Working at Altera was a completely different experience compared to my other internships, primarily because Altera is a hardware company and my other internships have been in software companies. At Altera, I was given lots of responsibilities and I was accountable for several tools. I worked on developing the timing correlation infrastructure that validated the Quartus delay results with the actual silicon delays, building an api for the Early Power Estimator (EPE) tool and was an integral part in developing the Power Distribution Network (PDN) tool. Having several responsibilities that made me feel that I was a crucial part of the company.