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I was doing my layout today and it was moving along briskly when I found out that the two day laborers my dad hired to replace a sewer pipe were paid $100 each for a day’s work.
Why did that give me a sudden surge of demotivation?
My net pay each month is $1736. If I do [...]

Old person #1: Blah blah blah blah blah.
Me: Blah blah blah blah blah.
Old person #1: Do you have a girlfriend?
Me: …
Old person #2: Oh you’re back!
Me: Yes I am.
Old person #2: I see you grew out your hair.
Me: Yes I did.
Old person #2: Was the weather too cold?
Me: Yeah, that’s why I grew out my [...]

I realized that I haven’t introduced SPICE monkey to my readers so now is the time to do so.
SPICE is a circuit simulator developed at Berkeley in the 1970’s. Since then, other circuit simulators have been introduced, most notably Spectre by Cadence Design Systems. However, SPICE is generically understood to be any circuit simulator. If [...]

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With time running out and with one fixable fatal flaw in my circuit, I have decided to solve the problem with a 1nF MOS capacitor. (There’s another fatal flaw in my circuit but there’s nothing I can do about it so I’ll just let it be.)
Yes, you heard me right, I said 1 nanofarad. I [...]

I only got 2.5 hours of sleep last night because I was preparing for a design review. The purpose of a design review is to explain your design, to demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that the circuit will work, and to address most problems. Knowing that my design is a piece of crap, I figured [...]

Today at 4pm, I found out that I will have a design review tomorrow at noon. Before finding out, I lacked motivation. I lacked the desire to test every aspect of my amplifier. Now I have to run a whole mess of tests, assemble a power point presentation, and convince my audience that my amplifier [...]

I hate foundry X because foundry X has a LOUSY design kit. I will not name foundry X by name because foundry X will sue me if I do. I will say that I love foundries Y and Z because these foundries have nice design kits.
What do I hate about foundry X’s design kit?
1. I [...]

I am now in tape-out mode where not only do I try to get my circuit to meet the specs, I also really care if this thing is actually manufacturable or not. What’s scary is that after taking countless circuit classes and learning how things can go wrong, it is now time for me to [...]

My professor dropped by my office today to tell me that he was slightly peeved about what I’ve been posting on the class discussion board. Not that I was posting stuff I wasn’t supposed to, but he said he would like to spend his time on the discussion board helping people who are having difficulties [...]