{"id":415,"date":"2020-07-18T00:28:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T00:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2020-08-29T18:02:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T18:02:16","slug":"of-libraries-and-interns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/18\/of-libraries-and-interns\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Libraries and Interns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Interns.png\" alt=\"Interns\" class=\"wp-image-417\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Interns.png 960w, https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Interns-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Interns-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">It is the time of the year when companies hire interns for the summer.\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it.\u00a0 Interns are hired to help with the stuff that most designers and engineers do not have the time to address.\u00a0 In our experience, that means libraries.\u00a0 Libraries are the bane of every engineering organization.\u00a0 They are important, but they are time-consuming and tedious.\u00a0 What better activity to give to a greenhorn?\u00a0 Right?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Time-consuming and tedious does not mean simple.&nbsp; Sitting an intern behind a computer, having them hack their way through an EDA tool, pulling together libraries, and then devising a way to organize the components is a recipe for disaster.&nbsp; How can an intern design and organize a library when they never designed a board, let alone designed several boards to get the \u2018gist\u2019 of what a library should contain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">There tend to be several unfortunate outcomes.&nbsp; The work of the intern may never get reviewed because the engineers and design staff are perpetually swamped.&nbsp; In some cases, when it is reviewed, it&#8217;s tossed because it was never developed correctly.&nbsp; Even if they did it correctly, who\u2019s going to maintain it thereafter?&nbsp; The next intern next year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">What\u2019s really the purpose of an intern?&nbsp; It is to give young engineers experience.&nbsp; It is not to say that having them work on libraries is a bad thing.&nbsp; In fact, it can be a great learning experience when they see both the PCB design process and library development.&nbsp; But simply starting them (and keeping them) on libraries isn\u2019t going to get you to the desired result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">We decided to showcase what it really takes to scrubbing component libraries for any given organization.  The following one-hour video illustrates our point:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SOS about Library Scrubbing\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jc8TH34M0MA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Nine Dot Connects has the resources and knowledge to build new libraries and scrub your neglected libraries.&nbsp; We can train your organization on setup and maintenance.&nbsp; Or if you are already stretched in design resources, we can provide an ongoing library component creation service.&nbsp; For more information about our services, click on this link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/design-services-component\">https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/design-services-component<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Interns and component libraries rarely mix.&nbsp; Assign interns to the PCB designs that will move your company\u2019s product onward while simultaneously moving your intern\u2019s career forward. Assign the libraries to Nine Dot Connects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the time of the year when companies hire interns for the summer.\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it.\u00a0 Interns are hired to help with the stuff that most designers and engineers do not have the time to address.\u00a0 In our experience, that means libraries.\u00a0 Libraries are the bane of every engineering organization.\u00a0 They are important, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/18\/of-libraries-and-interns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Of Libraries and Interns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8,9,10],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9dot-thinking","tag-component-library","tag-interns","tag-scrubbing-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninedotconnectssandbox.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}