I got a lot of work done today, but I didn’t complete my list because I discovered a pretty big screw-up that our designer had done on one two! of our previous chip revisions. It is good that I found this because I’ll be sending out the most recent version in a few weeks, and I’d rather not have the same mistake in the new revision of the silicon. Still, it took me a lot of the day to fix the mistake, and I didn’t quite finish. I’ll finish tomorrow morning.
More good news, by fixing this chip, it is now “metal option” compatible with its sister chip, where before, it was not. If both chips go into production, we’ll save a bundle on mask costs thanks to my efforts today. That always makes for a good day!
The evening was spent going from classroom to classroom at my son’s school – it was back to school night! Jeffrey has fantastic teachers this year (thanks to Barbara’s inside connection with the teacher who does the schedules). I was really impressed with every teacher, especially his ceramics teacher (who is going to teach him how a real business works)! And because it matters to Jeffrey that he has good teachers, I expect that his GPA will skyrocket this year. It’s going to be a good year for him.