April 2016 Meeting NotesCompiled by Dave JaffeContributions from Kevin Appert and others
SVFIG on Google+ Hangout: long url - tinyurl Videos: morning (1:35:45) - afternoon1 (3:30) - afternoon2 (2:58:45) |
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Coming in May – DIY eP8080 FPGA Processor Workshop Attendees who would like to participant in this workshop should purchase a LatticeXP2 Brevia2 Development Kit from Lattice Semiconductors (about $50) and contact CH Ting to obtain an eP8080 software package that synthesizes an Intel 8080 CPU. The May meeting will include emulation experiments and discussions of old and new CPU architectures. |
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10:00 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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10:20 |
Warm-Up for the FPGA Workshop in May --- CH Ting - CH Ting This presentation will include:
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11:30 |
Lunch |
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13:00 |
Introduction, Rumors, Gossip, and New Things |
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13:30 |
eForth in Kestrel-3 ROM at Long Last? - Samuel A.
Falvo II |
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14:20 |
Break |
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14:35 |
Ruminations on Forth Text Processing - Brad
Nelson “The „secret sauce. of the Perl programming language (with several antecedents) was built-in support for a small collection of types: strings, numbers, lists, and associative arrays that form a potent mini-domain for reasoning about text processing. This idea spread from there to form a core part of the value proposition of languages include Python, Lua, Ruby, Javascript, Bash, PHP, Tcl, and many other scripting languages. The JSON data format, and its prevalence, highlights how pervasive this idiom is in contemporary computing.” “While this 'JSON' type domain is imminently implementable in Forth (for example the Forth Foundation Library) it is not a common Forth idiom. Why? Are there Forth-y alternatives? What should text processing look like in Forth? I'll explorer, ponder alternatives, and engage the collective wisdom of my audience in search of answers.” |
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15:15 |
WebAssembly in a Nutshell – A Forther's Point of
View - Aliaksei Chapyzhenka |
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15:40 |
In Memory of Sandy
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16:00 |
Clean Up and Adjourn |
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