SVFIG
Next Meeting:
Saturday, March 26th
at
Cogswell College
1175 Bordeaux Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA
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Agenda to: George Perry
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09:45
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Starbucks Coffee, Tea, Bagels, and
Pastries
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10:00
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Low Cost Digital Oscilloscope - CH
Ting
"I will give a progress report on the Forth DSO project."
"The tingARM boards came back. However, John Cassady went out of the
country, and he has all the ADuC7020 chips. I cannot do anything with the bare
boards. I am laying out the first DSO board now, and hope to show it at the
meeting."
"I talked about PA7540 PLD chip from Anachip last time. However, it
burns too much current and so it is not suitable for a portable application. I
found that Atmel ATF750CL is pin compatible with similar logic, but comsumes
much less power. I will talk about this chip and show some simulation
results."
I am working with PSPICE, and am trying to simulate the entire DSO
circuitry: both analog and digital parts. There is a free student version of
PSPICE Version 9.1 from OrCAD which was bought by Cadence.
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12:00
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Lunch and Dilbert Film Festival
Dilbert DVDs will be shown during lunch to test out the DVD player. Lunch
options include: Togos, Waiters on Wheels, or bring your own
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13:00
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Introductions, Announcements, Rumors,
Gossip, and Random Discussions
Potential topics include: elections, and speaker and topic suggestions.
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13:30
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Causality, the Illiac, and Me - Gary Feierbach
Gary will regale us with tales of his career and the projects (both with and
without Forth) that have marked milestones in his life's journey from his early
work with the Illiac
IV including some Show-and-Tell and amusing stories - through his days at
Inner Access (where everything went
wrong at once), then Intergraph, Sun, Racer Graphics and finally Apple - to his
current endeavors including a foray into the arts. (A video of a clock he
constructed will be shown.) We'll want to hear Gary's take on where Forth went
right and wrong and what could be done better.
Other links of interest:
True
Coverage:A Goal of Verification
Fourth International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design
March 24 - 26, 2003
San Jose, CA
- Kalifer Deil
Collected Works
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15:00
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Panel Discussion - The Embedded Systems
Conference - All in attendance
- Where there any booths that were really mobbed?
- Anything to make you say WOW?
- Got Zigbee?
- An in-depth review of Scott Adams' keynote.
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16:00
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Possible Beers and Dinner
Venues include Tied
House in Mountain View.
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Future Meeting
Ideas:
- Math Secrets of Mosaic Industries'
QED-Forth
- Robot Parts and Pieces - vendor(s) from the RoboNexus show
- misc8051 Forth - Charley Shattuck
- Smart Dust
- A USB Device Enumerator in SwiftForth
- PID Control
- SVFIG meeting or meeting fragments as Webcast
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SVFIG welcomes everyone's
participation at its monthly meetings. There are many ways to contribute:
- bring in a hardware or software item to discuss,
- present a topic in an area of expertise,
- discuss a book, paper, website, new product, new application, or an article
in Forthwrite, or
- talk about a current project.
If you would like to present at an SVFIG meeting, contact
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