Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Temaek selling chartered semiconductor?

(Source)

"Singapore's Temasek Holdings is seeking to sell its stake in Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd and has approached Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) (2330.TW), the Economic Daily News reported, citing market rumors."


Looks like its the end for the semiconductor industry in Singapore? Cutting losses or an attempt to save the company? Chartered recently also had a pay cut too, looks like it's a terrible time for those folks. Will they lay me off as well? gg



1 module down!

Last friday was the official tape out date for EE4410. (Tape out in electronics terms is to submit the circuit design for fabrication.) So now that means we have nothing to do for this module till the next semester when the chip comes back, or at least close to nothing cos the foundry shoots back to us with some DRC(Design rules check) errors once in a while and we have to try to resolve those.

Sucks, now i having problem with my FYP, dunno why the results weird weird one.

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Of layout design of comparator

Yay, completed the layout design of my comparator and it passed the DRC and LVS test as well as the post-layout simulation. Most of the rest of the parts are completed too, now what's left is to stitch up the different parts and do the final overall system simulation. And if it meets our specs, that basically concludes the module! Woot! (at least for this semester that is)

Then i can start doing my FYP, too long never touch liao.. haha.

Play Light Bot

"Programming-style puzzle game. Give commands to your robot to light up the factory. Very soon you will realize though that using the main method on it’s own is not enough and you will have to start creating re-usable functions to achieve the ultimate goal."

Play Light Bot.

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