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Peter Alfke

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May 29, 2007, 4:35:24 PM5/29/07
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X-Fest is a very successful and highly technical seminar series, given
in 92 cities worldwide.
For the June 5, 12, and 14 seminars in three German locations, I will
give the keynote address.
Come and learn for a full day, “auf deutsch”
For details, and to register, click on:

http://eetimes.eu/design/199500991
http://www.em.avnet.com/xfest/xlx

Peter Alfke, Xilinx Applications, with apologies for this commercial
message.

Nico Coesel

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May 30, 2007, 2:09:52 PM5/30/07
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Peter Alfke <pe...@xilinx.com> wrote:

Hmm, so many locations in Germany... Amsterdam is a much better choice
:-)

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Peter Alfke

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May 30, 2007, 2:44:48 PM5/30/07
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On May 30, 11:09 am, n...@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel) wrote:

HT-Lab

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May 30, 2007, 2:44:56 PM5/30/07
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"Nico Coesel" <ni...@puntnl.niks> wrote in message
news:465dbd7f....@news.planet.nl...

> Peter Alfke <pe...@xilinx.com> wrote:
>
>>X-Fest is a very successful and highly technical seminar series, given
>>in 92 cities worldwide.
>>For the June 5, 12, and 14 seminars in three German locations, I will
>>give the keynote address.
>>Come and learn for a full day, "auf deutsch"
>>For details, and to register, click on:
>>
>>http://eetimes.eu/design/199500991
>>http://www.em.avnet.com/xfest/xlx
>>
>>Peter Alfke, Xilinx Applications, with apologies for this commercial
>>message.
>
> Hmm, so many locations in Germany... Amsterdam is a much better choice
> :-)

Sigh......I remember my students days in Amsterdam.....actually I can't, not
sure what I was doing during those years.... must have been the many happy
mushrooms I eat or was it the daily morning space cake?.... :-)

Hans
www.ht-lab.com

Peter Alfke

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May 30, 2007, 2:50:57 PM5/30/07
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Avnet picked Eindhoven as the preferred site in the Netherlands.
But the X-Fest seminar there was a month ago...
But the traditional European FPGA conference will be in Amsterdam in
August.
Peter

Thomas Heller

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May 30, 2007, 3:02:23 PM5/30/07
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Peter Alfke schrieb:

> X-Fest is a very successful and highly technical seminar series, given
> in 92 cities worldwide.
> For the June 5, 12, and 14 seminars in three German locations, I will
> give the keynote address.
> Come and learn for a full day, “auf deutsch”
> For details, and to register, click on:
>
> http://eetimes.eu/design/199500991
> http://www.em.avnet.com/xfest/xlx
>

Has anyone success to register on the avnet site? It didn't work for me.
Tried IE and Firefox.

Thomas

austin

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May 30, 2007, 3:02:41 PM5/30/07
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Hans,

Like the joke here about attending UC Berkeley in the late 1960's
("summer of love"): "if you can remember it, you weren't here."

By the way, I was (for a short time) a counselor for the BCIPD (Berkeley
Committee for Information on Psychedelic Drugs): one of the great
crimes, and wastes of good minds was the abuse of both legal, and
illegal drugs by the youth of that time. These poor souls are now
cluttering up the mental hospitals, or wandering the streets, and have
become a burden to society.

Not that I have any solution to this (continuing) problem, but I at
least had the chance to talk to people and try to convince them not to
turn their brains into soup.

I am also fortunate I survived.

Austin

u_st...@yahoo.de

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May 30, 2007, 6:08:04 PM5/30/07
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hi

just a quick question: i saw that there is one x-fest in vienna on
june 21.
i am a student. can i register and attend aswell? and is it really
free?

thanks
Urban

Peter Alfke

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May 30, 2007, 7:06:20 PM5/30/07
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The answer is: Yes, yes, and yes.
The earlier engineers/students become familiar with our parts, the
better.
Herzlich willkommen. Es ist nie zu frueh, mit FPGAs vertraut zu
werden.
Peter

HT-Lab

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May 31, 2007, 11:21:42 AM5/31/07
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"austin" <aus...@xilinx.com> wrote in message
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Hi Austin,

I wasn't serious, most people associate Amsterdam with drugs which is
obviously a distorted view. To be honest, I was actually quite a boring
non-smoking, non-drinking, non-drug taking nerd that spend most of his time
studying and playing with his AppleII+............. oh well, at least I
ended up with a great job :-)

Drugs (mainly alcohol here in the UK) it is indeed a serious problem but I
am afraid that even if there was a solution nobody would take notice of it,

Regards,
Hans.
www.ht-lab.com


austin

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May 31, 2007, 12:55:41 PM5/31/07
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Hans,

I too, was a boring, slide rule toting Engineering "nerd."

As I walked across campus, the Alameda County Sheriffs ("Blue Meanies)
would be drinking their coffee with their dough nuts, remarking "good
day for a riot, isn't it?"

Go read "People's Park" on Wikipedia for a fairly well written
historical account of those days.

Austin

Nico Coesel

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May 31, 2007, 1:42:57 PM5/31/07
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Peter Alfke <pe...@xilinx.com> wrote:

>Avnet picked Eindhoven as the preferred site in the Netherlands.

They probably didn't want to drive too far themselves. Eindhoven is a
bit of a technology hotspot due to Philips but it is in the east part
of the country. Most people and companies are located in the west part
of the country. Most major events are therefore either located in
Amsterdam or Utrecht.

>But the X-Fest seminar there was a month ago...
>But the traditional European FPGA conference will be in Amsterdam in
>August.

Allright!

Peter Alfke

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May 31, 2007, 5:39:47 PM5/31/07
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Just to put it in perspective:
Amsterdam to Eindhoven is 120 km or 75 miles, barely an hour's drive.
But 6 hours by bicycle, the favorite mode of transportation.
Nice, flat country... :-)
(I grew up just on the other side of that border, and rode my bike all
over the Netherlands, long time ago.)
Peter

Alan Nishioka

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May 31, 2007, 5:47:36 PM5/31/07
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So, to tie in with another part of this thread, FPGA's really are like
drugs. Get them while they're young and the first hit is free.

Alan Nishioka
al...@nishioka.com

Peter Alfke

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May 31, 2007, 6:23:32 PM5/31/07
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Just to put it in perspective:
Amsterdam to Eindhoven is 120 km or 75 miles, barely an hour's drive.
But 6 hours by bicycle, the favorite mode of transportation.
Nice, flat country... :-)
(I grew up just on the other side of that border, and rode my bike all
over the Netherlands, long time ago.)
Peter

On May 31, 10:42 am, n...@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel) wrote:

Alan Nishioka

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May 31, 2007, 10:33:49 PM5/31/07
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On May 30, 4:06 pm, Peter Alfke <p...@xilinx.com> wrote:

So, to tie in with another part of this thread, FPGA's really are like

Peter Alfke

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May 31, 2007, 11:03:12 PM5/31/07
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So were microprocessors and PCs in an earlier era, and amateur (ham)
radio even earlier...
Peter Alfke,
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
======================================
> a...@nishioka.com


Nico Coesel

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Jun 1, 2007, 12:25:06 PM6/1/07
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Peter Alfke <pe...@xilinx.com> wrote:

>Just to put it in perspective:
>Amsterdam to Eindhoven is 120 km or 75 miles, barely an hour's drive.

That is probably true on sunday 22:00 in the evening during the summer
holiday and if you have money to pay for the speeding tickets. The
rest of the week it is a bigger misery due to traffic congestion. 3
hours is more likely (using the train may be faster if nothing goes
wrong there).

>But 6 hours by bicycle, the favorite mode of transportation.
>Nice, flat country... :-)
>(I grew up just on the other side of that border, and rode my bike all
>over the Netherlands, long time ago.)
>Peter
>
>
>
>Nico Coesel wrote:
>> Peter Alfke <pe...@xilinx.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Avnet picked Eindhoven as the preferred site in the Netherlands.
>>
>> They probably didn't want to drive too far themselves. Eindhoven is a
>> bit of a technology hotspot due to Philips but it is in the east part
>> of the country. Most people and companies are located in the west part
>> of the country. Most major events are therefore either located in
>> Amsterdam or Utrecht.
>>
>>> But the X-Fest seminar there was a month ago...
>>> But the traditional European FPGA conference will be in Amsterdam in
>>> August.
>>
>> Allright!
>>

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Jeff Cunningham

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Jun 2, 2007, 10:31:22 AM6/2/07
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Ah, microprocessors, the "gateway" technology. Start using those and
pretty soon you'll be into stronger stuff like FPGAs.

Peter Alfke wrote:
> So were microprocessors and PCs in an earlier era, and amateur (ham)
> radio even earlier...
> Peter Alfke,

>> So, to tie in with another part of this thread, FPGA's really are like

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