January 2012 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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09:45 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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10:00 |
Brevia 2 Kit, a Little Help? - CH Ting
"I'm I
still have trouble loading the USB drivers for LatticeSemi's Brevia2 Kit. I
will bring it in and see if anybody can help."
- Lattice
ECP3Versa Development Kit
- LatticeXP2
Brevia2 Development Kit - $49
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11:45 |
Lunch
We ate at the Treehouse. |
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13:00 |
Introductions, announcements, rumours, and gossip -
All assembled
We went around the room and introduced
ourselves. |
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13:30 |
Treasurer's Report - John Rible |
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13:45 |
Stack processor DIY toolkit - Aliaksei Chapyzhenka
This presentation was an introduction of the toolkit for stack
processor developers. The idea is to speed-up the development process from the
instruction set idea through running code in FPGA. The aim is to retarget all
documentation, hardware and software tools using single architecture
description source.
- Stackdrom
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14:45 |
Break |
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15:15 |
Literate Programming - Dennis A. Ruffer
This
was a preview of his February presentation. |
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17:00 |
Adjourn |
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Other items:
Taiwan Forth Conference "I am going to Taiwan to attend
the Taiwan Forth Conference from 2/14-18/2012. I will do two workshops, one on
ep32q for the Brevia Kit, and the other on 328eForth for Arduino Uno. In
addition, I will do three short talks on 'Fun with eForth': Chart of the World,
Mandelbrot Fractals, and Graphic Haikus. I have talked about these in our
previous SVFIG meetings, so people might be bored if I repeated them." About 50
attendees are expected.
CH Ting
- Forth
- FIG Who's
Who
-
Forth for the IBM 1130
- My
history with Forth & stack machines
- Introduction to
Thoughtful Programming and the Forth Philosophy
- Computers
- Software
- GIMP - GNU Image
Manipulation Program
- Speedtest.net - Test your
network connection
- LLVM Compiler
Infrastructure
- LyX - The Document
Processor
- Acronis True
Image
- smartmontools -
two utility programs to control and monitor SMART storage systems
- GSmartControl
- hard disk drive health inspection tool for Win/Mac/Linux
- Hardware
- DE0-Nano
Development and Education Board - $80
- FS Forth
boards (FS Forth is the name of the company - they do not use Forth)
- Benchtop
Oscilloscopes below 100 MHz
- Forth Programming Books
- "Real Time Forth" by Tim Hendtlass -
pdf -
postscript
- Forth
Books
- Articles
- Analyzing
Carrier IQ Profiles
- IBNIZ
- a hardcore audiovisual virtual machine and an esoteric programming
language
- Forth
Works with Embedded Systems
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Staff
Software / Firmware Engineer - Exar - Fremont, CA
- Intern
- SIE Software Test Development Engineer - Seagate - Longmont, CO
- Lectures
- People
- GreenArrays
- Surplus Houses
- Marlin P. Jones &
Associates, Inc.
- All Electronics
Corporation
- Surplus
Electronics and Equipment for Amateur Scientists
- Surplus
Computers
- Meetings
- Videos
- Books
- Art
of Computer Programming - Don Knuth
- Other
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- Kestrel & Preen - Sam Falvo
- The
Program!
- "Human readable"
form of the Kestrel-2 source code for Preen 1A
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- Handheld Oscilloscopes
- THS3000
Series-
Data
Sheet
- THS3014
from Mouser
- DSO203
Nano V2 Quad Pocket Digital 2 Mb USB Storage Oscilloscope - $200
- Saelig PC-based
Oscilloscopes
- 5 Mhz
Mixed Signal Scope Adapter for Apple iOS - $298
- Xprotolab 200kHz 2-channel
DIP-Size Mixed Signal Scope - $49
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