so the day finally came. the dreaded ECO from hell was upon me, as i decided that today would be the day that i would tackle it. the problem was, i ran into a fatal issue, which was that i couldn't run formal verification between the two netlists. for some insane reason, the latency of the MC (module compiler) generated netlist changed, so there was no way to compare the two modified pieces of code. so i guess we're going to take a risk and run my changes against the C-model and go without using formal verification at all. *crossed fingers*
i really got into it, though. i could tell was stressed today because i requested a short lunch (45 minutes only!) with C and D. i took a lot of quick breaks, and what's more, i only looked at espn.com twice the entire day! now THAT means something. :) to give up an update, i'm pretty much done with a first draft of the gate changes. it turned out to be a minor ECO in terms of number of gates, but finding which gates to modify was the tough part, as this was an MC-generated netlist. yeah.
i had this crazy dream on saturday night. basically, we found this beached whale (or large fish or something), and we cut it open, and there were these three entities living inside of the fat. they got out, and they turned out to be these deformed women (one of them had toes on her waist, ick). but then, they got out and stood up, and they transformed into hot oakland athletics cheerleaders! (do they even have cheerleaders on baseball teams?) anyways, i woke up, and i was like, "huh?"
one cool thing i really liked about mike and christi's house was that all the rooms were painted different colors. for example, there was one room that was a light lavender. now, if you told me that earlier, i would have thought that it would be kind of girly or something, but it actually turned out quite well. i'm a pretty conservative kind of guy as far as white walls vs. colored walls are concerned, but now that i've seen a couple of houses with painted walls, i'd definitely consider painting rooms when i finally buy a house.
at borders on saturday night, i saw a wedding magazine with jordana brewster on the cover. she's really pretty! i had seen her movie trailers before, (i forget which movies) and never thought much of her, but yeah, she looked downright beautiful. hm. maybe i should check out some of her movies from now on.
ok, i'm out of steam. my brain's a little fried right now, and i'll try to write more tomorrow. ciao!
friday, some of us met up at cafe baklava on castro street, this turkish/mediterranean place. i never know what to order, or rather, i always order the wrong thing. i should just get the kabobs. instead, i got this chicken stew, which was decent, but not what i expected. afterwards, we met up with some other friends at tap ex.
saturday, we had lunch at king noodle. i'm not fond of that place anymore; the food crappy (low quality beef and wontons), although i do like their hot sauce. afterwards, i went back home and took a nap. it was damn hot! i heard it hit the 90's inland. (or maybe that was sunday, i'm not sure.) for dinner, we went to vung tau, this vietnamese place in milpitas. paul recommended the combo #1, and it was pretty tasty. afterwards, we hung out at borders books for a while.
sunday, i met up with john and grace at dynasty. it was CRAZY there. they set up chairs for all the people who were waiting, and i was told that the wait for the three of us was an hour and 30 minutes. so we bailed and went to wahoo's fish tacos instead. after that, i went home and watched the u.s. open. i don't usually watch golf, and in fact, it put me to sleep for a while. but i did wake up to watch tiger woods and jim furyk lose by a stroke to angel cabrera. pretty exciting stuff.
for dinner, we went over to mikeT's new house. he and christi have very nice digs, i must say. there was way too much food, although it was tasty. afterwards, we watched this episode of a sci-fi channel miniseries called _the lost room_. i though it was very interesting and engrossing, and although i'll probably never watch the final two episodes. cool plot, though, and i was thoroughly enjoying it.
and that was the end to my weekend. it was too short, of course, as always.