--- SVFIG Meeting, Fourth Saturday, August 28, 2010 --- _______________________________________________ *** MEETING PLACE SAME AS LAST MONTH, CHANGED SINCE FEBRUARY *** The meeting will be held on the FIRST OR second floor of Building 550 (aka Peterson Building. Directions and map links are below. *** DO NOT ASK STANFORD STUDENTS TO LET YOU IN AND DO NOT ENTER THE BUILDING BEHIND STUDENTS *** Enter the building from the Panama Mall side. The door is labeled "Building 550 - Mechanical Engineering Design Group". If there isn't someone from SVFIG at the door to let you in, call the cell phone number on the sign. The Official SVFIG Announcement Editor's Parking Lot Recommendation is the lot near the intersection of Santa Teresa St and Lomita Dr. ***WIFI AVAILABLE*** To use Wifi, you will need a guest account. If you didn't have a guest account last month and you want to use Wifi, then email Dave Jaffe at: _______________________________________________ AGENDA For late-breaking updates, check the web site: <<>> At each lull in the action, between talks or before breaks we will be inviting folks to give short 5-10 minute 'quickies'. If you'd like to tell us about something, let Kevin know at the meeting and we'll reserve the time for you or take your chances that nobody else will grab the slot. 09:50 --- Coffee and a Chat 10:00 --- VHDL Implementation of eP32 --- C.H. Ting "I have implemented eP32 on several FPGA platforms, including Xilinx, Altera, and Actel. I will dig up the Altera Stratix II development board and demonstrate it. The eP32 implementation is now in the public domain and I can give a detailed presentation. I would like to re-work it, taking out all the bells and whistles, and return it to the prestine state where Forth really shines. However, I may not get everything done by the August meeting." 11:35 --- Quickie 11:45 --- LUNCH We will walk to The Treehouse by Tresidder Union. Here is a review: <<< http://collegerestaurant.net/default.aspx>>> Here is the menu: <> 13:00 --- INTRODUCTIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, DISCUSSION --- All Assembled This month we'll go around the room and each introduce ourselves. If you've read something interesting, tell us about it! 13:15 --- Field Trip Planning We've been talking on the email list about a trip up to the Nike Site on the first Saturday in September. We'll discuss logistics for that trip and consider other expeditions, perhaps the FIRST Robotics CalGames in October. http://www.wrrf.org/ 13:30 --- $29 FPGA Board Runs Forth, Part 1 --- John Rible John talks about his latest (non-GreenArrays) project: porting two forth cpus and eforth to the Lattice XP2 Brevia demo board. 14:05 --- Quickie 14:10 --- Break 14:20 --- Ascetic Programming --- Samuel A. Falvo II "Bear with me as I attempt to muddle through explaining why you shouldn't use object oriented programming in Forth, and how to make up for the loss using relational techniques." This will be a preview of Sam's Forth Day talk with a little more time for side trips and discussion. 15:05 --- Quickie If nobody steps forward, we may run this 'blast from the past' (just the Forth part): <<>> 15:10 --- Archeology - SCADA in Forth - Express in polyFORTH --- Dennis Ruffer EXPRESS is FORTH, Inc's industrial control software. Dennis will provide a tour of the EXPRESS Mix Master demo. You can read about a few of the places EXPRESS worked here: http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/sf0/sf0.html 15:55 --- Clean up before you go! 16:00 --- Ok, now you can go. _______________________________________________ Please note that the times listed above are precise but not necessarily ccurate. We might go a little long or short on any agenda item or shuffle things on the fly with abandon. If you're desperate to see something at a particular time, please let us know! Remember that there are bugs in any non-trivial SVFIG meeting announcement. _______________________________________________ The schedule above may be reformatted or line-justified but please transmit verbatim or not at all. Any font you like is fine with me. No Newsgroup posts or other media distribution this month please! _______________________________________________ There is NO Public Wireless Internet access at Stanford. Email Dave Jaffe to request a one day guest account if you didn't have one last month. _______________________________________________ Coming to SVFIG: * FORTH DAY in November 2010! * Bring speaker suggestions TO EVERY MEETING! * Mitch Bradley's Forth in C (somebody needs to volunteer) * Blast from the past - a discussion of John James' CRC from his Xmodem implementation as enunciated in "Forth Dimensions". * Engineering TV http://engineeringtv.com/ Fifty engineering topic channels. Four new episodes per week. _______________________________________________ Check the SVFIG web site at http://www.forth.org/svfig/ for last minute changes to this schedule. The most up-to-date meeting information is at http://www.forth.org/svfig/next.html Many thanks to our wonderful Webmaster, Dave Jaffe. Preliminary agenda along with schedule updates and discussion may frequently be found on the SVFIG email list. To subscribe send email to geoperry_at_gmail.com Please let us know if this isn't your preferred email address for the SVFIG-Announce mailing list. Thanks for your patience. Please suggest a speaker or present at a SVFIG meeting. Please do not attempt to reply to svfig-announce@... send instead to forther_at_comcast.net _______________________________________________ NAVIGATIONAL ADVICE Enter the building from the Panama Mall side. (In the event that the building door is locked, there will either be someone on duty to let you in or a cellphone number to call.) - ***DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TRY TO PIGGYBACK IN THE DOOR BEHIND STUDENTS OR ASK STUDENTS TO LET YOU IN*** - Google Maps does NOT work very well on the Stanford campus, use this map: http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/map/ - Or the Searchable Stanford Campus Map: http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/map/ - There is open parking on weekends. Park in any A or C or metered space, no coins needed even if there's a meter there. The Official SVFIG Announcement Editor's Parking Lot recommendation is the lot near the intersection of Santa Teresa St and Lomita Dr _______________________________________________