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Re:Chuck Moore: Programming a 144-computer Chip to Minimize ... by honkybozo on Friday December 20, 2013 @02:59PM (#6943590)
Two of the GA144 evaluation boards on my bench here in my office both shoot UDP packets out to learn the date and time when they boot. UDP over IPv4 over bit-banged 10baseT. You may ping one of them at g144.minerva.com.
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Re:Chuck Moore: Programming a 144-computer Chip to Minimize ... by fidotron on Friday December 20, 2013 @03:10PM (#6943655)
That's on the standard eval boards? You've managed to get me interested in this rabbit hole again!
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Re:Chuck Moore: Programming a 144-computer Chip to Minimize ... by honkybozo on Friday December 20, 2013 @06:46PM (#6944926)
We have a little piggyback board with transformer, 10 MHz fox osc, and a dual op-amp to let us swing enough V to make the spec for twisted pair. Haven't started offering them publicly yet, but the code has been running two years. We gave an overview of the software defined NIC at SVFIG Forth Day 2012; video and powerpoint available thru SVFIG. The code is in the current arrayForth distribution. Still waiting for time to finish converting TCP to run on the 16-bit polyFORTH model but IP, ICMP, ARP, UDP all work. TCP only knows how to send a proper RESET.
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