Poor BY Choice ?

I had this interesting conversation with my colleague at office yesterday...

Several thoughts within me were awakened and his words kept haunting me while I was driving back on my bicycle to home....

We were discussing about developed & developing nations and the state of India in particular. I am a die-hard optimist and I always believe that we all need to sacrifice and provide self-less service to the nation in which we were born.

All the developed nations are "developed" only because of such selfless sacrifice & hardwork by its citizens for several generations. Today's generation in such developed nations are reaping benefits of its predecessors & are following a culture set by them & continue to grow further.

India too will join the bandwagon of such developed nations soon, I have no doubts in that !

But, many of us want it NOW !, is it practical ? or is it even possible ? ...Possible. May be, but might not be practical to think of drastic & dramatic changes within few days !

Its requires relentless service, community building, and of course "educating" the masses which will alone empower every citizen in further strengthening the nation and making it more powerful.

This process will take time & will happen only if we all take a resolve to contribute back to the community & offer services to share knowledge which we possess, in whichever area.

All this might sound cliched, but this is the way to strengthen the community & build stronger nations.

I know & many do believe that poverty is the number 1 problem in our country, India. But I defer & firmly believe its education which is the topmost issue. If we have an educated population, poverty & population problems will also get tackled.

This was the exact remark I made to my colleague in the conversation which I mentioned at the beginning of this blog.....I immediately got back reply & my colleague said, "I dont think India is poor, its the individuals / citizens of the country who choose to be poor !"

I did not have an immediate reply for the above statement. I thought, "hmmm...isnt it true ! I know that there lacks opportunities, there lacks funding, there lacks the infrastructure...But...."

I am still pondering over this , apart from whatever I mentioned above, on the service front, on giving back to the society, isnt it finally dependent on all the individual citizens of the nation who "should" take a resolve to arise , become powerful, to work hard and eradicate poverty....?

May be, it then boils down to the society we build, the aim/goal each one has "for its nation" too !,are we all missing such a goal ? Are we too lazy to fight poverty and arise ? Are we lacking the strength and do not want to work hard to join the league of "developed nations"

I do not have answers yet...But a nice thought to ponder over....

Why Gates ?

Even though I have been working in the VLSI / System field and in the verification domain for almost 4 years now, I have very little exposure to the Gate level simulations...
I did get a chance to work on it in one of my previous project, but wasnt able to work on it full-fledged due to various other activities before Paul took over it, all I got to do was to setup the environment in that project.
I also mistily remember myself involved in another project in which we did a gate sim just to verify that the reset sequence was working fine and the DUT [Design Under Test] did come out of reset properly...It was Jaiso who did most of the work as we looked at awe in those times.
I have had lot of discussions over this topic with my colleagues, but the result / outcome it was that,....I started dreading about Gate sims ..;) ...
I have always thought about the ROI of Gate sims, considering the effort it needs to set-up and more importantly, when all hell breaks loose and the DUT fails for a test, it is night-marish to dig out that bug hidden IN...
There are many modules in my current project for which gate sims have been proposed, but there have been long debates over the benefits of it too...
I was discussing this over the lunch today with Muruli, my friend and colleague at work,...
This is what I have to say over Gate sims...
>> Will your design really work after all the zillion functional simes once it has got -off a synthesis tool and still work "as-intended" ?, Will it meet the Specs after the Placement & Routing process ? ...Answer will be provided by Gate Sims
>>Designer has carefully placed those "false-paths", "multi-cycle-paths" ;) in the design, which means the signals need to travel that extra mile before it makes it home, Can the signal make it on-time as put down in the specs ?--- Ask Gate sims results ..
>>want to ensure DUT comes out of reset, the boot up sequence is allz-well, then use Gate sims
>>But why not STA ?, has many disfavours over GLS,STA works well for Sync designs only & ...???..

I would want to still understand the advantages it offers and why the GLS doesnt feature in the design cycle anymore !!? Does the advantages it offers outdo its disadvantages ?
Will update as I learn more on this....

Maiden :-)

After lot of mentation & cerebration, I concluded it should embrace Techincal, Life's teachings, My perspective/views, Questions.....Well, thats what My blog intends to do.Though not very new to web-logging, this is my first one on blogger.! Hope I do re-count / meditate on various matters as I reach various destinations , mileposts in this mystery-filled journey that I have begun on this planet Earth !
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