Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC2018][Filter Design Tool Enhancements][Need Feedback]

[Martin Braun]

Sakshi,

your proposal does also not meet the formal requirements. Please take a
look at the GNU Radio wiki pages on GSoC.

Thanks,
Martin



On 03/23/2018 02:42 AM, Felix Wunsch wrote:
> Hello Sakshi,
> 
> great to hear that you are interested in improving the filter design tool!
> 
> Your proposal, however, still needs some work. Please read the
> guidelines carefully, we have a list of specific information we need
> from you without which we can't consider your proposal.
> 
> About your timeline: Please make that more detailed. A detailed timeline
> can show us very well how clear your vision for the project is and how
> much time you think you need for the different parts. I also have to say
> that tests only appear in the last week of the coding phase. For the
> code to be mergeable and maintainable, tests are an absolutely mandatory
> requirement.
> 
> It would also be nice if you could expand your personal background
> section a bit. What kind of projects did you already work on? Were they
> related to DSP, and which programming language(s) did you use? Do you
> maybe even have a GitHub account with relevant code? As the project idea
> states, you will need a strong DSP background as well as good knowledge
> of at least Qt or Python.
> 
> Best regards,
> Felix
> 
> 
> On 03/23/2018 07:10 AM, Sakshi Agrawal wrote:
>>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> This is Sakshi Agrawal, Graduated in Electronics Engineering. I have
>> been following DSP industries. A few days back I ran into GSoC
>> programme. I have seen some GSoC projects proposed by GNU radio in
>> filter design. Having proper coding knowledge and strong DSP
>> background from my undergraduate coursework I thought of contributing
>> to GNU radio.
>>
>> The Filter and Design tool by GNU radio is already very neatly
>> designed and contributing to that will be an experience. The current
>> to-be-solve issues are to improve the ease of using the tool, add more
>> functionality and more support for filter design.
>>
>> "This project is to improve our uses of these tools and blocks to make
>> it more obvious to the users as well as automate some of the decisions
>> for optimally using them."
>>
>> Here are some thoughts which I think will be an extra feature to
>> consider (may or may not be necessary) :
>>
>> 1. Tip the user when selection is to be made. Also, automate some
>> obvious decisions.
>>
>> 2. Implement a tool that can save the current results into a file and
>> also can import the existing file/plot which further can be used in
>> other work or can be modified as per user requirement.
>>
>> 3. Implement a bidirectional support to graph or plot i.e. plot can be
>> changed by values and also by a hand tool user can tweak the plot
>> which will give desired values.
>>
>> 4.Implement a slider which changes the plot as the user slides on the
>> values
>>
>> 5. Add support to more filter design and new filter specs
>>
>> Specifically, I want to contribute to a module can be integrated to GR
>> and gives a new functionality/concept like adding support for
>> cascading filter.
>>
>> Two  filter design concepts:
>>
>> 1. Add more support for Cascaded filters
>>
>> 2. Better support for creating PFB filters
>>
>>
>> I have been working on my proposal[0]. I would request you to go
>> through it and point out any flaw that I should know or some general
>> suggestions to make it better.
>>
>> Best
>> Sakshi Agrawal
>>
>> [0]https://github.com/sakshi18agrawal1/documents/blob/master/Sakshi_GSoC2018.pdf
>>
>>
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