Forth Day Agenda
Early Starting Time - 9:00am
09:00 --- Coffee and Networking
09:20 --- Chairman's Welcome - George
Perry
09:30 --- SwiftX and SwiftForth Application
Development - Leon Wagner and Ron Oliver
Ron Oliver and Leon Wagner of Forth, Inc.
will be talking about the latest releases of SwiftForth and SwiftX. They've put
together a CD-ROM (which they'll hand out to anyone who wants it) with the
SwiftForth evaluation version as well as SwiftX evaluation versions for the
68HC11, 68HC12, 68HCS08, 68K, 69R000, 8051, ARM, AVR, ColdFire, i386, and
MSP430. They'll show the interactive SwiftX environment, using an SD card file
I/O subsystem on a little ARM evaluation board as part of their
demonstration.
10:00 --- Scalable Forth Processors - CH
Ting
"MuP21's concise intruction set, as designed by Chuck Moore, is very
portable to microprocessors of different data bus widths. I have inplemented
this instruction set on 8, 16, 24, 32, and 64 bit microprocessors, and ran them
under identical eForth operating systems. It is interesting to note that the
data bus width is now only a design parameter, and not a primary restricting
factor in CPU designs."
11:00 --- MyForth, a Minimalist 8-Bit Forth for 8051
Chips - Charley Shattuck and Bob Nash
Written by Charley Shattuck, MyForth is an experimental 8-bit minimalist Forth
for 8051 processors using ideas from colorForth. Charley will describe the
implementation of MyForth while Bob will offer his perspectives as a new user
and developer.
MyForth presentation proposal in pdf - 15Kb
12:00 --- Lunch - CH Ting
Join us for lunch catered by CH Ting.
13:00 --- Introductions, announcements, rumors, and
gossip
13:10 --- Treasurer's Report - John
Rible
13:20 --- Fireside Chat - Chuck Moore
By long tradition, the inventor of the Forth programming language will share
his thoughts on the events of the past year and the future of Forth.
14:20 --- intellaSys and the SEAforth 24A -
Jeff Fox, Randy Leberknight, Michael Montvelishsky, and Doug Dillon
Imagine the things you can do with 24 Forth cores on a single chip! The folks
from intellaSys will describe the
technology, the tools, and the applications.
- Jeff will review the use of columns in Forth source code
and discuss Parallel Forth, colorForth, okad2, machineforth, and ANS Forth.
Randy will show developments in the T18 programming tools. A new release of
these tools will be available on the intellaSys website by Forth Day.
Michael will give a demonstration of a 'crawler' and/or talk about templates
for parallel filters.
Doug will talk about the new colorForth!
16:00 --- Adjourn
17:00 --- Dinner -
Golden Wok in
Mountain View
Coming to SVFIG on December 16th (third Saturday):
- Join us for a break from hectic holiday activities.
- Help us plan next year's Forth Day.
- More talks, more networking, and maybe a surprise or two.
- SD Flash Card Interface - Dave Jaffe
- Dave will discuss Forth code software that interfaces an embedded
microcontroller to a SD Flash card for data logging applications.
If you have anything you'd like to talk about in December,
please contact
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