Last updated: 20 December 2009


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Getting to MPE

MultiMap Map courtesy of MultiMap
http://www.railtrack.co.uk/travel Railtrack and timetables
http://www.swtrains.co.uk South West Trains
http://www.baa.co.uk British Airports Authority - including Southampton Airport
http://www.southampton.gov.uk City of Southampton

If you are travelling to Southampton from Heathrow or Gatwick airports, the best local taxi company is Airport Express. Their telephone number is:
  +44 (0)1489 696969
Fares at September 2009 are about GBP 75 each way and are much cheaper than booking a taxi at the airport! Please book several days in advance.

If you arrive at Southampton airport, train or bus stations, local taxis are available at the exits.


MicroProcessor Engineering Limited
133 Hill Lane
Southampton
SO15 5AF
U.K.

Tel: +44 (0) 23 8063 1441
Fax: +44 (0) 23 8033 9691


MPE Customers

http://www.ccssa.com CCS
http://www.safersystems.co.uk Safer Systems
http://www.innovatia.com Innovatia Labs
http://www.maestro.com.au Maestro's PBX uses PowerNet
http://microssautomation.com/ Nick Nelson & Micross
http://www.lanbox.com/ Lanbox - extraordinary lighting controllers

Forth Language Resources

FLAG - Forth Library Action Group A collection of Forth libraries in source code form.
http://www.simple-talk.com/ Interview with Chuck Moore, the inventor of Forth.
http://www.forth.org The main Forth repository
ftp://taygeta.com/pub/Forth A good source of all things Forth
http://www.ptsc.com ShBoom chip by Chuck Moore

Semiconductors

http://www.standardics.nxp.com/ NXP (was Philips)
http://www.infineon.com Infineon - was Siemens
http://www.arm.com ARM
http://www.renesas.com Renesas - merged Hitachi and Mitsubishi controllers
http://developer.intel.com Intel Developer Network

TCP/IP

www.rfc-editor.org The source for RFCs (Requests for Coments) that define all aspects of TCP/IP and Internet protocols.
http://www.nonags.com TFTP server

Control Area Network Resources

http://www.can-cia.org CAN in Automation

I2C

NXP/Philips I2C home NXP/Philips I2C home page

Newsgroups

comp.lang.forth Discussion of all things Forth related. These people are some of the most helpful on the Net.
comp.arch.embedded Embedded systems design
comp.realtime Real-time programming issues.

Miscellaneous

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ Some of the best discussion of software development
http://www.bordeaux-accommodation.com/
See also 		Stephen's favourite B&B in France. Cooking to die for, especially the fish soup.
http://www.emvco.com/ EMV Smartcard data.
http://www.wotsit.org File Formats
http://playground.sun.com/pub/1275/
See also for FTP 		Everything Open Firmware
http://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/ UK source of bits for robots, including cameras and servos

Low cost and free software

http://www.ultraedit.com/ Our favourite programmer's editor. Get the Forth syntax file for v15 onwards here, or for previous versions here. The Linux version is in Beta test.
http://www.scootersoftware.com/ The best source code compare/merge tool we've found, and there's a Linux version too.
http://www.ipswitch.com/ The Windows FTP client we always come back to
The Free Country Useful
Programmers Heaven Useful
Shareware Junkies Useful