Re: [Fedora-electronic-lab] I need guidance

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Aveek Sen
<aveeksen@...> wrote:
> Hi!,
>
> I am a first year student of Electronics & Communication Engineering
> at NIT Agartala, India. I am the Fedora ambassador of that region.
>
> I want to know what I need to learn so that I am competent enough to
> make some additions to the FEL, in the form of something related to
> electronics.

Hello Aveek,

I'm looking for a command-wise compatibility of Alliance with Design
Compiler. Alliance is used for Digital design and Design Compiler is
an industry EDA tool.

If "herb" developers make some progress in the future, I will replace
alliance by herb. Herb is a fork of alliance.

The problem with Alliance/herb is that it demands a hard learning
curve. Thereby many people get fed up with alliance. At the same time,
a lot of the manual tasks(things which should be automated) are
required by the designer.

A simple example, to report the timing of any path, it takes a lot of
effort to first find the path. Hence as a designer point of view, I'm
spending 80% of the design time on the software rather  on the design
itself. This is very bad.