July 2010 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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09:50 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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10:00 |
STM8S-Discovery Board - CH Ting
"Many of you
might have gotten STMicroelectronics'
STM8S-Discovery
evaluation board free at this year's Embedded Systems Conference. It has an
8-bit microprocessor, the STM8S105C6T6, and a USB link. I looked into it and
found the microprocessor is similar to the 68HC11. So I dug up my 68HC11 eForth
implementations and am trying to port it over. I will report my progress. I
hope to have a working eForth on it for demonstration at the meeting. STM is
selling this board at $10. At this price, I can tolerate all the shortcomings
in this chip."
- Slides - 149 Kb pdf file
- STM8S eForth - 21.9 Kb zip
file
- STM8S
Discovery Board Users Forum
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11:45 |
BBQ Lunch
Ting was our BBQ Chef. |
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13:00 |
Introductions, Announcements, Discussions, and Gossip -
All Assembled
This month we went around the room - each introduced
themselves and described the coolest new product or tool they've seen
lately.
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13:30 |
Expert System for Engine Analysis - Dennis A.
Ruffer
Dennis will describe a expert system he wrote many years ago in
Forth to diagnose automobile engines in instruments built by the Test Products
Division of Allen Group.
- Allen
Smart Engine Analyzer - Smart Scope
Training Manual - 108 Mb pdf file
- Matrix method and apparatus for engine analysis -
Patent 4373186 - 483 Kb pdf file
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14:30 |
Break |
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14:50 |
Learning to Play with the FPGA - Kevin
Appert
"I'm trying to get started, probably with VHDL, probably with
Spartan
3 or
3E.
I'd be grateful for advice."
- VHDL vs Verilog
- pros and cons of various development boards
- best books to buy/borrow
- other member's spare books or boards to beg, borrow or
buy
- is anyone interested in forming a study group?
- who can I email for help?
- group project to explore and/or update John Rible's CPU
class
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15:05 |
Topic Grab Bag - Everyone
We'll talk about
something, here are some thoughts:
- TestSerial.f - translated to
GForth by Dennis Ruffer
- VentureForth
plugins - Dennis Ruffer
- MAC OS X Serial Port
Programming on MacRumors
- Issues
writing to serial port on MAC OSX from Stackoverflow
- Serial
Tools
- SerailPortSample
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16:00 |
Adjourn |
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Other items:
- Forth
- Software
- Hardware
- Books
- Forth Jobs
- Other
- Programmers Quotes
- North
Carolina Maker Faire videos
- Photos from meeting by
Kevin Appert
- Sam Falvo blog
- Unit Tests Enhance
Code Familiarity
- Quick Bash Tip:
Environment Variables as Aliases
- Spammer Alert:
Likely Screen-Scraper Outfit Identified
- Unsuitable in Unsuitable:
- Foreward
- Concepts
- General Object
Store
- Articles
Table
- The CGI
Interface
- Index
Generation
- RSS Feed
Generation
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