DSP yes DSP no

Actually I would had preferred starting with APOGEE 2008 or Speech Controlled Wheel Chair, thoose two are my favoutrite. But they'll need some visual effects, and right now I am in my office and I don't have them.
So lets move on to this one...
DSP yes was till third year, rather till my placements started in the seventh semester. I was really interested in DSP, Communication Systems and related stuff. Actually I still am. But at that point of time, I wanted to make my career in DSP. I feel really bad to admit, but the main reason for DSP yes was that I felt microelectronics is out of my reach. So, at that time, I decided not to step in microelectronics. The second best option was DSP and Communication. Moreover, my profile also suits pretty well for this field. It includes my APOGEE projects - Free Space Optics ,Specch Controlled Wheel Chair; my formal projects - Advanced Experiments in Telecom Networks, Reconfigurable Architecture for Turbo Encoders for Software Defined Radio; and my electives - Mobile Telecommunication Networks, Telecom Switching Systems and Networks, Digital Signal Processing, Digital Communication. With all this, it seems I am deeply interested in DSP and Communications, which is obviously true.
But I still thought of VLSI, particularly Analog. It feels more electrical than DSP/Communication which has signals, statistics, algorithms.
Then came Placements. The best thing they did to me was helped me believe that I can, I can get into VLSI. The first big relief came with nVidia :), no I was not hired, but I was among the six shortlisted for interview. That time I realised that Digital VLSI is definitely not that difficult. The end was even better, Cosmic Circuits Pvt. Ltd. selected me :) It works in Analog VLSI, we'll talk about in detail some other time.
But this was really the turning point, and boy, I am enjoying this DSP no world :)
Rishi Mathur
Design Engineer
Cosmic Circuits Pvt. Ltd.

Flashback... the one I missed

I really feel sorry for the injustice I did to the HITS and MISSES I had in my third and final year. They are numorous, and that is why I didn't get time to post.
Today, I am slightly free, but could not get anything to write on, so now I have decided... next few posts will be the flashback, things which I missed out.
Sneak Preview: APOGEE 2008, Speech Controlled Wheel Chair, DSP yes DSP no, Welcome to VLSI, Tips and tricks for placements, What is instrumentation?,...
The order is not decided, and some other stuff might be there in between.

Bengaluru

So, now with the new status, as happens with all the other engineers, I am too in Bengaluru. This is the place even Mr. Obama is a little afraid off :D

Well well, it has been three weeks here. And I am really liking the place. I guess one reason that strengthens this liking is definitely that I dont actually frequently go to the inner parts of the city. People say that traffic there is total disaster. I am living and working outside the outer ring road, so life's good :)

The best thing about Bengaluru.. definitely its weather. That is the prime reason it is the silicon valley and IT hub of India.
And the other things which I like are : better public transport (as compared to delhi). But till now, I havnt encountered such a situation, even in peak rush hours, that you donot find any place in any of the buses. Yeah, a few of them are really crowded, but you'll atleast have an option to pay more and travel in a volve :).

Anyway, it has only been three weeks, I guess it will take me some more time to experience the real bengaluru.

Here is a list of places I have been to in these past three week:
Bengaluru International Airport
AECS Layout ( in Kundalahalli)
Marathahalli
Cosmos Mall at ITPL road
BTM Layout
Murgesh Palya
Hotel Leela Palace
Koramangla
The Forum Mall
Total Mall
LifeStyle
Garuda Mall
ChurchStreet (Java City and a not so impressive Empire restaurent)
Shopper's Stop near Jayadeva
Barbeque Nation, IndiraNagar

This is primarily east, central and south bengaluru... let see when do I see the other parts. Anyway, I guess this is a pretty good start :D

Status Update

Again, its been a long long time, as always. And yeah, few things did happen in this long long time. I am now an Engineer (provisional :P, not yet received the degree, just the provisionla certificate) Anyway, people do trust that to, so I guess for all the practical purposes, I am a Bachelor of Engineering (honours) in Electronics and Instrumentation.

Super Human - Homo Sapiens 2.0

The following thoughts come to my mind due to 'Pharyngytes' ( must be misspelled here, from which I am suffering now. A throat infection. And because of that, I had fever and bodyache also. And now a days, as one of my friends is doing MBBS, each time a health issue comes up, I discuss it with my friend and try to understand it better. But yeah, this practice, I have started lately only, so, don't have much knowledge yet. And yes, this is the perfect time, as I don't have perfect knowledge, so I can put in my curiosity in my blog :) I had read this some years back, in Gen B ( read general biology, my course in first semester in bits) that these like fever, swelling etc, are body's reaction to some foreign activities. By this, our body tries to kill the intruders ( or maybe its just an alarm in some cases). And yes, we take them as symptoms of some abnormality and try to cure by killing the intruders, generally by correct medicines. Now, what I am wondering is, biological creatures do evolve.. and there are a few diseases which almost all the human suffer atleast once in their lives (in general), say throat infection, or common cold ( or is it just a symptom :O), viral fever (infection). And our body does react to it (fever, body-ache etc). So our body knows that such bad boys ( viruses, bacteria do exists). I reacts in a general way to them all, say increasing the body temperature, or swelling of throat, or so on. Now, after repeated attacks, our body should be able to identify the intruders and also the perfect way to destroy them ( this may require some iterations ( intelligent or plain hit and trials, as per the adaptation theoery says)). So, then, our DNA must be reprogrammed ( read evolution/adaptation) to handle these viruses more efficiently. And the ultimate state will be when as soon as the body is attacked, quickly (maybe within hours), or body is able to destroy them completely and we are back to normal. So this way, these common ailments should just vanish. And hey, it is definitely possible, we all know ( i hope so), that there was a time that mosquitoes were killed using DDT, but after repeated use, they became resistant to it. So, I guess we human should also become resistant to these repeated attacks of viruses. Fine, maybe the DDT used each time was excatly same, and the viruses causing common cold vary a little in different attacks. So, maybe we take more time to adapt... but how much.. maybe a few hundred generations, that might mean some ten thousand years, or maybe some hundred thousand or a million year... But with my limited knowledge, I do believe that we will evolve to super humans, and the next version, Homo Sapiens 2.0 wil be free of these bugs..err... biological ailments.. :P (yeah I am an engineering guy :P) So, hey people in the development team, just improve the DNA code a little bit more, and we are surely going to be better. PS : Well, it might take some time to settle down some bigger bugs , but I guess they can also be handled.

And again.. long time.. no see.. Anyway, some random pics from E:\My Pictures\Kinda technical\Instru forum\motors

Some from E:\My Pictures\Kinda technical\Instru forum

These are random pics, and no details willl be provided.

Foggy pilani

So, here's a real post.. :P
Well yeah, this one's also a shortcut as such.. :D
Anyways... you'll enjoy...:)

CLACK... i mean.. CLOCK TOWER

That's the Art n Dee structure for Oasis 2008

And a not-so-random tree in C-lawns

Krishna Marg. By the way, all these pictures were clicked by yours truely, on 10th of December 2008, between 0720hrs and 0740 hrs.

The road opposite clock tower, between C lawns and D lawns.

And it is gone...

Another shot, same place.

And this is Bhagirath Marg

Brave girl, and a brave lady...

Happy New Year

Oh, finally.. my post :) I sue 2008 for emotional distress, mental trauma, and character assassination; and above that all, for freezing my fingers every time I typed something in this text box under New post. Yeah, I am not joking, this really happened. And I was threatened that if I let this secret out, something really really weird will happen to fourth finger of my left foot. But finally the jinx IS OVER. :) And, yes my sweet lord, now I'll be writing many more posts :) My new year gift to me :)