Interested in FPGAs or hardware and in Uni? Get paid to hack on FOSS!

[mithro]

Are you a Uni student who is interested hardware, FPGAs or embedded programming? You could get paid to hack on them by applying to the TimVideos.us organisation for Google Summer of Code! -- The deadline for applications is April 3 16:00 UTC, so you should start now!

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As Dave recently retweeted, the TimVideos.us project is happy to announce that it is participating in Google Summer of Code 2017 (GSoC2017) and is looking for students to hack on the hardware used to record many open source conferences - including Linux.conf.au, many PyCons around the world and DebConf.

Due to the focus on hardware, we are looking for students who are interested in things like FPGAs, VHDL/Verilog and other HDLs, embedded C programming & operating systems, and electronic circuit/PCB design!

This year we have joint project ideas with other hardware based groups who are also participating in GSoC2017 including;

• The apertus project - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/4801281785856000/
  
• lowRISC - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5710050115977216/
  
• The FOSSi foundation - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5867002221559808/
  

Some of the interesting projects that TimVideos.us is looking for students to contribute too are;

• Porting a real operating system such as Linux or NuttX to our System On Chip to allow easier development of new features (https://github.com/timvideos/getting-started/issues/33).
  
• Porting MicroPython to our FPGA SoC to allow both hardware and firmware be developed in Python together!
  
• Improving simulation of our SoC using QEmu
  
• (In collaboration with lowRISC) Improving the debug interface for the soft-CPU cores in our SoC
  
• (In collaboration with apertus) Creation of an open source 4K HDMI output HDL Gearwork Logic / IP Core
  
• Making use of the Ethernet interface for connecting multiple devices together and alternative capture interfaces.
  
• and many, many more.
  

Looking forward to seeing what this year's batch of GSoC students create!