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Thu, 16 Jun 2005

I am layout

Yesterday Marius decided that today was the day that we'd finish all the layout reviews. All of them. Like twentysomething reviews.

A layout review takes between an hour and two hours, depending on the complexity of the block. If it's not a block you designed, it'll take longer, since you have to familiarize yourself with the design before trying to screw around with the layout. Mike is mired in the throes of a design review, so he's not doing any reviews. That leaves me, Marius, and Ion. At 8 blocks each, we're talking about 16 hours of straight layout goodness.

The work isn't quite going to get divvied up that way, though. So far today (since 10a; it's now about 5p) I've done 7 reviews. A good average, but several of them were quick ones. The big hurdles are yet to come, in the form of a few op-amps I didn't design (and one VERY simple one that I did—that review should take me half an hour, I'm going to start it as soon as I'm done writing this, and I'll reward myself at its completion with a break for dinner. Mmmmm... dinner...)

Tonight I'm going to dream very regular geometric shapes in green, yellow, blue, and red.


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cw wrote


Tonight I'm going to dream very regular geometric shapes in green, yellow, blue, and red.

Man, that is no good at all, but I can sympathize: every time I close my eyes I see crystal structures now. Hope you survived...

JW Holloway wrote

Dreams
I remember dreaming, on several occasions, about a particular inductance matrix while I was working on my M.Eng. I usually dreamt that I was explaining to various people some of the properties of the matrix and why a given property was important in my application.

Messed up.

repak wrote


Well, I survived it. 11 layout reviews in 14 hours.

Now I'm a goddamned pro.

-repak




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