Handling a baby and PD experience

 A new born baby demands continuous, restless days and nights to the extent that becomes the norm and the parents forget the ‘normal’ days. As a PD engineer with days and weeks and months of restlessness and night outs with new rtls, timing closure, ECOs is well trained to handle this. Giving a short run and a fix and waiting for the update timing and report timing and taking a few minutes nap is akin to the baby sleeping for a few minutes windows and waking up all energetic in the nights…the crawling baby or a just learnt-to-walk baby goes anywhere pulling anything on the way with a lot of energy demands the parent to be continuously vigilant, keep putting the baby back to safety…a small distraction will create a lot of rework as the baby spills the milk or similar things causing lot of rework…a small mistake in the settings or inputs or files creates a lot of rework in PD too…there is absolutely no idea what the baby wants and all it does is to cry…only the mother knows what it needs after a lot of time spending to understand the baby…only a PD engineer understands what is needed for the design after spending a lot of time with the data flow, floorplan etc. the mother needs to manage all the family members giving lots of suggestions and extracting the useful advices and filtering out the noise…multiple stakeholders from different domains have loads of requirements and the PD engineer need to constrain the design, spec and ensure signoff correlation…with generations of experience from elders and grandmothers coming on, there is still a lot of things that won’t work with this baby and need to invent, innovate new ideas to take care of this baby…even if there is a flow with multiple tapeouts done, every design is unique and needs new methodologies, flow fixes to be adopted…one needs a lot of patience to deal with the baby and a PD engineer lots of patience in dealing with the flow, servers, runs and input issues…while raising a baby is a Herculean task, a PD engineer would have some experience in better handling the baby…