An exhausting day. Lab 1 for VLSI was released today. Chris and I worked much of the afternoon away, and nearly, but not quite, finished the homework for Microelectronic Circuits Lab. I came home in the evening and set up Cadence for VLSI, and successfully made it work in 8-bit color. Installed a new build of VMWare (5592). I’ve got a lot of things to work on this long weekend.

Attended the TA meeting in the early afternoon. Continued working on Microelectronic Circuits Lab homework. Engineering Economics was incredibly boring. Programmed interest rate routines into my calculator. Taught recitation today, and it went quite well, covering introductory MATLAB topics such as scripts, functions, and arrays.

Met with Chris to check over the VLSI homework before turning it in at the College of Computing, room 360. I think I’ve successfully knocked out problem 1 for Microelectronic Circuits Lab. Progress, at last! Started working on morse code for my next FCC Technician Plus licensing test using xcwcp, a Linux Morse code training program.

Wrestled with Microelectronic Circuits Lab homework for most of the afternoon with Chris, and finished the VLSI homework. Fixed a quoting bug in the school database software. Kevin offered me a no-frills job offer for CS1371, Computing for Engineers. It certainly would be nice to teach a new class for a change, but I’m still undecided as to whether I should accept the offer. I have marketable job skills, apparently.

Set up process accounting on freya. Adam’s parents took Adam and I out to lunch at Willy’s. Met with my colleagues at the College of Computing to work on our compilers project. Finished most of the lexer except for the string parsing, and EOF handling.

Briefly read the articles for ECE4000, and finished the writing assignment soon after. Adam and I spent much of the evening configuring our new Debian Linux file server, freya. I set up Logical Volume Management (LVM) across the multiple IDE drives, as well as Samba, and my Quantum SCSI hard disk as my home directory. Also went to Home Depot to purchase cable ties and split flex tubing to clean up the cabling around my computer.

Received access to the College of Computing computer clusters. Went to visit the VLSI professor with questions about our upcoming homework. Had lunch with David at the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house. Went to visit the new Technology Square at Georgia Tech on Spring St. Our first lecture for Microelectronic Circuits was today.

Georgia Tech Career Services has a list of average reported starting salaries by degree. Used gnupg.sl to get PGP keys to work with slrn. Got my compilers group worked out - I’ll be teaming up with Ben and Sanjay. Set up a CVS repository. Finished the ECE3042 Lab and worked with Chris on ECE3060 afterwards.

Went to visit the VLSI professor in the morning to talk about nMOS transistors, and got a head start on the VLSI homework, which I spent most of the afternoon working on. I also found a neat Karnaugh map minimization tool.

The first lab in Microelectronic Circuits Lab on BJTs. I didn’t finish within the three alloted hours, but the lab is a lot less stressful now that I have an entire week to do each experiment. Had a short chat with Maryam on coursework and such. Compilers was great. I think I’m going to get a lot out of that class, even if I’m not a senior Computer Science major. The night was spent hacking away at ML code with the help of Stevie and creating a simple Binary Search Tree with standard input I/O capabilities.