[svfig-announce] Meeting July 26, 2008 - TING'S HOUSE - 9 Days Hence

[Kevin Appert]

****COGSWELL WILL BE CLOSED****

This meeting will be held in the home of CH Ting at 400 Arlington Way in 
Menlo Park.

Directions: Ting's home is between 101 and Middlefield Road, between 
Willow and Marsh Roads. Get off HWY 101 at Willow Road to the west. At 
the third traffic light, turn right onto Coleman. At the second street 
circle, turn left. That's Arlington Way. See Google Maps for the exact 
location.

<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=400+Arlington+Way+,+Menlo+Park+,+CA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=39.644047,65.742188&ie=UTF8&ll=37.463345,-122.169235&spn=0.009725,0.01605&z=16&iwloc=addr>
http://tinyurl.com/6jdxgs

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SVFIG Meeting July 26, 2008 --- 9 days hence

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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS AGENDA IS EARLY AND PRELIMINARY.  CHECK THE
WEB PAGE FOR UPDATES.
   	
<<<http://www.forth.org/svfig/next.html>>>

In particular, Ting may decide to deliver his whole oration in the 
MORNING and not just the half shown here.


AGENDA
10:00  --- COFFEE AND A CHAT

10:15 ---  FORTH DAY 2008
Suggest a speaker or volunteer to speak!

10:30 --- MENU SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL STORAGE OSCILLOSCOPE --- CH TING
"I will present a new menu control system for the digital storage 
oscilloscope. I hope that I will get the ADC to work by the July meeting 
so that I will be able to demonstrate it. However, I may not be able to 
get that far. But, I will definitely get the menu control system done, 
and show it on the Olimex SAM7256 board."

Noon --- Lunch
A BBQ lunch will be provided by our host in his yard.

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

13:10 --- IRON MAN MUSEUM TOUR PLANNING
Planning may be too strong a word.  At least a headcount will be taken.
See note below.  If you won't be at Ting's, please contact Kevin at
forther_at_comcast.net

More particulars have been appended to the bottom of this email.


13:15 --- INTERESTING ITEMS - Volume 11 - Dave Jaffe
Dave will continue his survey of interesting newly-introduced 
microcontrollers, I/O peripherals, sensors, products, and gadgets that 
can provide useful and unique capabilities to Forth embedded systems. If 
anyone has come across anything that fits this category, pass them along 
to him for inclusion in his presentation.

14:00 --- DYNAMIC MEMORY RECONFIGURATION for eP32 - CH Ting
"An embedded system must boot from ROM, but for speed and ease of 
programming, it is better to run it in RAM. I tried to emulate the 
ROM-RAM reconfiguration used in some of the ARM7 chips where physical 
ROM memory is in block 1, physical RAM memory is in block 2, and block 0 
is virtual memory which can be dynamically mapped to either block 1 or 
block 2. This scheme was tested on the Altera NIOS II Board and is the 
ideal architecture for embedded FORTH systems."

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The schedule above may be reformatted or line-justified but
please transmit verbatim or not at all.   Any font you like is
alright with me.

No Newsgroup posts or other media distribution this month please!

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Broadband Internet access is not available at Ting's.

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Coming to SVFIG:
* Bring speaker suggestions TO EVERY MEETING!

* PLANNING FORTH DAY 2008 - EVERY MEETING

* Andy Korsak has been working on accessing sound cards from
Forth for amateur radio applications.  His preliminary
work is posted at the Win32Forth Yahoo group under
files/users/korsak.  Membership is required to see the files.
If you don't want to jump through the hoops, Dave has posted
a recent version of the files here:
    <<<http://www.forth.org/svfig/SoundCardIO.zip>>>


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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 Webmaster, Dave Jaffe.

Preliminary agenda along with schedule updates and
discussion may frequently be found on the SVFIG email list.
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A note from the Program Director:

The Iron Man Museum in Sunnyvale commemorates the Hendy Iron Works and 
successors.  It's a place I've been meaning to visit for some time.  You 
can have a look at a few photos here:
<<http://www.geocities.com/alkol6/>>

Is anyone interested it coming along?  The place is only open to 
civilians like us by appointment.  I have not called or emailed
yet, but I expect it will be probably in August, possibly on the second 
Monday of the month (Aug. 11).   Almost certainly on a weekday.
Probably during or adjacent to lunchtime.  Optional lunch at nearby 
restaurant.

If you're interested in coming along, drop me an email or show up at 
Ting's when noses are counted.

Kevin Appert
forther_at_comcast.net