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author Space Falcon <falcon@ivan.Harhan.ORG>
date Mon, 20 Jul 2015 05:10:37 +0000
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1 I, Mychaela Falconia, am mostly a software girl, but every now and then I make
2 a foray into hardware design out of necessity: if I want to play with a toy
3 that doesn't exist, I have to design and build it myself if I wish to bring it
4 into existence. When I did my first hw design (the OSDCU board for SDSL) and a
5 few very simple boards subsequent to that one, my hw design (EDA) environment
6 ran on a big UNIX machine named ifctfvax. My tool suite (ueda) and the
7 associated part library (ifctf-part-lib) were maintained in a CVS repository on
8 ifctfvax.
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10 The present Hg repository is an adaptation of my hw design environment from
11 UNIX to Linux; it has been created for the following two reasons:
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13 1. Due to a downturn in my personal life circumstances, I had to shut ifctfvax
14 down, and it may be a while before I can power it back up.
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16 2. My current board design projects are part of the FreeCalypso libre phone
17 project (www.freecalypso.org), and I don't expect to have much overlap
18 between the libre phone community and the big old UNIX community - hence I
19 thought it would be a good idea to make my FC hardware designs accessible to
20 those who don't care much for big old UNIX.
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22 To use these EDA tools, go into the ueda subdirectory and run 'make' followed
23 by 'make install'. The ifctf-part-lib tree needs to be installed in (copied
24 verbatim to) /usr/local/eda.