From: Laszlo Szilagyi <laszlo.szilagyi.home_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:16:54 +0200

Dear Rockbox!

I'm an electrical engineer student in my 4th year from Hungary (BUTE),
studying mainly about embedded system design, digital signal processing, and
of course the programming tools in connection with these fields. I've heard
about the "Google Summer Of Code", and the projects Rockbox offers caught my
attention. As my main specialization is digital signal processing, I'm
mostly interested in tasks covering this field. I like the

Realaudio Support
DSP Plugins
Better Video Support

tasks at first sight, but before I send my application I would like to know
if my qualification is sufficient for the various tasks. Of course I'm open
to some embedded work as well, but what I really like is the DSP... :)

My studies/experiences:

- programming in C/C++ language (in C++ I'm familiar with STL, and design
patterns, used doxigen)

- DSP knowledge: mathematical fundamentals, filter design, real time signal
processing on hardware (in this semester my "Labor work" is about fixed
point multi rate filters (for radars), last semester with one of my college
we created a "Larsen effect" cancelling system on an Analog Devices Blackfin
eval board, and it actually worked... :) )

- Matlab programming knowledge (experience with (multi rate) filter design,
simulations, also with fixed point simulations)

- Linux user and programing experience (till the end of this semester I'll
accomplish a course called "Linux programming", which will give me more
insight of programming the system)

- FPGA programming (experience: realization of a Discrete Cosine
Transformator, simple "VGA card" and pong game :) )

- Atmel AVR (assembly, C) and ARM7 (eCos, C) programming experience

I'm open to study new fields, interested in multimedia.

With this background what can you recommend me, before I create my
application?
Thanks your help!

Sincerely,

Laszlo Szilagyi
Received on 2008-03-30