It wasn’t long ago that I was thinking that I’d like more to do at work. Just idle thoughts, thinking that with more to do I’d be less likely to get distracted. Probably more of an excuse to myself for every time that I found myself staring out the window thinking about photography. Needless to say I didn’t tell anyone about this un-natural urge to get more work.
Strangely though, by some mystical act of karma, it was only about a week later that I got more work to do, then more, then even more…
Now I’m in charge of writing the documentation, writing the software, and writing the hardware for the current project I’m on. If the idea of writing hardware confuses you then just be glad that I didn’t drop the acronym VHDL into the post! Then you would probably have to nod and smile, pretending that those letters actually mean something to you. You may perhaps start wondering why technical professions use acronyms so much and whether you can think so something amusing that VHDL might mean. It’s entirely possible that you’d have got as far as ‘Very Dangerous’ when you quickly tune back into my words to find that AHDL and RAM have also cropped up. At this point you will probably find it all too much, make some vauge excuse about a dog and leave. Quickly.
Believe me I’ve seen it happen, and that’s why I’m always a bit vauge about my job when someone asks me what I do for a living.
…It’s not that I’m complaining about having more work, in fact getting extra responsibility was one of the prominent reasons for getting a new job! That and finding a job where I actually understand what’s going on and don’t have to ask for help every day.
It’s just come as a bit of a shock!
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Vermin Hyper Death Liability. Then AHDL covers the wider area of the liability – Animal Hyper Death Liability. It’s a serious problem in the hardware world. Just imagine, you’re using your mouse then BAM! Hyper Death! Now we all need to know how liable this is to happen… that’s where Rob comes into play. RAM – Rob, Animal Master.
Hope that helps you explain Rob.
Wow, I was hoping someone would think of something more interesting for VHDL etc. to mean…
Come to think of it I don’t really know what it does stand for, so Vermin Hyper Death Liability will do nicely!! 🙂
FYI … HDL (Hardware Description Language) based design has established itself as the modern approach to design of digital systems, with VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) and Verilog HDL being the two dominant HDLs. Just thought that this may help those who don’t know much about VHDL… but I think with new turns in techonolgy – its a beneficial language to know… way to go Rob.
It’s also very hard to pirate for the record.
Oh, and VHSIC stands for Very High Speed Intergrated Circuit.
So the full meaning of VHDL is Bery High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language.
What. a. mouthful.
Also FYI AHDL stands for Altera Hardware Description Language, and is a variation of VHDL specific to Altera devices. (Altera is a company that makes the chips that can be programmed by these languages… FPGA’s, damn another acronym!!!)
I’m not quite sure what you mean by hard to pirate, if you mean getting code out of core’s then yes it can be encrypted so it can’t be read back out again. If you mean the programs to compile and layout the VHDL into gates… well you just have to know where to look.
Just in case you thought I didn’t know my stuff.
…and for those who hadn’t caught on, FYI stands for “For Your Information”!
(pretends to look clever)
I dunno what books you all have been reading… *rolls eyes*