[svfig-announce] Forth Day, Saturday, November 19

Kevin Appert forther at comcast.net
Tue Nov 15 10:00:33 PST 2005


FORTH DAY 2005 Schedule

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SVFIG  Meeting Agenda for FORTH DAY
Saturday, November 19, 2005
At Cogswell College, 1175 Bordeaux Drive,  Sunnyvale, CA
http://www.cogswell.edu

9:00  --- Coffee and Networking ---  NOTE EARLY START TIME!!!

9:25   --- CHAIRMAN'S WELCOME --- George Perry

9:30  --- 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 --- C.H. Ting
Finally we have 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 DEMO --- Bob Nash
http://www.forth.com/

11:30 --- CARBON MACFORTH DEMO --- George Perry
http://www.macforth.com/

12:00  --- LUNCH
Lunch will be catered by Doctor Ting

1:00 --- INTRODUCTIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, RUMORS, GOSSIP

1:10 --- TREASURER'S REPORT --- John Rible

1:20 --- 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.

2:20 --- SUDOKU - John Rible
Recoding Robert Spykerman's Sudoku code for Chuck's multiprocessor chip.

2:40 --- 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.

3:00 --- FIRESIDE CHAT ---  Chuck Moore

4:00 --- ADJOURN

5:00 --- DINNER --- Golden Wok

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Wireless Internet access is anticipated (though not guaranteed) at 
Cogswell, so bring your wifi.
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If you would like to present at a SVFIG meeting,  please email me, Kevin 
Appert  forther at com-you-know-the-rest.com  (see the return address)
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