Installation

There are a few different methods of installation depending on the user preference and experience.

Cloning from Github RevEDA Release repository

Revolution EDA release repository is in GitHub and is regularly updated with the latest code. The released code is licensed with Mozilla Public License v2 modified with Commons Clause. This basically means that the users are able to use and modify the code as they wish but they cannot sell it.

There are a few different methods to clone the repository:

  1. Command line: git clone https://github.com/eskiyerli/revedaRelease.git

  2. Using Github CLI: gh repo clone eskiyerli/revedaRelease

  3. Using Github Desktop: Under File menu, find clone Clone Repository... item and click. Choose Github.com tab and enter repository URL: https://github.com/eskiyerli/revedaRelease

Cloning Revolution EDA GitHub repository

Download a release from RevEDA Release repository

There are packages created with pyinstaller in RevEDA Release repository for both Linux and Windows OS. Head to https://github.com/eskiyerli/revedaRelease/tags and choose the latest release tag (currently at 0.4.1) and download and unzip the appropriate file for your operating system. For example, if you are using Linux:

unzip reveda_linux.zip
cd reveda
./reveda

should start the Revolution EDA editors.

Download from PyPi Repository

Revolution EDA PyPi RepositoryEntry

Revolution EDA is also available as a downloadable package in PyPi repository. Just use pip command to download and install:

~> pip install revolution-eda
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting revolution-eda
  Downloading revolution_eda-0.4.1-py3-none-any.whl (134 kB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 134.3/134.3 kB 1.9 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Requirement already satisfied: quantiphy>=2.19 in /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from revolution-eda) (2.19)
Requirement already satisfied: PySide6>=6.4.2 in /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from revolution-eda) (6.4.2)
Requirement already satisfied: shiboken6==6.4.2 in /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from PySide6>=6.4.2->revolution-eda) (6.4.2)
Installing collected packages: revolution-eda
Successfully installed revolution-eda-0.4.1

Then just start it reveda command.