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| Chris Hodapp | true | 2008-05-17 14:39:34+00:00 | post | overdue-scrap-notes-20080501-0516 | Overdue scrap notes, 2008.05.01-05.16 | 84 |
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2008.04.30
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Reaktor diary: might be helpful as I learn to use Reaktor
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Despite that this program is not open source but proprietary, it offers more comprehensible insight into its workings than any of the open source synth software I have tried so far.
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Given, I've only used a couple premade instruments, but their internal structure is out-in-the-open in the form of modules, not as blocks of code that I would have a hard time finding and a harder time comprehending.
2008.05.06
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Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: "A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and (about a dozen schools).... Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities."
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Linux Softpedia - EDA: looks like a good collection of Electronic Design Automation software for Linux
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Signs (or here): "a tool for logic synthesis and gate level simulation... include synthesis of RTL-style VHDL circuit descriptions and a dynamic graphical netlist viewer..."
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KTechLab: "...an Open Source Intergated Design Environment (IDE) for electronic and PIC microcontroller circuit design and simulation."
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Alliance CAD: "a complete set of free CAD tools and portable libraries for VLSI design... includes a VHDL compiler and simulator, logic synthesis tools, and automatic place and route tools."
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Octeon Plus - some chip, 4 to 16 MIPS64 core, 600-1000 MHz, 15-40W power usage... looks pretty fast (Linuxdevices link)
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Helpful link about silkscreening/screenprinting from nomediakings.org
2008.05.09
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"This Film is Not Yet Rated" (IMDB) - some movie my friend Adam recommended; looks like the full version is online, for now, at Google Videos
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Univ. of Manchester, Advanced Processor Tech. Group - good link for some software projects and papers relevant to processors
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"In Defense of Lost Causes" - Slavoj Zizek (Amazon)... maybe an interesting book from a "Slovene sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic." who describes himself as a Marxist
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"Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe" - Arianna Huffington (Amazon) . . . just in case you needed more anti-conservative propaganda
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Past public lectures from Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics are available here (though videos look like mostly Windows Media Player or Flash).
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SIMH: software from the Computer History Simulation Project, able to simulate (not emulate?) a variety of rather old hardware, like the DEC PDP
2008.05.16
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Excerpts from Einstein's letter to Eric Gutkind on 1954-01-03 - expresses some of his views on religion pretty well... apparently lining up a bit with the "Deus sive nature" views of Spinoza
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Reconfigurable computing... worth learning about.
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Microcode... also worth learning about, particularly with x86
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FpgaC: "FpgaC compiles a subset of the C language to net lists which can be imported into an FPGA vendors tool chains... excellent alternative to VHDL/Verilog for algorithmic expression of FPGA reconfigurable computing tasks." . . . like an HLL rather than an HDL.
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Atmel FPSLIC: AVR microcontroller and SRAM-based FPGA combined on one die
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Achronix: FPGAs running up to around 2 GHz
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OpenCores: Designs and publishes core designs (for FPGAs, CPLDs, ASICs in general) under a license based on the LGPL
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OpenFPGA: Promote FPGAs in blahblahblah by trying to have open standards and information and practices
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Pragmatic Marketing: I dunno, but I've read a few useful links here
2008.05.16
- "Commonwealth - Economics for a Crowded Planet" - Jeff Sachs (link at marginalrevolution.com)