Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee

摘要

In the early 1990s, I was the product-engineering manager for j a small semiconductor company making clock-generator ICs. j Our group was responsible for checking out the first silicon on j new designs to make sure they functioned and performed cor- j rectly. We introduced a new version that had only some minor j changes on an established and well-characterized design, so I j left the initial checkout in the capable hands of our summer intern.