Welcoming Sohcan to Intel

[Mday]

omg congrats sohcan...

 

[borealiss]

Originally posted by: jliechty
Congrats, Sohcan.

Originally posted by: Adul
congrats sohcan! So how many Intel employees do we have now?

There's Wingznut, PM, and (now) Sohcan, and I think I'm forgetting one or two. So we probably have around 4 or 5, unless there are a bunch more in hiding.

yes, there are quite a few intel employees i imagine that lurk. i know a few personally that have hardly ever posted. anandtech forums are extremely popular with some tech companies like ibm, amd, and intel. just a lot of lurkers.

Originally posted by: SuperTool
...Funny how I mostly studied logic design and architecture in college, but ended up doing circuit design, and loving it. I think you will too.
It's much more concrete than abstract. You can almost touch the circuits and feel electrons flowing, supply voltage drooping, latches glitching, if you have a wild enough imagination
Anyways, congrats on a new position. I am back to writing my SPICE deck. Something you'll be doing a lot of, I assume

really? i always had the exact opposite opinion. all those different approximation models for mosfets and bjt's made my head spin. give me some discrete logic and a datapath any day. i hate analog.

 

[Schadenfroh]

excellent, our mole is finally in place.

 

[BruceLee]

For the experts out there , how much logic is needed in something like that??? I am an EE/CE major, but lately I've been really considering doing more logic kinda stuff (philosophically speaking). I was wondering how much taking logic like that would help me if I decided to try and get a job like this?? I am gonna take Digital Logic next semester, but lately I have been really into Philosophy. It seems like no matter how good I do in Math, I just feel so uneducated when I see what's with Philosophy (Man, I love Philosophy of Science). Anyways, enough with the personal jargon, would things like modern logic or symbolic logic help me immensly??? I think I am gonna take those classes anyways, just because I'm pretty interested in actually understanding Godels stuff. I would just really like it if I could actually use things like that with computers. Forgive my n00bness, but I haven't taken any upper level Engineering classes yet. Thanks for any responses.

 

[Sohcan]

Originally posted by: BruceLee
For the experts out there , how much logic is needed in something like that??? I am an EE/CE major, but lately I've been really considering doing more logic kinda stuff (philosophically speaking). I was wondering how much taking logic like that would help me if I decided to try and get a job like this??...

First-order and propositional logic are very useful for artificial intelligence, but aside from boolean logic other logic systems don't find their way into CMOS design. You'll get all the boolean logic you'll need in your first digital logic class.

 

[BruceLee]

Originally posted by: Sohcan

Originally posted by: BruceLee
For the experts out there , how much logic is needed in something like that??? I am an EE/CE major, but lately I've been really considering doing more logic kinda stuff (philosophically speaking). I was wondering how much taking logic like that would help me if I decided to try and get a job like this??...

First-order and propositional logic are very useful for artificial intelligence, but aside from boolean logic other logic systems don't find their way into CMOS design. You'll get all the boolean logic you'll need in your first digital logic class.

Alright, that is pretty much what I was thinking. I actually have been doing a bit of AI discussion and debate lately. That is some really interesting stuff that I would like to possibly one day explore. I had a feeling though that the Digital Logic kinda stuff would be enough. We'll see, got some things to think about though. Ohh and congrats on the job.

 

[SuperTool]

It's kind of getting to the point where circuit design is dictating architecture as much as architecture is dictating circuit design. Wires are just getting to be killer. You can't just write RTL blindly now and expect it to be implementable. So circuit designers have to communicate closely with both logic designers and architects to some degree. Basically, you need to tell the logic designer and architect what you can and cannot build before they write RTL for it. So any additional logic design you learn isn't going to hurt you, just so you and the logic designer are speaking the same language. Also, you need to take some more advanced digital logic design courses that cover things like glitches, testing, etc.