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I stood around for an hour and ten minutes this morning; Daniel could not make it due to a family afternoon outing in CZ. End of experiment, with negative results. However, thanks to whoever made the Second Life account RawNerve, but could not make it as "early" as 0800 PDT, for your interest. Back to emailing us if you have any questions. We do answer.

See reply to your other post :)

You can place orders for chips and evaluation kits right on the website; take Product Offerings in the menu on the left side of the browser, and you will see this page: http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/products/index.html

Daniel Kalny and I waited the full hour in Second Life but no one else showed up. Daniel of course had never heard of Second Life but had no problem creating an account, making an avatar and finding the shop yesterday. Perhaps on Saturday I will see someone from this rather ephemeral thread :) Why ask questions but not come for answers? Best - Greg

Regrets, that was 0100 on appropriate day Sydney :)

Greetings from Greg Bailey in Cheyenne, Wyoming where GreenArrays can say, paraphrasing Steve McQueen at the end of the superb movie Papillon, "We're still here, you Bastards!!!"

As an experiment, I will be happy to address any question that anyone might have, including those appearing in this thread, at the GreenArrays shop and lecture hall in Second Life. I propose to stand there, virtually, at 0800 PDT / 1500 UTC / 1700 CET / Midnight in Sydney, AU, on Wednesday, 13 May and again on Saturday, 16 May. The SLURL for the shop is http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Deneb/80/228/27 and the name of the shop is "GreenArrays Ventures". My name in SL is GregBailey with UUID f64abbc5-7136-40db-9dd0-a174d93d8742 and I will wait for one hour before logging if no one has shown up.

The experiment will be interesting, whether or not it produces positive results. Failing that I may find time to reply on these threads, and we do reply to questions sent to sales mailbox, domain greenarraychips.com.

So, see you Wednesday or Saturday, perhaps. Advice: To minimize wasted time, kindly go to http://www.greenarraychips.com and do a little studying, or perhaps audit some of the lectures on the arrayForth Institute that is linked from the above, or preferably both.

For the questions about what is it good for, anyone who can multiply the average power of a typical edge device in the "Internet of Things" by whichever fanciful power of ten (we are up to 12 now, are we not?) the Visionaries expect to exist of those edge devices, and then contemplate the obscene amount of average power that product represents, should be able to grasp that by wasting orders of magnitude less resources, including energy, than others do, we ought to be obviously good for something there if nowhere else:)

And now back to work on a software defined GPS receiver. I look forward to meeting anyone who might make it on Weds or Saturday!

I wish you well - Greg

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.

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.

Glad to see this thread. G144A12 does better than you'd expect for 18 bit ALUs doing 32 bit circular shifts and adds, but that costs enough extra instructions that for this particular algorithm at any Bitcoin-useful combination of throughput/energy/cost we can't compete with the genuine 32-bit ALUs of the bigger ATI GPUs. Ya can't be perfect for all problems all the time :) Nevertheless we'll be posting an app note eventually on SHA256 as an illustration of techniques in pipelining. The $20 price is for small quantities. Standard exponential decay curves apply for production quantities; we want to see our chips in people's products and are priced to encourage that. As for 20 somethings, nobody in our company gets a paycheck (yet) so someone has to be willing to work for nothing, but if you have a practical idea for an app note and want to work with us to get it done and published please email greg at greenarraychips dot com and let's discuss it. Thanks for your interest, folks - Greg Bailey, GreenArrays, Inc.