Gnu EDA project and Google Summer of Code

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The Gnu EDA project (gEDA) [0] has produced and continues working on a full GPL'd suite of Electronic Design Automation tools. These tools are used for electrical circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production.

The gEDA project has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the 2008 Google summer of code (GSoC). Several of the software packages making up gEDA have projects [1] and mentors [2] waiting for students to dive into them. One of those projects, gwave [3] has a UNC-CS and Chapel Hill connection - yours truly, Steve Tell (UNC MS '91, CS staff 93-99, GSoc mentor 2008).

Gwave is an analog waveform viewer, commonly used for interactively exploring the output of a circuit simulator such as spice or gnucap. It is essentialy the simplest possible data-visualization
tool, and is is coded in C and scheme, using the Gtk+ toolkit. Enhancements in many different directions are possible for programmers of various levels, from infrastructure work to whole new waveform visualization techniques.

In summary, I'd encourage all students looking for programming work for the summer of 2008 to look at the Google summer of code in general, and at gEDA and gwave if those spark your interest.

Anyone with questions about gwave or gEDA is welcome to contact me; I can pass general GSoC questions along the proper person.

Steve Tell
tell@cs.unc.edu
tell@telltronics.org



links:

[0] http://www.geda.seul.org/
[1] http://geda.seul.org/wiki/gsoc2008_projects
[2] http://geda.seul.org/wiki/gsoc2008
[3] http://gwave.sourceforge.net/
[4] http://code.google.com/soc/2008/