Alex Titriku was my manager for two years at TI, but in my last year I worked under Mark Weaver. This was as I made the jump from Design Verification to Digital design. I think if I had not thought about trying analog design at the end of my time at TI I would have stayed, when filling out my internship feedback I mentioned my interest in analog. Then I missed an email for a digital design return offer, by the time I became concerned about not hearing back TI HR informed me the closest they had was analog design, and they sent me an offer.
At the time I chose not to return, I was pursuing a degree in Computer Architecture which was far from digital design, not to mention a golf from analog design. I figured it would be better to work on research than analog for my career.
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A colleague sent me a link. Hours later, I was still deep in a rabbit hole of assembly, auto-vectorization, and benchmarking GCC vs. Clang. One of my long time colleagues Brendan sent me a link that you can view HERE. Naturally, I opened it as soon as ... Read More
