Amita's Blog

As human beings, we all want to be happy. We search for happiness through various means. It would not be wrong to say that searching for happiness is our innate nature. Being happy is a state of the mind and a fundamental aspect of life. If we contemplate, we would realize that all our actions are aimed at achieving something in life so ourselves or others around us can be happy. We want to avoid anything unpleasant or a situation that might bring up unhappiness. Well, much has been written on dealing with sorrows, pain, and grief, but do we know how we should confront happiness!!! You did very well in the exams and you are happy...! Then what! Do you know how long will that happiness be retained. We are all overjoyed at achieving any personal ambition or desire. But are we able to retain that happiness forever!!! If happiness had been a secret potion, everyone would have tried to treasure it, store it somewhere, so that it did not get empty or we could use it some other...

Today, I feel a sense of fulfillment to have setup and booted a hardware board. It means a lot to me, though several other people are involved in various stages of developing embedded systems. The company for which I work designs embedded system solutions that can be used for various purposes such as for industrial, networking or for the automotive domain. As a technical writing professional, my job is to describe how to use a product (which might be a device, software, or a set of hardware blocks) in a simple and non-technical manner. It also involves using the steps described in the manual to check whether we can accomplish the documented task. Most of the documents we create are meant to be used by technical people who might be using our device in their product. Semiconductors are part of every electronic appliance, industrial sensors, automotive electronics, and their scope of applications is increasing everyday. A reference design board, in the context used here, is a gener...