currently i have windows xp based systems for programming dsp kit with code composer studio and for programming fpga with xilinx ise. can you suggest any free software solutions.
2009/1/5 David John <davidjohn...@gmail.com> > > 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" <subin.a.mat...@gmail.com> 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 > > > -- Jemshid KK "ascent" calicut, kerala, india 9349101566 0495 4013776 kakespeak.blogspot.com www.ascentengineers.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "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 ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
