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This chapter relates the journey of a girl born in a remote European region under war and who had low chance for accessing engineering study but who obstinately wanted to learn, understand the world around her, and “participate.”
From PhD to a university professor position, from logic design to real circuit layout and ultimately to web based Silicon IP exchange, she met obstacles as a mother and a woman but also got support from the IEEE community, from EU projects and nice people that you have a chance to meet in your life.
I wish all women of the world to be as stubborn as I was (and even more), to learn, understand and participate in this world which may not be an easy one …
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Saucier, G. (2020). An Exciting Journey: From Finite State Machine to Circuit Design and Ultimately to Web-Based Silicon IP Exchange. In: Parker, A., Lunardi, L. (eds) Women in Microelectronics. Women in Engineering and Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46377-9_14
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