Hello,
I have completed a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, India and will be joining a masters program in Computer Science in August. For the summer, I am interested in participating GSoC 2014 and GNU Radio is an organization where my background fits nicely.
I went through the ideas page and was particularly interested in doing performance optimization with VOLK. After going through some online documentation about the library and the SDR'12 paper, I realised that following areas need work :
1. Profiling GNU radio code to identify new kernels and implement them for existing Intel SIMD extensions, also porting kernels to other ISA extensions.
2. Better testing of the effects of more complex scheduler logic on larger environments (beyond simple kernels)
3. Exploring extension of Volk to GPU ISAs, to leverage chips such as AMD Fusion (However, this seems to more research than software development)
According to the GSoC proposal, point (1) seems to be the expectation. Given this, I would like some advice on how to go ahead looking for potential ideas (and some feedback on feasibility of the other ideas as well)
My background : C++, Python, Signal Processing, Computer Architecture
Thanks,
Abhishek Bhowmick