# HG changeset patch # User Space Falcon # Date 1437369037 0 # Node ID 0971b400f35a0e595a1fe0fac9a62b1e98ef7f1b # Parent 048d55d50ff33f2232edf2b8dcd64c02bbff0169 top level README added diff -r 048d55d50ff3 -r 0971b400f35a README --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/README Mon Jul 20 05:10:37 2015 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +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.