[Speakers] Re: SVLUG speaking engagement request

[Joyce Cao Traugott]

Yes, October 2 is open.

Joyce


Steve Traugott wrote:
> 
> Absolutely.  Let's do this.  Joyce, we haven't booked October yet,
> right?
> 
> All I need is a description/bio like the one attached.
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 12:15:22PM -0700, Michael Baxter wrote:
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> > My name is Michael Baxter, and I work at Xilinx, which makes Field
> > Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices. I'm also a friend of Don
> > Marti's, who has managed to drag me to the masthead of Linux Journal,
> > where I make some contributions with the editorial staff. I also do some
> > collaboration on Open Source EDA tools, here in Silicon Valley.
> >
> > The reason I'm emailing you is that I'd like to request a speaking
> > engagement opportunity at the October SVLUG meeting, on behalf of my
> > Xilinx colleague Peter Ryser.
> >
> > Peter has been managing the embedded Linux software program at Xilinx,
> > for our Virtex-II Pro FPGA devices. These FPGAs are way cool,
> > incorporating a PowerPC 405 core, along with a user-programmable
> > flexible logic fabric, Multi-Gigabit Transceiver (MGT) cores, and other
> > stuff. This family of FPGAs is going to be very cool for embedded Linux
> > applications, because they allow a high-end systems to be flexibly
> > constructed according to the user's design, all on a single chip. The
> > FPGA device even allows reconfiguration after embodied in a system, such
> > as over the Internet. Peter also has worked on the software tools
> > development effort for this FPGA family.
> >
> > We'd like to show the SVLUG audience a test and development board
> > running Linux directly on the PPC in the FPGA device doing cool things.
> > I saw a demo this morning, and it was running Quake on an xterm, on a
> > color TFT LCD display. The reason for the October request is that all
> > this hardware/software is very new, and a little unstable at present,
> > plus the FPGAs are literally right off the fab line. We want to present
> > something a lot more solid, and October is a preferred date, to give us
> > the set up time needed.
> >
> > For reference, here's a relatively recent media alert on Virtex-II Pro,
> > for a CAD-related trade-show:
> > http://www.xilinx.com/prs_rls/software/0287dacmediaalert.html
> >
> > Anyway, could you let me know soon if you have the interest, and whether
> > this date works for SVLUG? If OK with you, we'll lock the date in, and
> > prepare for it. I can also have Peter generate a little abstract for you
> > ASAP, so you can do the usual pre-announce on the SVLUG web site.
> >
> > I thank-you kindly for your time.
> >
> > Best,
> > Michael Baxter
> > Sr. Systems Staff Engineer
> > APD System Engineering Group
> > Xilinx
> >
> >
> 
> --
> Steve Traugott
> Speaker Coordinator, Silicon Valley Linux Users Group
> http://www.svlug.org
> --
> UNIX/Linux Infrastructure Architect, TerraLuna LLC
> stevegt at TerraLuna.Org
> http://www.stevegt.com
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