Morning Session
- HMPP
- 1 million processors on a chip arranged as 1000 by 1000
single instruction, multiple datapath
300 Mhz=300,000 GIPS
Macrocontroller
Afternoon Session
- Ear Training
- Article by Glen Haydon in Forth Dimensions Volume XII, #5 Jan/Feb 1991
- Published with permission - PDF -
source code
- Train your ear over the Internet
- Earbuilder by GCM Enterprises - Get that perfect pitch ear you have always
wanted
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music enthusiast on a budget. Earbuilder will train you towards that perfect
pitch ear you have always wanted. Earbuilder will train your ear with
Intervals, Scales, and Chord drills that can be customized to your desire. Use
the auto trainer for hands free practice. Register Earbuilder and receive all
future upgrades FREE.
Company: http://www.gcment.com/
Download : http://www.gcment.com/earbuilder.aspx
Program: http://gcment.fileburst.com/earbuilder_setup.exe
- ARM info
ARM Developers
Conference 10/4-6 at Santa Clara Convention Center
NU Horizons Corp. has a free seminar on 11/01/2005 in SJ and an
inexpensive OKI AME-51 ARM evaluation board - $199.
http://www.nuhorizons.com/ame51/
- Alan Furman's ARM contributions
The latest Atmel monstrosity-on-a-chip:
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/corporate/view_detail.asp?FileName=ARMSAM7X_9_1.html
Atmel's latest multiple-kitchen-sink ARM chips: AT91SAM7X128 and
AT91SAM7X256 (respectively 128k and 256k of onboard flash).
They have (all on-chip): Ethernet, USB, CAN, IIC, 3 UARTs, 8 interrupt
priority levels
Multiple UARTs are extremely important for doing central system control
with serial peripherals like motion controllers and smart touchscreens while
keeping a tethered link to an "operator" task. MPE Ltd. and Forth
Inc. both have tethered development systems for the ARM. With multiple priority
levels, interrupt-driven programming is still a hassle, but less than without
them.
The "7" after SAM means that these chips have the ARM7 core
(not ARM9 -- pay no attention to the "9" after AT). Atmel claims that
by avoiding the need for code shadowing, they have "uniquely"
realized the ARM7's potential for true deterministic execution times.
The parts are astoundingly cheap: "The AT91SAM7X128 is available
now in a 100- lead LQFP green package for $7.20 in quantities of 10,000. The
AT91SAM7X256 comes in a 100-lead LQFP green package for $8.65."
This looks like a universal solution for realtime complex machine
control and instrumentation.
The low-cost ARM board I recalled from comp.arch.embedded uses the Atmel
AT91SAM7S64, a less-stuffed sibling of the above chip, and sells for the
attractive price of $60.
SAM7-P64 Developemnt board for AT91SAM7S64 ARM7TDMI-S Microcontroller
http://www.olimex.com/dev/sam7-p64.html
Alan Furman
alanf2 -at- earthlink.net
Other
- Turbo Forth introduced by Henry Vinerts
- Program: http://www.bsa.lu/pub/bsa/dl/tforth/TF83.exe
- Source code:
http://www.bsa.lu/pub/bsa/dl/tforth/sources_tforth.zip
- Tally up number of bits in a number - John Rible
: *+ ( 9bit (top 9 bits) 9 bit (low 9 bits) - 18 bit )
dup / and if over + then 2/ ;
: tally_bits
8 for *+ push 2/ pop next ;
- Tidbits from comp.arch.embedded
- PIC motor controller with serial input
- LCD with touch screen - UART input
- MPE has embedded TCP/IP stack
- Upcoming Talks and Presentations
- IEEE SCV Magnetics Society
- A Process View of Recording Head Technology
- Rick Dill, Hitachi Global Storage Technology
- Tuesday, 10/18/2005
- KOMAG, 1710 Automation Parkway, San Jose
- http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/mag/
- IEEE SCV Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
- Neural basis of reach preparation and communication prosthetics
- Krishna Shenoy, Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering &
Neurosciences Program
- Wednesday, 10/19/2005
- Clark Center Auditorium, Stanford University
- http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/embs/pages/upcoming.html
- Misc
- EE Times teardown article on an "entry level" digital camera
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170701597
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