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Complexity	Size
High complexity	350 hours
Medium complexity	175 hours
Low complexity	90 hours

FPGA gateware improvements Medium complexity 175 hours

Low-latency I/O RISC-V CPU core in FPGA fabric

BeagleV-Fire features RISC-V 64-bit CPU cores and FPGA fabric. In that FPGA fabric, we’d like to implement a RISC-V 32-bit CPU core with operations optimized for low-latency GPIO. This is similar to the programmable real-time unit (PRU) RISC cores popularized on BeagleBone Black.

Goal: RISC-V-based CPU on BeagleV-Fire FPGA fabric with GPIO

Hardware Skills: Verilog, Verification, FPGA

Software Skills: RISC-V ISA, assembly, Linux

Possible Mentors: Cyril Jean, Jason Kridner

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Linux kernel improvements Medium complexity 350 hours

Update beagle-tester for mainline testing

Utilize the beagle-tester application and Buildroot along with device-tree and udev symlink concepts within the OpenBeagle continuous integration server context to create a regression test suite for the Linux kernel and device-tree overlays on various Beagle computers.

Goal: Execution on Beagle test farm with over 30 mikroBUS boards testing all mikroBUS enabled cape interfaces (PWM, ADC, UART, I2C, SPI, GPIO and interrupt) performing weekly mainline Linux regression verification

Hardware Skills: basic wiring, familiarity with embedded serial interfaces

Software Skills: device-tree, Linux, C, continuous integration with GitLab, Buildroot

Possible Mentors: Deepak Khatri, Anuj Deshpande, Dhruva Gole

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Linux kernel improvements Medium complexity 175 hours

Upstream wpanusb and bcfserial

These are the drivers that are used to enable Linux to use a BeagleConnect Freedom as a SubGHz IEEE802.15.4 radio (gateway). They need to be part of upstream Linux to simplify on-going support. There are several gaps that are known before they are acceptable upstream.

Goal: Add functional gaps, submit upstream patches for these drivers and respond to feedback

Hardware Skills: Familiarity with wireless communication

Software Skills: C, Linux

Possible Mentors: Ayush Singh, Jason Kridner

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Automation and industrial I/O Medium complexity 175 hours

librobotcontrol support for newer boards

Preliminary librobotcontrol support for BeagleBone AI, BeagleBone AI-64 and BeagleV-Fire has been drafted, but it needs to be cleaned up. We can also work on support for Raspberry Pi if UCSD releases their Hat for it.

Goal: Update librobotcontrol for Robotics Cape on BeagleBone AI, BeagleBone AI-64 and BeagleV-Fire

Hardware Skills: Basic wiring, some DC motor familiarity

Software Skills: C, Linux

Possible Mentors: Deepak Khatri, Jason Kridner

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