potential Model was implemented
• Calibrated Bohm Potential Model was implemented
• Density Gradient corrected and tested
• Full effective potential model was implemented

 

Filed under: asic

[FEL]: ngspice-23 stable release

ngspice-23 was released into Fedora and EPEL testing repositories with the following enhancements:

• New devices: HiSIM2 and HiSIM_HV models from Hiroshima University have been added.
• New features: transient noise simulation, a random voltage generator option trrandom and random telegraph noise added to independent voltage and current sources; command wrs2p to write a s-parameter file using Touchstone vers. 1 format.

Filed under: ngspice

[FEL]: Bug fix release pcb-0.20110918-3

A bugfix release of PCB layout tool editor has been pushed to Fedora testing repositories to resolve the following:

• Bug fix L#882712 Route styles are not properly loaded after nm conversion
• Bug fix L#699307 Panning problem when mouse button is released on scrollbar (sf-2923335)
• Bug fix L#891041 png export broken for tilted, square pads

Filed under: pcb

Swiss wine tasting

Got the opportunity to taste the following Swiss wines :

• Aigle, Vieux coucou, Grand Cru, 2010
• Aigle, Peau Rouge, Grand Cru, 2010
• Aigle, Gamaret, Evionnaz,2010
• Aigle, Pinor noir de Chamoson, 2008
• Yvorne, Le Florin, sélection Terravin
• Chablais, Malvoisie
• Chablais, Oeil-de-Perdrix
• Ollon, Pinot Noir
• Ollon, Rosé de Pinot Noir

Filed under: Private, Wine

the missing -ldl

export CFLAGS="%{optflags} -ldl -lpthread"

to fix

/usr/bin/ld: dynload.o: undefined reference to symbol  'dlsym@@GLIBC_2.2.5'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'dlsym@@GLIBC_2.2.5' is defined in DSO
/lib64/libdl.so.2 so try adding it to the linker command line
/lib64/libdl.so.2: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Filed under: fedora, gerbv