what to look for to make dft friendly RTL

In today’s world DFT(Design for TEst) is an no-excuse and design teams struggle hard to cover all the portions of the failures caused due to manufacturing.

The science behind this is DFT, rather it goes with the article, how to design rtl, which is friendly to DFT.

What all we can think up-front to make sure that the turnaround time to perform scan-insertion is less and we dont see the warnings in our test-insertion tool and then go back to RTL to ensure that we have coded our logic and our constructs are friendly enough for execution.

Some of the DFT violations include,

Modelling Violations,

improperly driven tri-states violations,

Asynchronous signal active during scan violations

flop clock/set/reset input not controllable

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to know more about this and to know how to code rtl to make DFT friendly visit the detailed article @

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how to schedule my day after layoff?

hi,

i am totally pissed off…. everywhere there is negative energies, colleagues , friends, neighbours are getting laid-off…

how do i get busy, and what i do today, how do i spend my time?

Do i partition  a day to cry, get depressed , eat and sleep or i schedule in a different way…

Huge transition when my outlook calendar gets overlapped to no entry in my calendar… what next??

now lets  plan ..

• Let me do financial budgetting, let me remember and do my budgetting and create a chart what i can call as necessity and what i can partition in luxury. Luxury portion needs to be revisited either to remove it completely or postpone like vacation,party, buying costly dresses, cars …
• Is there any way i can generate some money.
• This duration you can opt to strengthen your skills to “Sharpen your Saw” , check whether you can improve on your skills could be technical skills, soft skills, work on the area which needs improvement, we didnot found time to strengthen us , now if time and money permits can think of that. Do some certification, short-courses, higher studies.
• Write blog/maintain web-site share your work-experiences, educate others , now we need to increase self-moral. “Sharing is an art”
• Work on your areas of improvement
• Spend time with your family ,  we all had a complaint that work-life balance was not possible earlier, now we can work on the family.
• Spend time with your pets, they are stress bursters, will reduce our stress .

Energize yourself , your family, your friends, your neighbours, create positive energy amoung you around you, get charged and move on…

how to write a resume?

Employer recieves lot of applications and now it is recession time as well and so many of them apply for the same post.

To know more visit @

http://www.vlsichipdesign.com

 

•  how to make sure i get an edge over others?
• how to increase the probability of getting the resume selected?
• Can i write write resume in a paragraph?
• what all i need to put in my resume?
• Can i write a booklet as my resume or is there some restriction to the number of pages?
• what i should place in my first page?
• what all information i need to publish interms of projects?

Cover in the First page

You have only one chance , your first page should speak about yourself, it is rare chance if your first page is not so impressive its harder to have a second chance to turn the page though you might have done wonders in the pages to come, so spend lot of time , in editing and compiling the first page

 

• Always have an Objective as the first point
• Let your objective be crystal clear as a "Win-Win situation", Your employer should gain by sharing your experience to have a faster turn-around time,with Quality as well as you also gain with Remuneration and Recognition
• Now comes the important part " Profile Section/Skills"
• Your Technical Skills , Strengths, Tools,
• Your Patents, Papers, Certifications
• Write about your current Employer
• Your Roles /Designation

Next pages

• Explain about your projects. Title, Roles, Complexity, Tools/Languages/Protocols used
• Good Abstract about the project, dont write everything in this , just be short and sweet so that in your interview you have something to share
• More over write the projects from your latest one to the oldest one, no-body is interested to know what you done ten years ago, and things ,tools, languages, methodologies change so dynamically
• Write few lines about your complexity of your Role, no stories

Employer history

• Write about your Employers from latest to the oldest
• Write your duration
• Write your Roles,
• Write your Designation

Certification/Tutorials/Workshops/Conferences

• List down your Certifications
• List down your attended Tutorials
• List down attended Workshops
• List down attended Conferences

Others

• Mention your Visas, incase if you have Work-Visas
• If you are multi-lingual mention it adds value
• Your interests, let it align with the Objective or goal

how to write a resume

lost and found Job

I am trying for job but i am tired, my strategy is not working, i am not able to find job.

lets try to analyze what could have been done better.

• First and foremost though you have done Great things, it has to be documented well : RESUME , this is the first and foremost thing i would say which speaks for you, and if it does not get short-listed then doesnt make sense what knowledge base you have and who you are .
• Now lets see how to get the resume short-listed: who short-lists the resume? Its HR(human resources Department ) in most of the cases in many companies, what do they look for in the resume  [ Where he/she has done the education, which university, Which year, what stream, How many years of Experience, How much of that experience is relevant to the requirement, What company he is coming from, Does his previous company is also our kind of work they do, and some technical jargons/keywords/protocols/tool-names/skill-sets, papers, patents, Awards, (if any , as an added advantage). So Please Ensure whether these are there in your resume.
• O.k. now your resume is in the HR hands, now what next , HR passes your resume to the Technical manager of a specific Team, now it needs to get shortlisted for the requirement and need to be short-listed for the interview. so what does the Technical person looks for , he/she also looks the same in the previous para, as well as looks for projects, what kind of projects, how importance/relevance to our requirement, whether the projects looks meaningful or looks to be cooked up or junk  or Is the project just looks like an basic college ( i would call pre-undergrad stuff), what was the persons Roles and Responsibilities, how much was the duration of the project, what would had been the complexity level, and so many information any person would try to extract from it.
• Assume your resume gets short-listed , now what next : How to get through is the toughest of all questions to be answered, lets try to analyze…
• There are many aspects to the interview : Technical / Non-Technical stuff, what is the Technical Stuff ( Have you really done what ever you had written down in your Resume or false one, If you commit you have done something how confident are you in your answers, your analytical skills, Technical skills, If you have not ventured in to some domain and the interviewer asks some question then how do you really handle that stuff to try to get to options of solutions/trade-off’s, your strategy/methodology in solving the stuff and things like that.
• Now lets come to the Non-Technical skills : like Stress Management ( any real project will demand your time and increase your stress , so a basic stress test to check whether you will crip when project pressure comes or just an understanding how would you handle it, Time-Management: Fundamental point if you come to the interview late this is a data-point that you are messing up in the first and foremost , so plan yourself to be prompt to the interview schedule.
• Some Interviewers would be really boring you and testing your patience level, but still increase your threshold of patience level, it is just in that seat so be it, your turn would also come some time (Every Dog has its day , this is what my friend used to tell me, when i used to get pissed off with my interviews (10 years old story)…. so never loose patience.
• Now a days many companies has the fashion that more number of interviewers in an interview schedule for a candidate there is a wrong notion that the candidate feels the competition in getting that post/requirement filled, so never mind if five interviewers are interviewing view in a day , no wonder almost all the persons will start with "Tell me about your self" or "A brief about you" or "Sorry i was busy with the project , so i was not able to go-through your resume so please tell about you". So mentally prepare yourself as a tape-recorder to repeat the same question , the worst part would be you never know who is the deciding authority, so maintain your charm/rhythm/patience and above enjoy your day. So prepare for the basic questions like "Tell about yourself, very well, "What is the reason for leaving the company", "Prepare a brief about your project work/abstract of your project/complexities handled/any  good solution you had given in the tough time of the project, these things we usually work and forget as soon as the project ends, we as a Designer/Engineer lack a lot in document (say project documentation or be it a personal documentation (Resume writing)), so prepare yourself.
• "Attitude is the Key to Altitude"

To prepare yourself for the Technical Stuff, visit

http://www.vlsichipdesign.com/index.php/Chip-Design-Articles/asic-knowledge-house.html

Regarding Frequently asked interview Questions, almost 50 pages,  visit

http://www.vlsichipdesign.com/index.php/Chip-Design-Articles/vlsiasic-interview-questions.html

Regarding the companies where to apply , visit (still many companies need to added, give me time)

http://www.vlsichipdesign.com/index.php/Chip-Design-Articles/design-companies-india.html

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‘retention or lay-off’ : prepare ourselves

The same HR who talked about Rention of his company employees last-week, is now talking about lay-off’s/pink slips and thinks like that…. how to digest this.

There is nothing in our hands we just move along with the tide… Either “Retention or Layoff”. We as an employee just are at the recieving end . And it is a materialistic Business World where only money has value, and we all are here to do business.

No body to be blamed, it the due course of time which sets things to be prioritized.

Bottom-line of any business is to keep the share holders happy, irrespective of the market scenario.

At the good times, when things are going so good, the management talks about  “Hires/gives retention bonus to its Employees/grants Joining bonuses and things like that” versus at the tough times “lay-off’s/Head-count reduction/No recruitment/Requirement freeze/recession/pink slip/cost cutting”.

so no blame game here…

how to accept the fact and prepare for this.

• first and foremost stop your shopping , rather spending time just by shopping during weekends.
• have a financial plan, have a work-out how long can you stretch if there is a job-cut for you… do you know , we all have lot of financial commitments[home-loan/car-loan/personal loan/credit-card balance/monthly expenses] for every month, open an xls sheet, and plan right now.
• stop or post-pone your vacation plan till you are so comfortable on your financial status.
• think about your parallel money making concepts, like part-time job if possible and thinks like that, plan , at least ‘sow these seeds in your mind’ which will guide you.
• Based on your “personal balance-sheet”, work out on the areas where you can undergo cost-cutting.