Processor implantation

Today we went to our contract assembly House and got our cute-girl's brain implanted by a healthy one. Electrically she is fine...waiting for her to wake up...

Good to Great...

Last week, I and my team-mate visited the newly constructed floor on phase-2 of our company at Global Village Tech park. Dedicated just for the campus minds, The floor comprises large lecture halls and three big informal-meeting areas. Amazed by the way the floor was furnished, we entered a small room where some newly joined minds were expressing themselves with some crayons on paper. The height of comedy shot us when we saw books like 'Who says Elephants can't fly' and 'Good to Great' there. More worse is when these young kids read the books, understand them totally in their own perspective and impose them on the way we work. I have seen many people, who read all sort of these books, and speak a lot as if they run the company. In fact, they just try to cook their appraisal. The more funny part is when a person actually applying the facts to their day-day activities are complained by their managers that they do not speak like this...

First Circuit designed in my career

The first circuit I designed in my career is something that I would never forget in life…The solitary moments in the company when I designed it, early morning around 6.00am…The beauty of the datasheet…the versatility of the design guide…the CAD notes…the intriguing decoupling caps and so on…and also the exclamations received from my peers on seeing the design. Though this happened some 5 months before, today was the day of the design closure and launch to the next stage of the product cycle, so I would be busy placing my designed circuit on the board :)

Fry your Brains

Today, the feel of working on a Saturday was relieved. Our team members went out for a Movie…’Bheja Fry’ at the PVR for a Morning show. The film was clean fun and was a nice movie to watch. It is about people who really fry your brains. The movie had nothing to express, but was a comedy movie. The 2.5 hours passed like few minutes. Later we had lunch at the ‘Sahib sultan’-Forum. The ambience of the restaurant was really good. Now I am sitting in office after an hour of strenuous drive back, though my manager drove the car.

Operation U43

It was a crucial moment for all of us. A pre - testing was blocking everybody’s time. The operation required to remove an organ (IC - U43) completely from the PCB board. Knowing that I had to remove an IC that is very small with lot of veins (traces) running adjacently and lot of vital organs lying nearby, I relied upon the skill of our lab technician Manjunath BV. With lot of effort we first isolated the vein junctions (the PCB pads) from the IC pins, this was the most difficult as the veins were so close to each other by 0.5mm. After about 40 minutes of hard work, finally we isolated the entire organ about (7mm by 7mm) from the body…the IC from the board.
The operation is a success…The PCB will be given a small test injection (probe) tomorrow before the full test is carried on it.

Case of Gender Changer

Today, I had to shuttle between my cubicle and the electronics lab situated on the first floor. Meanwhile I noticed a innovative naming of a connector adapter...Oour SW team had a DB-9 male-female adapter, we call it the adapter. [The male/female terminology in connectors is used to differentiate the mating connector parts]. it was written on the adapter as "Gender Changer"... The name particularly amused me because of its different style of naming

“Heart is a hardware subsystem, whose firmware comes as a part of Human1.0 – Self learning neural firmware.
Love() is a function call that is called every now and then…Valentine’s day is just a SW additional patch….
Looks and wealth are just testing platforms/boards…
Go for the full system, not looking at how the test platforms are, but at the quality of Human1.0 as a whole ”

This is my quote :)