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లైవ్ వైర్

  పది రూపాయల బెట్టు పెట్టుకొని పది మంది పదమూడు ముక్కలాట పేకాడుతున్నారు..లైఫ్    లేదు జోకర్ లేదు సరికదా ఏ రెండు ముక్కలూ కలవడం లేదు..డ్రాప్ కి అవకాశం లేదు ..పక్కనవాడు వేసిన ముక్క ఆల్రెడీ రెండున్నాయి అవే …డ్రాపుdaama అనుకుంటూ సరే చూద్దాం అని ముక్క తీస్తే రంగురంగుల దుస్తులతో విజయనగర సామ్రాజ్యంలో విదూషకుడి వేషంలో నవ్వుతూ వచ్చిన జోకర్ ముక్క చూస్తే అప్రయత్నంగా ముఖం మీద ఒక చిరునవ్వు వచ్చి వాలుతుంది…ఎంతో గంభీరంగా సాగే థియేటర్ లో కిక్కురుమనకుండా సినిమాలో మమేకమై మునిగిపోయి చూస్తున్న సమయంలో అనుకోకుండా ఒక బ్రహ్మానందమో ధర్మవరపు సుబ్రహ్మణ్యమో వెన్నెల కిశోరో వస్తే మనస్సు తేలికపడుతుంది…హాయిగా అనిపిస్తుంది…అప్రయత్నంగా, రాబోయేది హాస్య సన్నివేశం అని తెలిసి అది రాకుండానే ఒక చిరు దరహాసం వచ్చి చేరుతుంది…ఎండాకాలంలో మిట్టమధ్యాహ్నం ఎండలో నడవాల్సి వచ్చి విజయవాడ ఉక్కపోతలో చమటలు జలపాతంలా కారిపోతుంటే టుర్రు మంటూ ఒక బజాజ్ చేతక్ మీద వచ్చి లిఫ్టు కావాలా బాబాయ్ అని ఎవరైనా వచ్చి అడిగినప్పుడు ఆ ఫీలింగే వేరప్పా…పిచ్చ ఫార్మ్ లో ఉన్న మాథ్యూ హేడెన్ జస్టిన్ లాంగర్ ఓపెనింగ్ పార్ట్నర్షిప్ భయంకరంగా కొడుతుంటే, బౌలర్...

What’s the fun in ‘in time’…

  Inherent in PD engineers to just meet the setup time without violating the hold time 🙂 also ask for some waiver on setup uncertainty but never violate hold 🙂 Metal DRCs can be left out for presentation time let the base get through... Start the gds out while the final sta and PV runs are still on... Submitting in time is an NP problem for Engineers in general and PD engineers in particular... so when the time is 'on time' they wrap it up with bare minimum aspects met and stop the algo... 90% of timing violations converge in the eco stages...the real work starts with the war room or the dungeon... But then what's the fun 'in time'..:the fun is in the tie breaker./.the super over...the Argentina scoring to level and more in the last of the extra time... The real fun is in the last picosecond...

आलसी लोग कारणजन्मा होते हैं।

  आलस्य महिमा आलस्य प्राचीन काल से ही अस्तित्व में है। न्यूज़ीलैंड के प्रसिद्ध वैज्ञानिक बिभा नुप्र सादू ने वर्षों के शोध के बाद बताया कि डायनासोर इसलिए विलुप्त हो गए क्योंकि उन्होंने आलस्य छोड़कर अधिक सक्रिय जीवन अपनाया। सदैव ध्यानमग्न रहने वाले भगवान सदाशिव के तेज में स्थित परम आनंद का ही एक अंश यह आलस्य है, ऐसा प्रसिद्ध प्रवचनकार, तत्त्वचिंतक श्री श्री श्री रापोलु श्रीकांताचार्य ने कहा। योगशास्त्र में “आलस्यासन” का उल्लेख प्राचीन काल से ही मिलता है। जिस प्रकार शवासन में शरीर को पूर्ण विश्राम मिलता है, उसी प्रकार आलस्यासन में शरीर और मन दोनों को संपूर्ण विश्राम प्राप्त होता है। इससे शरीर के सभी अंग अधिक समय तक स्वस्थ और टिकाऊ बने रहते हैं, ऐसा प्रसिद्ध योग विशेषज्ञ श्री रंगा साई ने बताया। विश्व के सभी लोगों को अपने दैनिक जीवन में आलस्य को एक अभिन्न अंग बनाना चाहिए। इससे समाज के कल्याण में अत्यंत बड़ा योगदान मिलेगा। सभी आलसी लोग एक मंच पर आकर आलस्य के लाभों का व्यापक प्रचार करें और लोगों में जागरूकता फैलाएँ, ऐसा संकल्प लेने वाले प्रसिद्ध समाजसेवी आलस्यब्रह्म श्री ज्ञानेश्व...

* आळशी लोक कारणजन्मी असतात

  Here is the Marathi translation, preserving the humorous, satirical tone of the original. आळस आळस हा प्राचीन काळापासून अस्तित्वात आहे. डायनासोरांनी आळस सोडून अधिक सक्रिय जीवन जगायला सुरुवात केली, म्हणूनच ते नामशेष झाले, असा निष्कर्ष न्यूझीलंडमधील प्रसिद्ध शास्त्रज्ञ बिभा नुप्र सादू यांनी अनेक वर्षांच्या संशोधनानंतर मांडला आहे. सदैव ध्यानमग्न असलेल्या भगवान सदाशिवांच्या तेजातील परमानंदाचाच एक अंश म्हणजे हा आळस होय, असे प्रसिद्ध प्रवचनकार, तत्त्वज्ञ श्री श्री श्री रापोलू श्रीकांताचार्य यांनी सांगितले. योगशास्त्रात “आळसासन” याचा उल्लेख प्राचीन काळापासून आहे. जसे शवासनात शरीर पूर्णपणे विश्रांती घेते, तसेच आळसासनात शरीर आणि मन दोन्ही संपूर्ण विश्रांती घेतात. त्यामुळे शरीरातील सर्व अवयव अधिक काळ टिकाऊ राहतात, असे प्रसिद्ध योगतज्ज्ञ श्री रंगा साई यांनी स्पष्ट केले. जगातील प्रत्येकाने आपल्या दैनंदिन जीवनात आळसाचा अविभाज्य भाग म्हणून स्वीकार करावा. त्यामुळे समाजकल्याणाला मोठी चालना मिळेल. सर्व आळशी लोकांनी एकत्र येऊन आळसाचे फायदे व्यापकपणे लोकांपर्यंत पोहोचवावेत आणि जनजागृती करावी, ...

“આળસુઓ કારણજન્મા હોય છે.”

ગુજરાતી અનુવાદ (હાસ્યરસ જાળવીને): આળસ તો પ્રાચીન કાળથી જ અસ્તિત્વમાં છે. ન્યૂઝીલેન્ડના પ્રખ્યાત વૈજ્ઞાનિક બિભા નુપ્ર સાદુ એ લાંબા સંશોધન બાદ જણાવ્યું છે કે ડાયનોસોરો આળસ છોડીને વધુ સક્રિય બની ગયા, એટલે જ તેઓ લુપ્ત થઈ ગયા! સદા ધ્યાનમાં લીન રહેનારા સદાશિવના તેજમાં રહેલા પરમાનંદનો જ એક અંશ આ આળસ છે, એમ પ્રખ્યાત પ્રવચનકાર અને તત્ત્વચિંતક શ્રી શ્રી શ્રી રાપોલુ શ્રીકાંતાચાર્યજી એ જણાવ્યું. યોગશાસ્ત્રમાં “આળસાસન”નો ઉલ્લેખ પ્રાચીન સમયથી જ છે. જેમ શવાસનમાં શરીરને સંપૂર્ણ આરામ મળે છે, તેમ આળસાસનમાં શરીર અને મન બંનેને સંપૂર્ણ વિશ્રામ મળે છે. તેના પરિણામે શરીરના તમામ અંગો વધુ લાંબા સમય સુધી ટકાઉ રહે છે, એમ પ્રખ્યાત યોગ નિષ્ણાત શ્રી રંગ સાઈજી એ સમજાવ્યું. વિશ્વના લોકો પોતાના દૈનિક જીવનમાં આળસને એક અભિન્ન ભાગ બનાવે તો સમાજના કલ્યાણમાં મોટો ફાળો મળશે. તમામ આળસુ લોકો એક મંચ પર આવી આળસના લાભોનો વ્યાપક પ્રચાર કરે અને જનજાગૃતિ લાવે એવો સંકલ્પ પ્રખ્યાત સમાજસેવક બદ્ધકબ્રહ્મ શ્રી જ્ઞાનેશ્વર રેડ્ડી એ આર.ટી.સી. કોલોનીમાં યોજાયેલી સભામાં ઉત્સાહપૂર્વક વ્યક્ત કર્યો. “અરે ઓ… હું એક વાર ઊભો થઈ જાઉં એટલે જ...

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 n...

Daddy's Day Out

 There is so much we learnt from our father being with him, looking at how he worked, with so much dedication to his bank, to his work, honesty, responsibility, how he handled everyday issues...while our mother took care of everything else at home and of the family, a typical day during our Dad's working period is nothing short of a thriller movie...Dad needs to be there at the bank on time as one set of the key keys are with him and they cannot afford the public to be waiting for the bank to open even a few minutes late...that being the setup time to be met, the distance to cover with the traffic still had quite an uncertainty...while the start time of the bank is to be met, the end time hold time is quite long...coming home very late every day, the next day starts slightly late and then there is a heavy push to meet the timing...Eenadu needs to be read fully...and any interesting political event or a good article (there was no dearth of those then) will add to the OCV...one stron...

Relationships are async clock interfaces

  A relation between any two individuals is an asynchronous clock domain interface with two different clocks on either side. Very rarely the interface is synchronous. The power domains, voltages, signoff corners can be different. Each following a different protocol. To make it work still, a suitable synchroniser logic needs to be built as a bridge with sufficient depth. One may be running at high voltage at some point but Level shifters need to be added to get along. One may be down, power gated sometimes and isolation cells may be needed with appropriate controls. Retention helps to maintain the relationship. The interfacing logic still need to be placed closer with max delay constraints and skew and latency requirements so they listen to each other still. The setup has a cushion but hold with a lot of patience need to be closed at cross corners covering the extremes. Temperatures may rise and cold wars may arise but hold needs to be closed to maintain the functionality. It should...

the voltage vocal cords...

 Everyone has a buffer in their vocal cord…if you use a high drive strength and shout, it may drive the signal farther and deeper but it adds lot of xtalk, noise violations, power wastage, needs lot of shielding and can sometimes violate hold which we cannot take back with an apology buffers…always use optimal drive buffers, set high drive buffers as don’t use…for a longer reliability in relationships.. some people have an entire 8 bit octave control bus with DVFS and power gating installed and when they sing, the signals switch simultaneously and melodiously.. normally one should use inverter pairs so the duty cycle distortion is balanced...the inverter pair indicates whenever the voltage rises, we better fall it back to reduce the distortion of the meaning what we want to convey... if one has an odd number of inverters, obviously the lec fails and to make lec pass, more inverters are added which makes it difficult to debug and fix the lec eventually... very low drive buffers do n...

RetirEMigration Limits

 Many people build strong careers and reach very high positions and roles like VP, SVP, Sr Dir and all. They would have started from deep nwell and substrates and built a strong foundation with their talent, skills, capabilities like active, non linear devices. They would have built strong drive strengths that can handle large capacitances, transitions. Over a period of time, they move up the metals, layer by layer, through the competitive congestion, networking on the way with useful xtalk, collaboration with others. They reach to the top layers with strong via pillars. At the top, they draw the required power and current from the bumps and distribute to their orgs and teams. The resistance at the top is lesser and congestion is lesser. They normally then are used to talking more, giving instructions and not much of listening. The top layer widths are more and they can handle more current and the people at top handle lot more pressure. so far so good but the issue comes up when th...

Ugadi Rasi Phala for VLSI folks

  🪐 Silicon Rasi Phalalu 2026 🪐 (Purely fictional… just like our schedules 😄) 🛠️   PD Engineers (Saturn - Adhidevatha) Saturn in own house (Kumbha) 🪐 Lot of work, lot of pressure Results ∝ Hard work Savings good (no time to spend 😅) Income always less than expected Work-life balance: 😂😂 Role: lol | Responsibilities: many Insults: high | Recognition: delayed but good Mercury strong → jugaad solutions, tapeouts will happen 💡 Venus strong → you’ll still somehow enjoy the grind 👉 Remedy: Do some actual runs along with daily runs 🏃‍♂️ 💻   RTL Engineers (Jupiter - Adhidevatha) Jupiter moving to Mesha 🔥 New designs (not just incremental updates) Learn new protocols → great roles 🚀 Jupiter + Rahu till Nov → miss things now, fix later 😬 Income ↑ Expenses ↑ Respect & recognition high Work-life balance: lol 👉 Remedy: Be nice to PD folks… give clean RTL 🙏 🧪   Verification Engineers (Mars - Adhidevatha) ...

Who Am I?

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  There are high chances that you may have forgotten that tomorrow is the day…tomorrow is Monday..:the Monday which ends your long leave and vacation…after returning back to home..:sleeping all day except for lunch and waking up in the evening, if you feel like coming out of coma and don’t know where u r…then it means you have office tomorrow…your leave ends tomorrow…check the calendar and send a test mail to yourself and check the auto message… In case your office mail is not setup on your phone and your laptop password is forgotten and you even forgot which company you work for…check your sms on who sent you the salary the latest…check your personal mail for the latest offer letter that and joining letter…search for your id card…most probably it would have been swallowed by the sofa…check for your company’s address on gmap and keep it ready…check your LinkedIn profile to confirm the company and what ur role is…and what ur skill sets are. Most probably the LinkedIn profile may not...

Murphee ka bhai...

The traffic signal turns red just before u The movie ticket counter says sold out just when u keep your hand in the counter Forget change in the bus and only cash is accepted Spelling mistakes in the important certificates Passport guys ask for more documents only to u Neither get bowling or batting when play cricket  Go back to checkin counter after security is done  Out of 30 vehicles, you will be stopped by the traffic police how many of you faced things like these…may be many of us in a few of these…but there is one person who has the max of these and many more we cannot even imagine... When Vamsi the DFT says 99.99% coverage, there is still that 0.01% that is left out…When even very close to the tapeout PD fellas leave 1-2Weeks as a buffer… even when running 100s of pvt corners in sta, we still leave some uncertainty…even when we quantify what all components constitue the uncertainty, there is still some real uncertainty we add to the uncertainty…there is always one block...

Ear-End Musings for PD fellas

  Dear PD fellas, a) in PD, 1here will be lots of pressure. We handle it normally but dont take stress. keep a sensor out there and the moment it is crossing a stress threshold, reduce the voltage and take it easy.  b) Always enjoy your work. Most of the work will be routine and needed but I am sure all of u like PD and enjoy it. Take a break when it gets overwhelmed. there will be incessant things that keep coming from all the PVT corners. just inform that u will get back or u need time or just take time to respond is all fine. Hold it..hold time is ur best weapon..  c) manage your breaks, off times, as per your timelines and way of work. If any meetings r not convenient, inform ahead.  Health  is priority. Make sure there is an architectural clock gating for all work with enable directly coming from the health. d) always keep a secondary owner for things that you drive. so, help each other out and cover for each other. Like the Gladiators team up in the arena....

Satphilosphy

 What we r seen outside is our abstract view; with pins to connect to, where can be routed and where not. What we r inside is deep, detailed layers with more accurate timing. But eventually the signoff timing, equivalence, lvs should all match Whether it’s a 2ghz or a 200mhz design, they hv their own set of vios to fix. Wr it’s a billionaire or a commoner, they hv their own worries The tapeout date is the day when the tapeout actually happens. Not a day before and not a day after - satyase, since 1999 Any issue that goes off without actually fixing it will come back in the most critical and least expected stage  ~satyase The probability of the release getting postponed and postponed and postponed and falling on the exact date of long planned travel date is just 1ps less than 100%. ~satyase All humans and PD Engineers have certain amount of luck for life. While others utilize it for better things in life, the PD folks use it but by bit for Drc fixes, timing fixes, better weekly...

Audio Video in Ash

 Chash was our college topper. Our college itself had the best rankers and many of them themselves big thopus (for high iq fellas) but everyone was unanimous that Chash is above the higher threshold. he is now a professor at iisc but we always knew and he behaved like one even in the college. Howard landman was brought in as a PD manager when in house it was getting difficult to manage us. Soon we realised pd was just one of the many, many things he is an expert on. At 65+ now he still submits new papers on a variety of topics whose titles I don’t understand. Very recently met two other such friends ; one of them I call stg (tg stands for the great) and they belong to that voltage domain too. Our own Avi fits right in that high threshold category and it is always a pleasure to listen to him talk everything in everything with a deep nwell depth…ash is supposed to represent nothingness but he finds Audio Video in Ash too…happy birthday my friend…have a great year ahead 🙂

ബദ്ധകസ്തർ കാരണജന്മികൾ

  Here is the Malayalam translation of your Telugu text, keeping the same humorous tone and flow: ബദ്ധകസ്തർ കാരണജന്മികൾ December 16, 2024 ബദ്ധകം പുരാതനകാലം മുതൽ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്ന ഒന്നാണ്. ഡൈനോസറുകൾ ബദ്ധകം വിട്ടുകൊടുക്കാതിരുന്നതിനാൽ തന്നെയാണ് ഇല്ലാതായതെന്ന് ന്യൂസിലൻഡിലെ ശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞയായ ബിഭാ നുപ്ര സാധു നിരവധി ഗവേഷണങ്ങൾ നടത്തി പറഞ്ഞു. എപ്പോഴും ധ്യാനത്തിൽ ലയിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന ആ സദാശിവന്റെ തേജസ്സിലെ പരമാനന്ദത്തിന്റെ ഭാഗം തന്നെയാണ് ബദ്ധകം എന്ന് പ്രശസ്ത പ്രഭാഷകനും തത്വചിന്തകനുമായ ശ്രീ ശ്രീ ശ്രീ റാപోలు ശ്രീകാന്താചാര്യർ അഭിപ്രായപ്പെട്ടു. യോഗയിൽ ബദ്ധകാസനം എന്നത് വളരെ പഴക്കമുള്ളതാണ്. ശവാസനത്തിൽ നാം ശരീരം ചലിക്കുന്നില്ലാതെ എങ്ങനെ വിശ്രമിക്കുമോ, അതുപോലെ തന്നെയാണ് ബദ്ധകാസനത്തിൽ മനസും ശരീരവും പൂർണമായി വിശ്രമിക്കുന്നത്. ഇതിലൂടെ അവയവങ്ങൾ കൂടുതൽ കാലം ആരോഗ്യത്തോടെ നിലനിൽക്കും എന്ന് പ്രശസ്ത യോഗ വിദഗ്ധൻ ശ്രീ രംഗ സായി പറഞ്ഞു. ലോകത്തെ ജനങ്ങൾ അവരുടെ ദൈനംദിന ജീവിതത്തിൽ ബദ്ധകത്തെ ഒരു ഭാഗമാക്കണമെന്ന്, അത് സമൂഹത്തിന്റെ പുരോഗതിക്കു വലിയ സഹായമാകുമെന്ന്, എല്ലാ ബദ്ധകസ്തരും ഒരു കൂട്ടം രൂപപ്പെടുത്തി ബദ്ധകത്തിന്റ...

ಬದ್ದಕಸ್ತರು ಕಾರಣಜನ್ಮರು

  Kannada translation of original Telugu blog by ChatGPT. Please excuse if any mistakes ಬದ್ದಕಸ್ತರು ಕಾರಣಜನ್ಮರು December 16, 2024 ಬದ್ದಕ ಎಂಬುದು ಪುರಾತನ ಕಾಲದಿಂದಲೇ ಇದೆ ಎಂದು, ಡೈನೋಸಾರ್‌ಗಳು ಬದ್ದಕವನ್ನು ಬಿಟ್ಟುಬಿಡುವುದರಿಂದಲೇ ಅಳಿದುಹೋದರೆಂದು ನ್ಯೂಜಿಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್‌ನ ಬಿಭಾ ನುಪ್ರ ಸಾಧು ಎಂಬ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಿ ಬಹಳಷ್ಟು ಸಂಶೋಧನೆ ಮಾಡಿ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಸತತ ಧ್ಯಾನದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಆ ಸದಾಶಿವನ ತೇಜಸ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುವ ಪರಮಾನಂದದ ಭಾಗವೇ ಈ ಬದ್ದಕ ಎಂದು ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧ ಪ್ರಭಾಷಕ, ತತ್ವವೇತ್ತ, ಶ್ರೀ ಶ್ರೀ ಶ್ರೀ ರಾಪోలు ಶ್ರೀಕಾಂತಾಚಾರ್ಯರು ತಿಳಿಸಿದರು. ಯೋಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಬದ್ದಕಾಶನ ಎಂಬುದು ಯೋಗಶಾಸ್ತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಹಳ ಹಿಂದಿನಿಂದೇ ಹೇಳಲ್ಪಟ್ಟಿದೆ. ಶವಾಸನದಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಗೆ ದೇಹವನ್ನು ಅಲ್ಲಾಡಿಸದೇ ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿ ಪಡೆಯುತ್ತೇವೋ ಹಾಗೆಯೇ ಬದ್ದಕಾಶನದಲ್ಲೂ ಮನಸ್ಸು–ದೆಹ ಎರಡೂ ವಿಶ್ರಮಿಸುತ್ತವೆ. ಇದರಿಂದ ಅಂಗಾಂಗಗಳು ಹೆಚ್ಚು ದಿನಗಳವರೆಗೆ ಬಲವಾಗಿ ಇರುತ್ತವೆ ಎಂದು ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧ ಯೋಗ ನಿಪುಣರಾದ ಶ್ರೀ ರಂಗಸಾಯಿ ತಿಳಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಪ್ರಪಂಚದ ಜನರು ತಮ್ಮ ದೈನಂದಿನ ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಬದ್ದಕವನ್ನು ಒಂದು ಭಾಗವನ್ನಾಗಿ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡರೆ, ಸಮಾಜದ ಶ್ರೇಯೋಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿಗೆ ಇದು ತುಂಬಾ ಸಹಾಯಕವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಬದ್ದಕಸ್ತರು ಒಟ್ಟಾಗಿ ಒಂದು ಕೂಟವಾಗಿ ಸೇರಿ ಬದ್ದಕದಿಂದ ಇರುವ ಲಾಭಗಳನ್ನು ವ್ಯಾಪಕವಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಸಾರ ಮಾಡಿ ಜನರನ್ನು ಜಾಗೃತರನ್ನಾಗಿ ಮಾಡಬೇಕೆಂದ...