[svfig-announce] SVFIG Meeting December 16

[Kevin Appert]

Cogswell College, Sunnyvale, CA   December 16  ---  this Saturday

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SVFIG  Meeting Agenda for Saturday, December 16, 2006
At Cogswell College, 1175 Bordeaux Drive,  Sunnyvale, CA
Main page --> <<<http://www.cogswell.edu>>>
Directions --> <<<http://www.cogswell.edu/directions2campus.html>>>

We are likely going to be in our usual room - 197 A and 197 B
<<<http://www.cogswell.edu/upload/Attachment/56-cogswel-lmap.jpg>>>

10:00  --- COFFEE
  <<<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DajO2imVOUE>>>

10:15  --- Bottom-up Design in Altera Stratix II FPGA --- CH Ting
	"I am trying to layout designs the way they ought to be, taking 
advantages of the
	two-dimensional structures inherently in an FPGA. Altera tools in 
Quartus II allows
	one to assign logic to specific locations, and I will show how to 
use these tools. I
	filled the entire FPGA with a gigantic 2D shift register array with 
50x816 registers.
	I am implementing the search engine Chuck Moore did for me a long 
time ago. It
	has 32 comparator arrays, each of which has 200 comparators. I can put in an
	eP32 core to control the comparator arrays to facilitate software 
development of
	searching algorithms. I hope I can get enough things done for a real 
demonstration
	at the meeeting."

	

NOON --- LUNCH
Some folks bring their lunch, some folks go to Togos.

13:00 --- INTRODUCTIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, RUMORS, RANDOM ACCESS

13:30 ---  SD Flash Card Interface --- Dave Jaffe
	Dave will discuss Forth code software that interfaces an embedded 
microcontroller
	to a SD Flash card for data logging applications.

14:32 --- BREAK

15:00 --- Random Access

16:00 --- ADJORN

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Wireless Internet access is anticipated (though not guaranteed)
at Cogswell, so bring your wifi.

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Coming to SVFIG next month:
More Forth Day planning?
Bring last-minute speaker suggestions!

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Check the SVFIG web site at http://www.forth.org/svfig/
for last minute changes to this schedule.
The most up-to-date meeting information is at
http://www.forth.org/svfig/next.html

Many thanks to our wonderful Webmeister, Dave Jaffe.

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