Hi Subin I use FEL regularly for teaching at institutes, I know atleast 10 others in India who are doing so. FEL is well supported by Chitlesh & team http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/ and gets regular releases with each Fedora version, starting from Fedora 8.
Model Eng College, ECE dept is one of the departments running only open source software (mostly inside FEL) in their labs. It is part of the institute policy and I have seen it working very well in action. Please contact me in case you have trouble installing & running FEL. I can help you and also possibly come down to your campus for a 1-3 day workshop on how to use these tools to do good electronic designs. Regards David On Jan 4, 12:00 am, "Subin Mathew" <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, this is Subin, Mar Baselios College, s7 Ec, Kerala University, I > think its not only Kerala University, but also most other universities > in Kerala, prefer MATLAB as a program for signal processing and > SIMULINK ( a sub program inside MATLAB) for system simulation. > > These programs are taught (as far as i know) to Electronics and > Electrical students in various semesters. For the EC batch, the > program is taught in s4, s7 and the EEE in other semester ( which i > don't know). I have attached a copy of the syllabus(a jpeg file) of > only MATLAB from the S4 syllabus. > > The fault lies in not having a very stable program (like MATLAB) to > run most commands. I have used octave and found it just OK, but not > anywhere near the skill of MATLAB, the commands are similar, but > Octave or even GNU-plot fails in providing all features used in > today's electronic industry.(of course you can share the commands and > functions and make octave better) > > There was once an OS that came through called FEL (Fedora Electronics > LAB) but it didnt install properly or i think the md5sum ckeck didnt > work, its available at zyxware, and the softwares need a lot of > updation, and validation, but their backup services (or the prople who > once wrote those GPL programs) have been stopped, and some of the > documentation is in languages other than English. > > In S4 we had learned about simple stuff that could be done through > Octave, but in S7, i think Python also needs to be implemented for the > set of experiments, or so. The MATLAB works on large features like > DSP, Image Processing, Mathematics, Signal Processing simulatons and > so on, SO the question becomes when we have one program, why care to > learn more? > > Still Octave seemed to work with much lesser RAM suck-up when i tried > complex Amplitude and Frequency bandlimitted wave programs on it, > where as MATLAB drained our college Win-XP's ram for 5 to 10 minutes > fully. > > Guys trying to learn matlab programming, Octave is a nice choice too, > same commands work, the matlab looks like a notepad model (like gedit) > and all (command window, editor, graph's, errors) integrated as one > unit, where as Octave looks like terminal ( or like MATLAB's Command > window) and slower, but safer on the PC, as i didn't need to upgrade > to 1GB + ram (as MATLAB will hang your PC even at 1GB) > > S4 also uses circuit programs like PSPICE, ORCAD, but i heard some > colleges ( i dont know which) use also GEDA, (which i used for my s6 > project and found as easy as PSPICE except some minor errors here and > there). > > The S7 we use some more programs for reading from DSP kits, those > programs are usually shipped from Texas Instruments, so i guess then > we cant say anything to them. > > By the way have anyone used scilab , how is it? > > matlab.jpg > 51KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
