Notes from December 2002 Meeting

Ting:

P8 update:
P8 chip mounted on PC boards and working
executes P21 instructions
1st design used Xilinx Vertx 1000E RAM-based FPGA $1000
this design uses Actel fuse-link FPGA + flash $20

P32 update:
8 Mb flash for Chinese character set
32 Mb SDRAM

eForth Academy:
Library - manuals
Lab - topics for research
Classroom - lessons, Forth course
Cafe -
Basic version 1 -
Basic version 2 -
Programs -
eForth Sutra - in Chinese only
Certification - 3 levels: college, Masters, PhD

Afternoon session:

Swift Forth - mentioned by Jodell

Explanation of Windows programming example - Alan Furman

Meme - VR in Forth - Marc de Groot

Quartus Forth for Treo cellphone

PicoSearch - a free search engine for searching your own website

Window Manager - Brian Livingston in InfoWorld

Design Ideas in EDN

Ideas for Design in Electronic Design

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