March 2014 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
SVFIG on Google+ Hangout-
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url - tinyurl
Videos - morning (1:11:09) -
afternoon (3:07:00) |
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10:00 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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10:30 |
New Toolchain for GA144 - James Bowman
James
spoke about an alternate set of software development tools for the GA144 that
is not based on Color Forth.
- Github
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11:30 |
Lunch
We ate at the
Treehouse. |
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13:00 |
What's New? - Kevin Appert
Be on the lookout
for interesting products of other material to bring to every meeting or send to
svfig@zork.net.
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When
trends collide: Ten of the hottest crowd-funded wearables
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WinPcap - an application
programming interface (API) that allows users to capture network traffic in a
Windows environment
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13:30 |
Evolution of the LabVIEW compiler - Dirk De Mol,
National Instruments
LabVIEW has evolved from an interpreted language to
a highly optimized compiled language. We'll follow the steps from a "compile
into machine language" to a Dataflow Intermediate Representation +
LLVM (formerly Low Level
Virtual Machine) compiler back-end. |
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14:30 |
Break |
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14:44 |
Adapteva and Epiphany - Sam Putman - Postponed
until the April Meeting
Epiphany is a chip with 16 RISC cores now, and 64
cores coming soon! In a bygone era, it was all about the Gflops - this one runs
at 100 Gflops. These days, it's all about the power (and cooling) – this
one consumes 5 watts! Is cost important – this one costs $200? The project
was funded, at least in part, by Kickstarter.
- Adapteva
- Epiphany
multi-core coprocessors
- Parallella:
A Love Story – MIT course slides from January 7, 2013
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15:30 |
Haiku Errata - Brad Nelson
Brad spoke about the
accumulated comments from Russian Haiku users including the math changes
they've suggested. |
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15:45 |
Sourceless Forth WP - Brad Nelson
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16:00 |
Clean Up and Adjourn |
Other items:
- Forth
- Forth for MSP430
- Forth Tutorials
- Forth CPUs
- Chips
- Computers
- Software
- Hilgraeve
HyperTerminal
- iPaint: MS Paint-like
online painting program implemented with HTML5
- FreeDos
- DR DOS -
Wikipedia entry
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- Utilities
- Hardware
- Forth Programming Books
- Other Books
- Manuals
- Forth Articles
- Articles
- Forth Enumerant
article
- This
is what the death of Moore’s law looks like
- Long Live
Vacuum Tube Amps
- What
Pi sounds like
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Computer
Scientist / Embedded Systems Programmer - Science System and Applications,
Inc. - Hampton, VA
- Lectures
- People
- Green
Arrays
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- Tutorials
- Other
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