Open Source ‘CATS’ [Cross Application Tracing System]

Philips Brugge is met zijn 400 collega’s het internationaal innovatiecentrum dat de meest innovatieve TV’s ontwikkelt en consumenten zo een niet te evenaren cinematic viewing experience bezorgt. Perfect Pixel HD, Ambilight, Aurea en de recent gelanceerde Cinema 21:9 Platinum 3D-TV zijn allemaal ontstaan in deze vernieuwende en gedreven omgeving. Net zoals voorgaande jaren werd ook in 2011 ons werk bekroond met de prestigieuze EISA-award voor meest groene tv en de beste 3D-televisie.
Philips Bruges is the global innovation center where 400 colleagues work together to develop the most innovative TV’s thus creating an unforgettable cinematic viewing experience for our consumers. Perfect Pixel HD, Ambilight, Aurea and the recently launched Cinema 21:9 Platinum 3D-TV have all been developed in this innovative and inspiring environment. In 2011, as in previous years, we won the prestigious EISA-award for the most eco-friendly product and the best 3D-television.

Description:
The Software Development group of Philips Bruges is leading system integration in Philips Consumer Lifestyle; we are driving innovation by integration into a top performing system with a strong focus on managing state-of-the-art software assets and delivering value creation through meaningful differentiation. This group has over a 120 people working from conceptualization (requirements and architecture) to realization (development and testing).
‘CATS’ (Cross Application Trace System) is an internally developed system to aid system diagnosis and debugging in an embedded system with multiple applications. It essentially logs application prints from different Linux applications/processes in a single queue based on configurable rules and structures and provides different output methods (e.g. to the UART, to files etc.).
There is a strong potentiality to use CATS in a much wider universal systems other than only TV, and thus there is an intention to share this system with a wider user community by adapting this framework and making it part of the Open Source environment.
Activities:
• Separate CATS from Philips code in standalone components
• Re-structure it as an Open Source deliverable and make it available to the Open Source community
• Development of the needed enhancements to the CATS based on a list of known improvements
• This also includes creating/updating the necessary documentation (usage/design/etc.).

Requirements:
• Civil/Industrial Engineer OR Master in Informatics OR with a specialisation in Computer Sciences
• Knowledge of Linux, C.
• Result driven and communicative nature

Contact:
Voor meer informatie over het onderwerp, contacteer Tabish Siddique (Senior Manager Software Product):
 Tel: 050/455.452
 Of per mail: tabish.siddique@philips.com

Wil je solliciteren voor deze opdracht, stuur dan een kort CV met motivatie naar Evelien Batsleer, HR assistant: evelien.batsleer@philips.com (050/455.299) én naar de contactpersoon die hierboven vermeld staat. Wij nodigen je dan uit voor een kennismakingsgesprek met de stagebegeleider en HR.