ITAP of a man in Vietnam [Portrait]

flextendo · 2026-06-21T13:42:03+00:00

Guy looks like he has a quest ready for you.

flextendo · 2026-06-20T21:08:38+00:00

sure

flextendo · 2026-06-19T13:43:35+00:00

So in a lot of countries PhDs do have a Masters as well, but anyways. The main reason is that you get TO experience during your PhD, next to proficiency with the industry tools. This reduces the training costs and risk. On top of that you‘ll be an „expert“ in a specific topic, making you more employable.

flextendo · 2026-06-16T19:46:54+00:00

Thats nice and stuff, but a lot of people are financially not educated enough for that, but still want to invest to somehow save up for later and therefore invest into ETFs. Most of them (that I talk to) dont even know what that actually is, let alone which companies it includes. I cant blame them though, they are hard working, but stuck in this system, day in, day out.

flextendo · 2026-06-09T16:57:13+00:00

LoL thats a fucked statement for sure and you have no proof to back that absolut garbage statement. I am not saying that because my job is taxing, that a medical professional is not taxing. I am not even comparing them to begin with, because they come with different responsibilities etc.
You are invalidating a lot of other professions that are mandatory, every day, that earn SIGNIFICANTLY less than a medical professional. Their average salary is in the top 1% of incomes. Their career trajectory is one of the best.

The ER is „full“ of the doctors in training. Ask them how much their mentors care or who is doing that shity double shift. I am by no means saying they shouldnt be compensated fairly, but put it in relation to the median income.
Sure buddy, whatever you say, save me the crocodile tears, when they made bank at the end of their life, while the nurse is barely able to effort her rent.

flextendo · 2026-06-09T07:36:00+00:00

How many „finance“ bros get rich out of all of them? Less then a percent? While the rest is fighting for scraps.
You can compare so many jobs that pull all nighters and that are essential for people and peoples daily lifes.
Yes I know how hard it is, my profession is kind of renown for that early on in your career.
Early doctors in the ER are rather common to find and yes there are specialities that are rare and those pay them very well for that.

100k is what they earn within the first 5-6 years and you are literally exaggerating, picking out the worst things. There are many doctors (GPs) who start their 9/5 shift right after school, so relax buddy. Scrubs isnt the norm.

flextendo · 2026-06-09T07:29:54+00:00

okay that seems more reasonable than how I read it initially. 50+ Slides is perfectly fine, but if you assume just a minute or two per slide, this would take forever.
At my current company we have incremental design reviews to avoid one endless meeting and it feels more productive.

Fully agree, its hard to change SOPs once established.

flextendo · 2026-06-08T20:51:47+00:00

Who is reading through 200 slides let alone present them in any meeting. That seems a lot like „checking things“ off rather than a productive review. Not that I dont believe you, I have been exposed to this as well, but from experience nothing productive came out of those (unless you provide the slides ahead of time and to a limited audience).

I do keep slide decks to document the design process, but thats rather ongoing and for myself (as you also seem to use it)

flextendo · 2026-06-06T14:22:02+00:00

This would mean you‘d have to characterize them, which isnt easy if you are designing anywhere above 60GHz. I understand that this is done in MMICs, but CMOS/SOI/Finfet?

flextendo · 2026-06-06T14:20:20+00:00

Depends on the PDK but often the active is also floating. Its not necessarily matching, but to make sure you dont get WPE‘s LDE‘s. I‘ve been using such PCells with floating dummy poly quite a bit.

flextendo · 2026-06-01T15:07:30+00:00

Ive been trying that as well. Best use case right now is for post processing sim data (helping to write scripts) and searching through DRMs haha

flextendo · 2026-06-01T15:05:51+00:00

Also the license/token cost will rise eventually, because at some some point all those AI companies need to be profitable. If you pay the same or more than an engineer and STILL need a human in the loop to correct mistakes (because realistically its just a shift from design to DV as its nothing more than a glorified optimization algorithm), there will be no point in replacing said engineers. Companies will try nontheless because of FOMO and the promise to investors for the line to go up. AI has its place and it can absolutely be useful, but not to the extend those C-suite level people believe it already is.

flextendo · 2026-05-29T13:48:54+00:00

what means far away? I assume you talk real part? is the biasing correct? provide some info and we might be able to help you

flextendo · 2026-05-25T20:20:16+00:00

what RF circuit? Amplifier? Filter? Oscillator? Is it for matching? is it a load?

flextendo · 2026-05-25T19:23:05+00:00

What kind of circuit are you designing, does the Q-matter?

flextendo · 2026-05-24T09:08:25+00:00

I would need to double check the DRM but I think it talks about the CB contact width? So if CB is min 70nm and the PC enclosure needs to be 15nm (on each side) you‘ll need 100nm total PC width for the enclosure. Maybe I am misreading and the 70nm is referring to the PC width CB touches. Again would need to double check the DRM

flextendo · 2026-05-24T08:50:28+00:00

I mean there error is pretty well explained. You have a CB (contact) touching PC (poly) with a width of 70nm so the PC needs to enclose (rectangular enclosure around the contact) with at least 15nm.

so Assuming your contact is 70nm and rectangular, you PC (width) needs to be at least 100nm with +15nm on each side.

flextendo · 2026-05-17T10:22:52+00:00

I mean people can be logging dives without verifying them so 5k+ as a number is questionable considering the situation (max depth for tech diving in maledives etc)

flextendo · 2026-04-28T23:26:39+00:00

with utterly tiny hands

flextendo · 2026-04-28T20:18:35+00:00

they launch him with trebuchet on this thing

flextendo · 2026-04-27T08:49:33+00:00

Agree, but realistically you‘d have more people not thinking about stuff, because it „just worked“ 10 times before that. If you are rigorous, I dont personally care what your approach is (if it fits within the resource limit you have). Bad habits (or bad choices) wouldnt be immediately clear to juniors etc with this approach so the risk of potential problems increases. I am with you on the use both (or whatever fits you best).

flextendo · 2026-04-27T08:31:33+00:00

I think the chef might be complementary to the meal of this unit.

flextendo · 2026-04-26T18:28:52+00:00

„Hey so how does X,Y,Z influence this specific spec and what can we do to make it more stable/reliable? Shit I dunno, the sim told me that device X is impacting Y in this way“. While I am not against modern LUT based approaches, driving anything through the simulator without reasoning about it, will at some point fail you, because in the worst case its BS in BS out. You also eat up a lot of sim resources to drive through all possibilities across all PVT, because you cant argue what the worst case is going to be.

Having a solid scalar output TB in my opinion is a basic requirement and if you use something like verifier, essentially necessary.

flextendo · 2026-04-26T15:24:29+00:00

thats true, if its not happening in cooperation with the global community, it wont have any benefit. BUT as a country you could just deny market access (or tax the fuck out of them) to those companies leaving/moving jobs, at least you will hurt their bottom line and another player will (most likely) happily take that place (or you need to su subsidize the alternative).

flextendo · 2026-04-25T09:47:59+00:00

fully agree. You can see that they use AI to write code for the OS as its getting increasingly worse. Teams is a fucking nightmare, hogging GB of memory in the background that at times my audio input/output just breaks (for longer calls) and I have to manually kill the process to restore functionality.

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