I, Mychaela Falconia, am mostly a software girl, but every now and then I make
a foray into hardware design out of necessity: if I want to play with a toy
that doesn't exist, I have to design and build it myself if I wish to bring it
into existence.  When I did my first hw design (the OSDCU board for SDSL) and a
few very simple boards subsequent to that one, my hw design (EDA) environment
ran on a big UNIX machine named ifctfvax.  My tool suite (ueda) and the
associated part library (ifctf-part-lib) were maintained in a CVS repository on
ifctfvax.

The present Hg repository is an adaptation of my hw design environment from
UNIX to Linux; it has been created for the following two reasons:

1. Due to a downturn in my personal life circumstances, I had to shut ifctfvax
   down, and it may be a while before I can power it back up.

2. My current board design projects are part of the FreeCalypso libre phone
   project (www.freecalypso.org), and I don't expect to have much overlap
   between the libre phone community and the big old UNIX community - hence I
   thought it would be a good idea to make my FC hardware designs accessible to
   those who don't care much for big old UNIX.

To use these EDA tools, go into the ueda subdirectory and run 'make' followed
by 'make install'.  The ifctf-part-lib tree needs to be installed in (copied
verbatim to) /usr/local/eda.