1 Czech Republic Koruna = 2.6449 Argentine Peso

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 0.0714 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 0.1462 United Arab Emirates Dirham

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 1.2692 Salvadoran Colon

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 3.2203 Slovak Koruna

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 0.2049 Singapore Dollar

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 1.4817 Norwegian Krone

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 4.9892 Nicaraguan Cordoba Oro

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 1.4248 Moroccan Dirham

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 176.8934 South Korean Won

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 0.1029 Jordanian Dinar

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 46.8612 Hungarian Forint

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 3.6447 Czech Republic Koruna

1 Japanese Yen = 0.082 Salvadoran Colon

1 Japanese Yen = 0.2082 Slovak Koruna

1 Japanese Yen = 0.0132 Singapore Dollar

1 Japanese Yen = 0.0958 Norwegian Krone

1 Japanese Yen = 0.3225 Nicaraguan Cordoba Oro

1 Japanese Yen = 0.0921 Moroccan Dirham

1 Japanese Yen = 11.4346 South Korean Won

1 Japanese Yen = 0.0067 Jordanian Dinar

1 Japanese Yen = 3.0292 Hungarian Forint

1 Japanese Yen = 0.2356 Czech Republic Koruna

In the book “The World of _____” by Bennett Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K Bealer, there is a photograph of a label from a jar of pharmaceutical-grade crystals. It reads:

“WARNING: MAY BE HARMFUL IF INHALED OR SWALLOWED. HAS CAUSED MUTAGENIC AND REPRODUCTIVE EFFECTS IN LABORATORY ANIMALS. INHALATION CAUSES RAPID HEART RATE, EXCITEMENT, DIZZINESS, PAIN, COLLAPSE, HYPOTENSION, FEVER, SHORTNESS OF BREATH. MAY CAUSE HEADACHE, INSOMNIA, VOMITING, STOMACH PAIN, COLLAPSE AND CONVULSIONS.”

Fill in the blank.

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X is a song written by Y and famously covered by Z. Time Magazine’s Josh Tyrangiel described it thus:

Y murmured the original like a dirge, but except for a single overwrought breath before the music kicks in, Z treated the 7-min. song like a tiny capsule of humanity, using his voice to careen between glory and sadness, beauty and pain, mostly just by repeating the word X. It’s not only Z’s best song — it’s one of the great songs, and because it covers so much emotional ground and is not (yet) a painfully obvious choice, it has become the go-to track whenever a TV show wants to create instant mood. ‘X can be joyous or bittersweet, depending on what part of it you use,’ says Sony ATV’s Kathy Coleman. ‘It’s one of those rare songs that the more it gets used, the more people want to use it.’

Name X, Y and Z.

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Finally, sanity.  Concerned about the level of electronic waste created by discarded phone chargers, the European Commission has told mobile phone manufacturers that they must adopt a standard.  This will hopefully have the additional advantage of reducing blood pressures if we no longer need to rummage in our desk drawers frantically searching for the right charger. 

I wonder whether manufacturers would have voluntarily adopted a standard without external influence.  The choice of how to wire our "wireless" appliances seems to offer so little differentiation, and standards are so freely available that I am surprised that this hasn't happened sooner. 

Unfortunately, there are few parallels in the EDA/manufacturability world.  EDA products derive a significant part of their differentiation from the range and types of data that they can connect to, particularly in the case of enabling information such as library and technology files. 

The good news is that technology file standards are becoming available that could replace what were once proprietary formats, and there is motivation to adopt the standards because our foundry partners (as well as our customers) evidently recognize the value of common formats.  Whether the foundries can agree among themselves on common formats remains to be seen. 

I've been blogging a lot about Assura recently, so I thought I would continue by talking about rule decks. 

Inside Cadence, we maintain a database that shows which foundries support which process for which products.  This means that we can quickly give you an answer if you are considering using a new process or foundry, and you want to know whether Assura is supported.  Your friendly local Cadence physical verification AE has access to this information and should be able to answer your questions about rule deck support. 

Our Assura R&D team is constantly working with the foundries to help update existing rule decks and create new ones.  But with all due respect to our foundry partners, their field support teams are not always aware of the latest efforts on rule deck creation and support. 

Of course, it's important to check the status of Assura support with your foundry.  This has the added benefit to Cadence that it lets them know that you're using Assura.  But please also double-check with your Cadence AE, who can ping me to make sure that you're getting the latest information. 

"The number of watchmen required to watch the watchmen watching the watchmen tends to double every 18 months".  This gem is Alan Moore's law, posted years ago by some wag in response to an Intel article on geek.com.  This has, of course, surfaced because of the recent release of the Watchmen movie.  OK so I admit that I haven't read the book or even seen the movie - and based on my recent experiences of superhero movies (with the exception of the Hellboy movies, starring the very wonderful Ron Perlman) I may not bother. 

But when it comes to the "real" Moore's law - Gordon Moore, that is - I think we have all read the book, seen the movie and got the tattoo.  So I hereby pledge that I will never again begin another datasheet, article or white paper with words such as, "With design features getting smaller and smaller...".  With all respect to Dr. Moore, there are plenty of other interesting and less-explored angles on the manifold complexities of electronic design. 

Although we can't take Moore's law for granted, I think we can take it as read. 

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What is the meaning of this error?

I used already two ports (PORT1 and PORT2 for input and output, respectively.

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Also when I apply the PSP analysis for S-parameter the value of maximum S21 value (4.75 dB) is much lower than the maximum power gain (17.6 dB).

while the same circuit is designed using  ADS program the two values are approximately the same around (17.1 dB).

Once while eating dinner in Montreal, our friendly, intoxicated waitress plopped herself in my lap and proceeded to tell us about how obsessed she was with the CD that was playing - singing out the lyrics at an ungodly volume and flinging her arms about. Wow, I thought to myself, people who listen to Morcheeba sure seem to have a lot of fun, and promised to check them out.

Several CDs later, they are firmly one of my favorites. And their trip hop meditation, 2003’s Charango remains one of my most played CDs.

Morcheeba (Mor = more, Cheeba = pot) are brothers Ross and Paul Godfrey with singer Skye Edwards (who has since been replaced). Part trance, part ambience, Charango is full of smooth, snogworthy jams. And just as you surrender to its seductive groove, Slick Rick shows up with a rap called “Women Lose Weight”.

Lamenting his wife putting on weight after having kids and stalled by his mistress who wants a clean break before she shacks up with him, he decides the easiest way out of it all is to kill the spouse. Considering different ways to do the deed, he finally rams his car into her Chevy over a long lunch break one fine day. It is an unexpected, stunning, tongue-in-cheek social commentary that makes it a CD you won’t forget easily.

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Literate Indians should be familiar with Ashis Nandy’s remark: “Cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the English.“ A Trinidadian Indian by the name of Chuck Ramkissoon, in Joseph O’Neill’s superbly inflected novel “Netherland”, is also fond of making bold pronouncements on the behalf of the game he wants to introduce to the U.S. “I’m saying that people, all people, Americans, whoever, are at their most civilized when they’re playing cricket. What’s the first thing that happens when Pakistan and India make peace? They play a cricket match…”

It’s now my turn to be bold: “Netherland” is more of an Indian novel than the recent, much feted, Indian fiction. This is not only because O’Neill’s novel feeds our national obsession with the game. Nor even its exquisite description of what transpires on the playing field: “…. where the white-clad ring of infielders, swanning figures on the vast oval, again and again converge in unison toward the batsman and again and again scatter back to their starting points, a repetition of pulmonary rhythm, as if the field breathed through its luminous visitors.” No. My pronouncement is based on the fact that the Indian characters in the book are highly individualized and yet fully global in their identity. “Netherland” is not a sociological-historical epic thesis, nor is it a shallow, cynical report on injustice in the hinterland. Rich in observation, reporting as much on the interior life as on the life outside, it is a captivating literary achievement. A masterpiece.

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I loved Nina Paley’s brilliant animated film Sita Sings the Blues. If you’re reading this, stop right now—and watch the film here.

Paley has set the story of the Ramayana to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. The epic tale is interwoven with Paley’s account of her husband’s move to India from where he dumps her by e-mail. The Ramayana is presented with the tagline: “The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.”

All of this should make us curious. But there are other reasons for admiring this film:

The film returns us to the message that is made clear by every village-performance of the Ramlila: the epics are for everyone. Also, there is no authoritative narration of an epic. This film is aided by three shadow puppets who, drawing upon memory and unabashedly incomplete knowledge, boldly go where only pundits and philosophers have gone before. The result is a rendition of the epic that is gloriously a part of the everyday.

This idea is taken even further. Paley says that the work came from a shared culture, and it is to a shared culture that it must return: she has put the film on Creative Commons—viewers are invited to distribute, copy, remix the film.

Of course, such art drives the purists and fundamentalists crazy. On the Channel 13 website, “Durgadevi” and “Shridhar” rant about the evil done to Hinduism. It is as if Paley had lit her tail (tale!) and set our houses on fire!

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