Let's hurry up already, there's waiting to do!

Continuation of the previous log...
10:30am - Went home
11:00am - Called Dunia
11:30am - Sleep
3:00pm - Woke up hungry, got taco bell, went back to sleep
10:00pm - Woke up, went to the lab
12:40am - Calculating Wiring Efficiencies Complete
5:20am - Having no luck making any progress on testing/simulations
7:30am - Gave up, went to the Windows lab to try to create the EBG
12:00pm - Take a break to call Dunia, get lunch, and take a nap
3:00pm - Back in the lab
4:00pm - EBG layout completed
7:35pm - Routing Layout Optimized as much as I'm going to optimize it; H-Structure Clock correctly set up.

I started this entry right after I asked my calculator to find the width of my top layer wires via an iterative equation. I'm still waiting on it to finish (it's been about 15 minutes).

This project is almost over. The routing involved manually connecting 103 pins together in 98 different nets via 5 layers of metal, which took about 15 or 16 hours altogether. The EBG involved basically guessing at different power-plane structures until it worked out to the right electric bandgap for isolation of the chips in the package, overall it took about 6 hours. I've wasted a lot of time trying to figure out what I need to do, and a lot of time trying to do things that haven't worked, all of which amounts to the remaining 9 hours I've been in the lab(s) this weekend. I have to figure out how to do several types of Simulations, how to calculate and simulate the Power Distribution parameters, and how to perform a Thermal Analysis of the final module. After that, all I have to do is write a conclusion and I'll be done!

I'm going to stay in the lab tonight until it's time to pick up Nate and Preston at the airport, then I'm going to work on German homework, Thermodynamics homework, and Optics homework. I plan to be in bed around 1am.

I'm going to go to the teacher/TA tomorrow and figure out how to finish this project, then complete the project and presentation tomorrow night. I'll complete the rest of my homeworks in all classes on Tuesday, and I'll write the final report for my senior design project on Wednesday. The rest of the week will be spent studying hardcore for my exams and taking much, much better care of myself.

It is so unhealthy to do projects this way. Two all-nighters in a row, sleeping through the day, eating fast food, not getting any sun, spending all day working with hardly any downtime... It's just a bad plan. I feel like all my reserves are depleted right now, which is made more evident by my current tendency to babble on and on about junk that gets dramatically worse whenever I'm this tired.


Almost free!