Mother Teresa Debugging Blessing

I attribute a lot of my success to the Mother Theresa figurine I keep at my desk praying for me as I write Verilog. 51 logic start_tx_pulse 53 always_ff @(posedge CLK) begin 54 if (rst_rx) begin 55 arp_rx_bits <= '0; 56 byte_cnt_rx <= '0; 57 start_tx_pulse <= 1'b0; 58 start_tx_last <= 1'b0; 60 state_rx <= S_IDLE; 62 end else begin 63 case (state_rx) 64 S_IDLE: begin 65 if (DATA_VALID_RX) begin 66 byte_cnt_rx <= 1; 67 arp_rx_bits [7:0] <= DATA_RX; 68 state_rx <= S_RX_FRAME; 69 end

A desk photo shows a Mother Teresa figurine praying beside a monitor displaying Verilog code. The joke is that the programmer humorously credits the figurine’s prayers for their coding success, treating religious faith as a debugging or engineering aid. People send this as a reaction to surviving difficult programming work or mysteriously getting code to function.

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