Hello Clive Maxfield, I have just read your post [1] "EDA Rescue Plan", which got my attention. However, like you I was more interested on what are the EDA tools Blue Pearl are proposing. Since you mentioned that you are constantly being surprised to discover established EDA vendors, let me introduce you to "Fedora Electronic Lab". [2] Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL), being a subset of the Fedora Project, strives to give users the best experience with opensource EDA tools. Each 6 months, the Fedora Project releases a new version of our Linux distribution "Fedora", together with a special LiveDVD dedicated for electronics. This LiveDVD available for free is intended to serve as an electronic simulation platform, on which users can work on their ASIC design, embedded design,.. . While Fedora is engineered by Red Hat Inc. (the leader in Entreprise Linux) together with the community, our users benefit freely the cutting-edge technologies Red Hat is working on their RHEL 6. Our latest statistics proved that Fedora has more than 9.5 million users around the world and FEL has at least 1% of the user share. We (as non-profit community members) packaged opensource tools and work with their developers to ensure interoperability between our tools and that our users can deploy quickly and efficiently with our mature RPM/YUM deployment mechanism. In a matter of fact, we also provide marketing facilities as much as I can for those developers. (This email is an example). The developers of FEL's tools are working hard to keep their applications up-to-date with such a technological race in the EDA world. We don't claim to be in competition with Synopsys or Cadence, however we follow them closely and see how we can satisfy the needs of our users (end-users, students, lecturers, ..) Not only we provide EDA tools for free, but also a Linux Operating system which is the upstream of Red Hat Entreprise Linux. While mostly all ASIC design centers run RHEL for their Cadence and Synopsys tools, we believe our users will enjoy the same professional experience while designing their chips or embedded code on Fedora Electronic Lab. I would appreciate if you could spare some time writing a post about Fedora Electronic Lab. Since we are a non-profit organization, your readers would be interested in our EDA solutions whether the latter suits their personal use or deployment in an academic institutions. I welcome you to visit FEL's website at [2] and if there are any way we can assist you please let me know. [1]: http://www.pldesignline.com/212300434 [2]: http://chitlesh.fedoraproject.org/FEL [3]: http://fedoraproject.org Kind Regards, Chitlesh GOORAH _______________________________________________ Fedora-electronic-lab-list mailing list Fedora-electronic-lab-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-electronic-lab-list
