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06:49 <harshcasper> Hello Everyone,

06:49 <harshcasper> I am Harsh and I'm a Junior Year Student majoring in Computer Science and Engineering from Chennai, India. I'm looking forward to take part in Google Summer of Code 2021 with Symbiflow, and I'm interested in the project titled "FPGA Tool Performance Results Visualization". While the basic gist of the project has been captured, I'm at a loss of the

06:49 <harshcasper> desired technology stack that the project proposes which is a blocker, I face in preparation of my rough proposal. I would like to get in touch with the Project Mentor, Sir Alessandro Comodi, so that I can have a discussion with him and work on the deliverables as part of the project proposal. Thanks for having me here and looking forward to a

06:49 <harshcasper> positive response.

06:49 <harshcasper> Note: This is the first time I'm sending a message on an IRC Network, so please be kind to me if I make any mishaps:)

07:20 <sf-slack4> <kgugala> Hi @harshscraper thanks for reaching out. I think you can have chat with @acomodi about the project

08:09 <Aadreesh> Hello everyone. I am completely new to Symbiflow. Can anyone suggest how to get started?

08:10 <Aadreesh> I am well acquainted with verilog and C++

08:12 <sf-slack4> <kgugala> there is a lot of things you can grab, as a starter you can check how the whole flow works by following the docs in examples repo https://github.com/SymbiFlow/symbiflow-examples

08:17 <Aadreesh> Thanks a lot for sharing the valuable information

08:18 <sf-slack4> <acomodi> Hi @harshcasper. the project is mainly concerned with front-end technologies, but at the moment there is no strongly desired technology stack to use, it should be the best which fits to reach the final results

11:35 <harshcasper> Hi @acomodi

11:35 <harshcasper> Thanks for the kind response!

11:35 <harshcasper> I have worked on a similar project, albeit of a different nature during my Software Engineering Internship at QA/QE Startup based in India. I engineered a Full Stack Service that allows the company employees to better respond to specific questions about the work culture and the things they are doing/learning. I believe I can take on this project

11:35 <harshcasper> with a similar undertaking and deliver the results.

11:35 <harshcasper> Since we don't have a hard and fast technology requirement, I would like to propose my own tools of choosing for the purpose:

11:35 <harshcasper> - Frontend Library: ReactJS (We can use the default Create-React-App or use a full-fledged framework like NextJS)

11:35 <harshcasper> - Server-Side Framework: Flask/FastAPI (We can use either to follow a RESTful Architecture where data can be communicated on the Client-Side)

11:35 <harshcasper> - DevOps: Docker, Github Actions

11:35 <harshcasper> As of now, I would like to break the whole ideation process into these parts:

11:35 <harshcasper> - Strategic Analysis: To brainstorm on the specifics that we are looking for in the Web Components.

11:35 <harshcasper> - Information Architecture: Planning on how accessible the information should be to the Users

11:35 <harshcasper> - Wireframing: Using a prototyping tool (Adobe XD/Figma) to come up with simple wireframes and communicate the overall idea and aesthetics of the UI

11:35 <harshcasper> - Technical System Design: Decide the Tech Stack, workflow and integration

11:35 <harshcasper> While this ideation process can be done when the Coding Period would officially start, I would like to complete as much as possible during the proposal process, so that I can get cracking on the project really fast.

11:35 <harshcasper> I would love to gain a perspective on my understanding so far and would like to know what we can go ahead with next. Apart from the same, if possible, can we connect on Mail or personally through IRC (I don't how that works but would figure out). I loose a lot of messages here and need to check the logs if there is something for me. Looking forward

11:35 <harshcasper> for a positive response:)

11:54 <sf-slack4> <acomodi> Ok, so, to make things clearer, the current way of visualizing results of FPGA-tool-perf is a python-based Colab page. It uses a visualization library, which relies on pandas Dataframes, to deal with the data produced by CI (accessible through GCS APIs). The idea is to move from colab to something like gh-pages, so probably React might be a good choice here. Therefore, I'd say that the Server-side part of the project

11:54 <sf-slack4> is minimal, as data is already available on GCS (there might be the need of adjusting its format though).

13:09 <harshcasper> Hi @acomodi

13:09 <harshcasper> Thanks for the clear up! I have actually gone through the Colab Code and run it myself and got a fair understanding of how it works and what exactly can we go ahead with it. Coming to the part about adapting the Data from the GCS APIs, we can use a minimalistic backend that can actually fetch the data and reformat and adjust it according to what we

13:09 <harshcasper> are looking for.

13:09 <harshcasper> Can you please let me know what are the next steps I should work on from a proposal perspective? I feel that the above points I mentioned, about deciding the UI/UX of the Frontend Application and doing a strategic analysis would be good. I would be happy to work on any deliverable prior to submitting my application for the same.

13:09 <harshcasper> Apart from the same, would it be possible to connect through Mails or private IRC to discuss more about the plans and proposals, so that I can get cracking on the same. Thanks!

14:06 <sf-slack4> <acomodi> Given that FPGA-tool-perf itself produces data, I think that (if needed) we can already generate data accordingly to what the frontend requires. Regarding private IRC, my name is acomodi as well

17:42 <omkar45> Where I can find symbiflow gsoc ideas list?

17:43 <sf-slack4> <kgugala> omkar45: you can find a link in SymbiFlow's gsoc page https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5137353372336128/

17:44 <sf-slack4> <kgugala> under the logo you have "VIEW IDEAS LIST"

17:44 <sf-slack4> <kgugala> leading to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1owUOIe1ySb2JB6qIiEGsL8N5L6ggP27jbhCJrPAbIvM/edit

17:44 <tpb> Title: SymbiFlow Project Google Summer of Code 2021 - Student Project Ideas List - Google Docs (at docs.google.com)

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