Credence Systems Corp'

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Credence Systems Corp.
Matt 1st Internship Spring-Summer, 2007
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Overview

• Benefits
• Pre/Post Internship
• SETI group
• Projects
• Mailing list script
• Machine migration
• Branchmaker
• Script cleanup
• Useful Classes
• Questions?

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Who is Credence?

• Produce ATE (automated test equipment) for
  various microchips
• Product development testing
• Production testing
• Main customers
• Intel
• AMD
• Breaking into Automotive testing

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Benefits

• Wages 18.50 / hour
• Flexible schedule
• Dress code??
• Engineering Lunches
• Regular events
• Pop and Popcorn
• Ice cream
• OSCON, anyone?

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Whats going on?

• Had very little idea what was going to happen
• Mentor emailed me a list of potential projects
• Didn't know languages I was going to use
• First real CS related job

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Early Impressions

• Everyone was really helpful and welcoming
• Not a lot of up-front training
• Good basic project specs
• Could easily ask anyone for help

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SETI

• Software Engineering Tools and Infrastructure
• Ensure engineers can get work done without costly
  overhead
• Clearcase experts
• Team of 7 (plus me) positioned around the globe

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Projects Overview

• Update automated mailing list
• Retire old machine and migrate useful stuff to a
  new one
• Automatic web-based branch creator
• SETI scripts cleanup/modularize

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Update Automated Mailing list

• Easy, Introductory project
• Merge existing versions
• Create external static user list
• Test
• Skills Networked environment, Perl
• ROI
• Me High, learned basic perl
• Credence High, easily change list, little cost

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Retire Ungoliant

• Move webserver, MySQL tables, cron jobs
• New webserver kept crashing
• Skills Apache, MySQL, personal documentation
• ROI
• Me High
• Credence High, retire giant, power-hungry box

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Web-based Branchmaker

• Old system was emailing SETI
• Went through entire software design cycle
• Skills Networked environment, Perl, PHP, Apache,
  Documentation/logging, time management
• ROI
• Me High, went through entire process
• Credence High, SETI doesn't have to create
  branches all day

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Script cleanup

• Result of several merges
• Remove old scripts, identify useful ones, merge
  redundant code
• Skills Team Coordination, Perl
• ROI
• Me Medium, a lot of trivial work
• Credence Medium, unfinished project, but
  groundwork has been laid.

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General skills

• Working with a team
• Real world coding environment
• Changing requirements
• System Failures
• Other people's code
• Documentation
• Constant learning/Searching for information
• Linux
• CuBiCal FEveR!!!

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Useful Classes

• Any Programming
• Software Engineering (CS361/362)?
• Operating Systems (CS311)?
• Networking (CS372)?
• Technical Writing
• Linux

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Questions?