About us
Fedora Electronic Lab is a subproject of the Fedora Project dedicated to EDA tools and open hardware content. Every 6 months a new version is released for free download. The goal is not only package those tools for you, but shape those tools to satisfy design methodologies. For more information, visit our developers' blog
Fedora Project is an open community for software development, sponsored by Red Hat Inc. The Fedora Project supports our web hosting facilities and granted Chitlesh the legal right to use the trademark "fedora" on Fedora Electronic Lab. The Fedora Project is a non-profit organisation which strives to give the cutting-edge software technologies for free.
History
Three years ago,
Chitlesh Goorah proposed "Fedora Electronic Lab" to the Fedora community by providing existing opensource EDA tools for ASIC design. The main objective was to ensure that all the opensource EDA tools can exchange data between them (ensuring at least a basic design flow). Since each of the design tool were being developed individually each has its own storage mechanism (make it difficult for interoperability). Thereby Fedora worked with various upstream developers to shape their EDA tools so that universities or small companies can opt for these tools.
Compiling each of these tools individually and building his/her own design flow at home is very difficult. Thereby with Fedora Electronic Lab, users will only use the tools instead of compiling it from scratch. Fedora Electronic Lab follows the industry trends with what is available on the opensource ecosystem. Hence FEL users will benefit from such deployment infrastructure for free and quickly.
Thibault North was introduced to Fedora Electronic Lab by Joerg Simon a german Fedora ambassador. For F-9 and F-10, Thibault was the Fedora Electronic Lab Release engineer focussing on the quality of the LiveDVD being spinned.
During F-10 development cycle, Aanjhan Ranganathan joined the team and revived Fedora Electronic Lab's marketing in India. He performs bug triage within the community, till F-11'S release.
Shakthi Kannan stepped in to enhance the existing FEL platform during F-12 development cycle. He added PLA tool support and simulators for 8051 microcontrollers. He is responsible for FEL's community development and plays a vital role FEL's marketing in India.
