[yocto-ab] YP Advisory Board VOTE: Aldec, YP Participant

[Chris Hallinan]

OK, I'll play devil. (Note, not his advocate.)
My vote: No.
Encourage them to "pay to play."

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Jeff Osier-Mixon <jefro at jefro.net> wrote:

> Hi folks - with 200 employees, these folks are a bit larger than our
> standard YP Participants, but we have voted to allow companies this
> large in the past. Please vote yes/no for Aldec for YP Participant.
> (and yes, I will encourage them to join the project)
>
> Submitted on Tuesday, August 16, 2016 - 15:22
> Submitted by anonymous user: [209.118.195.162]
> Submitted values are:
>
>    --Contact information--
>      Organization / project name: Aldec Inc
>      Contact name: Louie De Luna
>      Contact email address: louied at aldec.com
>      URL to organization or product link:
>      https://www.aldec.com/en/products/embedded/tysom
>      Registration date: 2016-08-16
>      Compliance Agreement revision: 1.0
>
>
> Criteria:
>   - Visibly participating in the Yocto Project community. Please
> describeyour
> participation in the comments section below.: Yes
>   - Working towards and supporting the aims and objectives of the Yocto
> Project. These include decreasing the fragmentation of embedded ecosystem
> and
> focusing around a common shared set of tools, formats and best practices.
> We
> want to avoid multiple groups of people repeating the same work and have
> one
> set of great tools rather than multiple tools with drawbacks.: Yes
>   - Committed to promoting the OpenEmbedded architecture, layer model,
> andBSP
> format.: Yes
>   - Are all your publicly accessible layers listed in the OpenEmbedded
> Layers
> index (http://layers.openembedded.org)?: Yes
>   - Committed to sending to the open source community any patches to
> OpenEmbedded-Core, BitBake and other Yocto Project layers.: Yes
>   - Aiming for compatibility and interoperability among different metadata
> layers.: Yes
>   - Are a non-profit, small business (up to 80 employees), or existing
> Yocto
> Project member organization, or if the project's parent organization is an
> open-source project.: No (explain below)
> Explanation:
> Aldec is 30+ year, ~200 employees, private company who provides hardware
> (FPGA/ASIC) simulation/verification platform supporting the latest LRM or
> VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog/SystemC.  We just released our newest product -
> TySOM EDK which consists of an RTL Simulation/Verification Platform and
> Zynq-based development board.
>
> We are using the Yocto Project to build GNU Linux OS for TySOM boards based
> on Xilinx Zynq FPGA with ARM Cortex A-9. We have prepared Aldec meta layer
> configuration based on Yocto project, and it simplified building Linux OS
> for
> the TySOM board. Moreover, our documentation explains all necessary steps
> to
> build Linux OS for TySOM board to simplify the process to our customers..
>
> --
> Jeff Osier-Mixon - Open Source Community Engineer, Intel Corporation
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