Hooray! I have work! I am in completely over my head! :-P I am finally on a project, with one other engineer and a tech - which means I actually have to get some stuff done (which is good of course, but a little scary too). So the beginning of last week went like this:

other engineer - "So, have you done any VHDL before?"
me - "nope"
other engineer - "Well, I guess this will be a good learning experience then. Here's the code for another project which we'll be borrowing, spend a little time getting familiar with it and then you'll be making some modifications."
me - "ok" (inside - yikes!)

So I've got a good 60+ pages of VHDL code here and I've spent the last TWO WEEKS figuring out what's going on, enough to write about 10 lines of code :-P But hey, I think those 10 lines will actually work, which is something right? Actually I'm pretty proud of myself for figuring out as much as I have. The other engineer I'm working with is pretty great, easy going and just takes my competence to figure things out for granted - but always willing to answer questions and explain in more depth when I ask. Really makes me feel more confident and makes all this more fun.

I'd love to explain all about the project, but I don't think I'm supposed to yet (not classified, just proprietary - plus I don't really know much past my little piece of the puzzle), suffice it to say that it explodes ;-) - I hope I get to go to some of the tests!