This describes the initial implementation of the Forth Recognizers extension in SwiftForth, starting with SwiftForth 4.0.0-RC75 beta version. Background The Forth interpreter doesn’t have a standard method for extending how it processes various kinds of text tokens in the input stream. SwiftForth and other systems have long had hooks that provided places to extend the … Read more
Sometimes in the course of interactive debugging and testing, your target may crash and become unresponsive at the SwiftX command line. For targets that implement interactive debugging via JTAG (most ARM parts) or BDM (ColdFire parts), you can query the target’s registers and memory to get some idea of what’s happening. This post presents a … Read more
SwiftForth extends the Standard Forth CATCH and THROW exception handling to include exceptions signaled by the underlying OS (Windows vectored exceptions, Linux signals, macOS signals).
The innovations at Radeus Labs, Inc. include satellite communications technology. They invited FORTH, Inc. to join their Model 8200™ development team, notably supplying all firmware and other programming for their controller for larger dish antennas (satellite earth stations). The software interfaces with hardware controllers and limit switches in order to position the antenna precisely, as … Read more
GE Digital Energy Under a series of contracts with GE Digital Energy, FORTH, Inc. developed the firmware for the Ether-100, CDAX, OC-48, Ether-1000, and STM-16 units in the GE JungleMUX SONET and TN1Ue SDH multiplexer product line (synchronous optical networking). We continue to provide support for upgrades and enhancements to these system components. The robust … Read more
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s Space Shuttle carries a 50-foot long, six-joint arm for use in satellite deployment and retrieval operations and to assist astronauts in servicing tasks such as the recent mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. The arm, formally called the Remote Manipulator System (RMS), has ten different modes … Read more
University of Detroit Mercy Dr. Mark J. Paulik Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Detroit Mercy (Detroit, Michigan) I began using your SwiftX package this year in my 400-level embedded systems class. The class explores the Motorola MC9S12DP256 processor (a variant of the 68HC12) in some detail, and is accompanied by a laboratory … Read more
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Systems Under a series of contracts with Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Systems, FORTH, Inc. participated in the design and did the full implementation of the firmware for the Master Controller unit in the S-Band Mobile Array Telemetry (SMART) phased array antenna, which has been successfully deployed at sea aboard … Read more
Sacramento Municipal Utility District Gary Sprung, Senior Real-Time Specialist Operations Management Systems Dept. Sacramento Municipal Utility District (Sacramento, California) Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) operates two 1-megawatt photo voltaic generating plants, PV1 and PV2, the largest of their kind in the United States. Operating in a 20-acre field near the closed Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating … Read more
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Robert T. Caffrey, NASA/GSFC The following material is taken from the paper, "Forth in Space: Interfacing SSBUV, a Scientific Instrument, to the Space Shuttle," written by Robert T. Caffrey for the June, 1992, Rochester Forth Conference. It describes the development of the Forth-based Small Payload Accommodations Interface Module (SPAIM), which … Read more