Xilinx Seminars in Wiesbaden, Berlin, Hannover

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

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

Peter Alfke schrieb:

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

Thomas

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Allright!

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

Nico Coesel wrote:

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 snipped-for-privacy@nishioka.com

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 snipped-for-privacy@nishioka.com

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).