SVFIG
Forth Day 2005
Saturday, November 19th
Third Saturday
at
Cogswell College
1175 Bordeaux Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA

Wireless Internet access is anticipated (though not guaranteed) at Cogswell,
so bring your laptop computer and wireless card!

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09:00

Note early start time! Networking and Coffee

09:25

Chairman's Welcome - George Perry

09:30

New Products for Forth Embedded Systems - Dave Jaffe
Dave will survey some newly introduced microcontrollers and I/O peripherals that can provide useful and unique capabilities to Forth embedded systems.

10:00

Forth Stamps - CH Ting
Ting finally has a stamp computer now. It is based on Analog Devices's ADuC7020. A single chip computer having a 1 MSPS, ADC, and 4 DAC, and many other peripherals.

10:45

Break

11:00

SwiftForth - Bob Nash
http://www.forth.com/

11:30

Carbon MacForth - George Perry
http://www.macforth.com/

12:00

Lunch - catered by CH Ting

13:00

Introductions, announcements, rumors, and gossip

13:10

Treasurer's Report - John Rible

13:20

Forth Chip Infrastructure - Jeff Fox
A ROM BIOS for parallel Forth, service providers, a ram server and the concept of Forthlets. Stories of developing development environments and the use of Forth in many flavors.

14:20

Sudoku - John Rible
Recoding Robert Spykerman's Sudoku code for Chuck's multiprocessor chip.

14:40

Using the Forth Multiprocessor Chip - Michael Montvelishsky
Michael will present on the parallel paradigm, how parallel hardware changes the algorithm options. He will also talk about generating cascaded parallel digital filters and implementing a forthlet interpreter.

15:00

Fireside Chat - Chuck Moore

16:00

Adjourn

17:00

Dinner - Golden Wok in Mountain View

Please register your interest for these future meeting topics:

• Forth Success Stories - look at the ones on FIG's and FORTH, Inc.'s webpages and bring your own!
• TI's free SPICE distribution
• Name that antenna
• Introduction to Linux
• George Perry's experiences installing Linux
• Linux installation party
• Smart Dust
• Math Secrets of Mosaic Industries' QED-Forth
• Robot Parts and Pieces - vendor(s) from the 2004 RoboNexus show
• misc8051 Forth - Charley Shattuck
• Smart Dust
• SVFIG meeting or meeting fragments as Webcast
• Space-rated Forth chip
• Forth-based mass-market appliance computers - Canon Cat and/or QX10

SVFIG welcomes everyone's participation at its monthly meetings. There are many ways you can contribute:

• bring in a hardware or software item to discuss,
• present a topic in your area of expertise,
• discuss a book, paper, website, new product, new application, or an article in Forthwrite, or
• talk about your current project.

If you would like to present at an SVFIG meeting, contact Kevin Appert.