I'm 2nd year, 20 year old student of computer science at Technical 
University of Czestochowa.

My major interests range from low level programming (device driver and OS 
kernel: both C and assembler on x86/MIPS architectures)
to digital design (Verilog synthesis in Verilog).

I attend monolithic model of education (last year of old Polish education 
system) which means I'll gather both B.Sc and M.Sc after 3 years from now 
on. I would like to try to incorporate AVR32 in my studies.

Proposal of my project is very short: port FreeBSD to AVR32. This is a lot 
of work, which is why I decided to acquire to ATMEL's university program.

I don't apply as a researcher/Ph.D because I know such a project requires at 
least 2-3 hours of work in a daily basis for... several months. Thus, I'd 
like to have ATMEL's hardware kept at home, where I can work on the 
programming tasks.  Provided phone number are the same--I've given phone 
number of my departament secretary, but this request is sent by me to ATMEL 
privately, without secretary's knowledge.

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I do have an expirience in this topic.

I'm FreeBSD system developer since 2 years. I helped to bring MIPS support 
to the FreeBSD source tree in the early stages of development.  I  had Ampro 
Encore M2 board donated by MIPS Technologies back then.

This project is hard, but real to complete.  I'm furtunate enough to have 
a possibility to work in close relationship with people who did previous 
FreeBSD porting work on other architectures, as well as customizing U-boot 
and other parts of that level of software layer.

What ATMEL could do for me is either board or at least cable donation. 
I can't afford both myself.

Ideal case:

AVR JTAGICE mkII cable and ATSTK1000 board donation

Such a donation would let me start thinking about
FreeBSD/AVR32 development very seriously.

Good case

AVR JTAGICE mkII donation 

In good case, I'd try to acquire ATNGW100 Network Gateway Kit for 
development, as it's the only platform I could eventually afford.

"Ideal case" will be very appreciated.

I looked for "Distributors" within Poland with
this page:

http://www.atmel.com/contacts/

Company which is closest to me:

JM ELEKTRONIK
Ul. Karolinki 58 PL-44100 Gliwice
Poland
Phone: Tel: (48) 32-339-6900 Fax: (48) 32-339-6909 
Email: spieszczek@jm.pl URL: http://www.jm.pl

Kind regards,

Thank you,

Wojciech A. Koszek
wkoszek@FreeBSD.org