a landmark day

Posted by anasimtiaz on Jul 17, 2010 in Life | 15 comments After having “clean (and vacuum) the apartment” for well over a month on my todo list, I am proudly striking it out today. Running perilously short on food supplies for 10 days…I finally stocked up for atleast a month today. My refrigerator was empty except for a bottle of milk (and two eggs, which will possibly remain there for another month or two) My bath’s shower head...
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Typical ASIC Workflow

Posted by anasimtiaz on Jul 10, 2010 in Geek Speak | 7 comments Recently I was tasked to recode a very small piece of hardware with some changes that will potentially optimize its present state. What seemed like a pretty easy and straightforward task turned out to be a nightmare for two days. Since it wasn’t critical I was hellbent on doing it all myself without asking anyone for help. Although it was a very small hardware unit, it involved the complete...
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Six Month Review

Posted by anasimtiaz on Jul 4, 2010 in Life | 4 comments Exactly six months ago was my first ever day at a full time job. I was understandably nervous, hardly knew anything about working in a big company and had no idea about how to tackle seemingly huge design issues which I was introduced to in the first week. I wasn’t worried about the latter because that is exactly what I came here to learn. I am probably slotted to have a 6-month review...
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Joys of being an ASIC Designer

Posted by anasimtiaz on Jul 1, 2010 in Geek Speak | 2 comments After spending hours and hours of deciphering a set of specs written by someone else you start writing code for hardware that will perform a certain set of operations. Usually the specs contain inputs and outputs and a lot of details of how things should be processed in between. Translating the pseudo-code in hardware is not an easy task. Usually something is missing in that doc. Anyway, you code...
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