80 Hours! A New Personal Record!

[coleslaw]

If I can stay awake for about 30 more minutes, I will have gone 80 hours without sleep this week! Surprisingly, I am not feeling overly tired at the moment. I have not been hallucinating, either, so I am wondering just how much longer I can last!


Why have I been awake for 80 hours, you ask? Well, let's take a look at my schedule for the past week:


Monday: worked on VLSI chip design and layout in MAGIC (http://research.compaq.com/wrl/projects/magic/magic.html) and simulation in IRSIM
Tuesday, 3 am: SLEPT
Tuesday, 11 am: Woke up
Tuesday - Wednesday afternoon: finalized VLSI chip design and report/user's manual (23 hours spent in the lab in a single day! :eek: )
Wednesday night - Thursday morning: Studied for Semiconductor Microfabrication final exam
Thursday, 8 - 10 am: Semiconductor Microfabrication final exam
Thursday, 10am - 4 pm: Studied for Physical VLSI Design final exam
Thursday, 4 - 6 pm: VLSI final exam
Thursday night - Friday morning: Worked on two DSP projects in MATLAB, studied for Microwave Communications final exam
Friday, 1:30 - 3:30 pm: Microwave Communications final exam
Friday, 4:30 - 5 pm: Professor looked over my VLSI chip design and approved it for submission to MOSIS (http://www.mosis.org) for fabrication.
Friday, 5:30pm: mmmmmmmm, Chipotle!


So yeah, that pretty much sums up my week from hell.

Actually, I must say that I have a very surreal feeling right now, as if my being was not fully contained inside my flesh, but rather hovering around within its vacinity. It's almost as if I were high! :bandit:

It's rather amusing how I stated at the beginning of this post (when I first started typing) that I was not yet hallucinating. It's funny how quickly things can change! :P


I hope and pray that I never have to go through another week like this one ever again! I would not wish this upon my worst enemy! :(

[Nija]

May you halluicante a beautiful woman slobbering on your...

*watches coleslaw pass out*

:heh:

[Grimm]

Go to sleep! And when you wake up, go review your work.

[TofuNinja]

Don't you love finals week

[Jihforce]

Heh Chipotle! Say that fast enough and it starts sounding like Triple A. :heh:

[Kevster]

Wow Slaw! Congrats! You and I have one more thing in common - I submitted a VLSI design to MOSIS just over 7 years ago! Now wait until it comes back and you get to test it. I was like a proud papa when I demonstrated my processor to my professors (they were really happy too - that was the first time my school had ever done that).

I still have my VLSI chip sitting in a small case on my desk here at work. :D

[coleslaw]

Kevster: Which school did you attend? I was under the impression that MOSIS only allowed fabricated designs for a handful of universities because they require that the chips be tested and only a few schools offer both the design course and the subsequent test & validation course.

My university was the first to offer the minor that I am pursuing in VLSI Systems Engineering, which requires four 4-credit courses: Physical VLSI design, VLSI System design, VLSI Design Automation and, lastly, VLSI Test & Validation.

[Speedfreak]

You got me beat. I'm only going on 25 hours.

[Kevster]

Originally posted by coleslaw
Kevster: Which school did you attend? I was under the impression that MOSIS only allowed fabricated designs for a handful of universities because they require that the chips be tested and only a few schools offer both the design course and the subsequent test & validation course.

My university was the first to offer the minor that I am pursuing in VLSI Systems Engineering, which requires four 4-credit courses: Physical VLSI design, VLSI System design, VLSI Design Automation and, lastly, VLSI Test & Validation.

I went to Loyola Marymount University - one of the EE professors that specialized in chip design and fabrication offered two graduate-level 4-unit classes in VLSI design and I took both of them. The MAGIC software you used to design is a general public-domain version of Verilog - remember that for your resume. I used IRSM for my design simulation too. :)

We had to put in a lot of extra time after the class was over to do the placement and traces correctly so we could get it completed in time and have all the documentation and simulations complete for MOSIS. It's something I'm always proud to say I've done. :D