A special summer<\/p>\n
\u3053\u3093\u306b\u3061\u306f\u7686\u3055\u3093\uff01 Hello everyone and welcome to this very special edition of my blog, brought to you from 6000 miles away in Japan! The Japanese at the start means \u201cHello everyone\u201d, by the way. So, what am I doing here? Well, to answer this question you must cast your mind back (or at least move your scroll bar down!) to the end of last year, when I had a string of interviews for summer placements.<\/p>\n
I was in the very fortunate position to receive offers from four of the companies involved, and when I saw that Dialog Semiconductor had an office in Tokyo I asked if it would be possible for me to do my placement over there, and to cut a long story short, here I am! I had one week in the UK office in Swindon to start me off, but since then it\u2019s been Tokyo all the way and I\u2019m absolutely loving it! I will be here for six weeks in total, and right now I\u2019m approaching the end of week number 5 and my only complaint is over how quickly the time has gone. It has truly been a phenomenal experience!<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start with my job. So I\u2019m working for Dialog Semiconductor, who are world leaders in advanced power management devices, which in simple terms are the sort of things you put into mobile devices to make the batteries last longer. I am part of the Advanced Technologies Group, which is really cool as we\u2019re looking to create the technology of the future and as such there\u2019s some really clever stuff going on. For understandable legal reasons I can\u2019t go into any specifics of what I\u2019ve been working on, but suffice to say it\u2019s been real hands on IC design work, right down to transistor level circuit design and simulation and I have learned a huge amount. Also, my colleagues are all really friendly and helpful and have really helped me to settle in nicely. Actually, it\u2019s a real big shame that just as I\u2019ve settled into a nice routine, both in terms of my work and daily life that I\u2019m going to have to come back. That said, I am looking forward to coming back to England for a bit too, so perhaps this was an ideal length of time to spend for one summer.<\/p>\n
Outside of work I\u2019ve been really busy too so as to really make the most of my time here. I\u2019ve done lots of sightseeing every weekend and usually several evenings a week after work too! Amongst other things I\u2019ve been to the Meiji Shrine, Senso-ji Temple, the Imperial Palace and Akihabara which is the electronics-Mecca! Literally every shop has about 8-10 huge floors worth of all sorts of electronics goods; it really is quite amazing to see and a must for any engineer! Sadly though, with the current weakness of the \u00a3, it isn\u2019t quite the bargain-land I expected, so I haven\u2019t come away with anything major, but it is still nice to see. My personal favourite item was a glasses-less 3D digital camera, which had such incredible picture quality and depth it simply must be seen to be believed! Another highlight of my trip was to see an old friend for the first time in 11 years \u2013 over half my life ago! He went to school in the UK for four years when his dad worked here, but then moved back to Japan and we hadn\u2019t met since, so to do so after such a long time was really \u3059\u3054\u3044 (amazing)!<\/p>\n
I could carry on typing for ever about all the cool stuff here, but I don\u2019t want to bore you too much, so I\u2019ll leave it here for now, but shall definitely post again soon!<\/p>\n
\u3058\u3083\u307e\u305f\u306d\uff01\u3000(Speak soon!)
\n\u30a2\u30c0\u30e0 (Adam)<\/p>\n
P.S: To every who got their A-level results yesterday and will be joining Southampton, congratulations! You\u2019re definitely in for the best 3 or 4 years of your life. And let this post be a reminder to anyone who thinks engineers don\u2019t get all the fun! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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