Chapter 8: Microcontrollers
Behind the workstation area, Su Xinghe, Zhang Ke and Xi Xiaoding were standing, and others, including Su Yuanshan, were sitting in the open space with chairs.
Xi Xiaoding's pale face is very flushed today, as the chief engineer and technical director. He is the assigner of all task modules, as well as the final acceptor and the one who wipes the ass.
Although the code quality of each group is uneven, it is still possible to build the far-core EDA brick by brick.
Xi Xiaoding looked around, and his smile slowly bloomed: "We are all engaged in technology, so we don't say polite words." ”
"Thank you for your cooperation and efforts in the past few months, and thank you Yuanxin for giving me the honor to cooperate with you and witness the birth of a top industry software. ”
"The completion of the main alpha version today does not mean that our task is completed, and we need to carry out BUGfix, code reduction, and follow-up tool improvement and PDK (Process Design Kit) compatibility verification with various fabs. ”
"As a technical director, I should have pointed out some shortcomings in my previous work, but today I was not disappointed. See you in the next battle!"
Everyone laughed - although Xi Xiaoding didn't point out his shortcomings today, he was really scolded a lot by him on weekdays. In particular, T University P has several computer majors, and when he first entered the company, he was very ambitious, and he didn't even pay attention to the doctoral students in the electrical department, but Xi Xiaoding seized the opportunity to split his head and cover his face for a while.
After that, I met Su Yuanshan, a hidden boss with an innocent face and harmless people and animals...... The guys were completely convinced, and finally showed a level of programming that matched their profession and origin.
"I'm done talking. Oh yes - Tang Wenjie, your daughter-in-law is here. ”
Everyone turned around, and when they saw the heroic Yang Yiwen standing behind with a smile, the whistle started again. Tang Wenjie pushed away the chair, rushed to Yang Yiwen's side, hugged his girlfriend and laughed proudly.
"Ahem...... Let me say a few more words. ”
Zhang Ke coughed, and everyone quieted down when they saw this.
Everyone knows that this is the second boss, and he is also the God of Wealth who invests money, so he gives Zhang Ke a lot of face.
"I'm not very tech-savvy, but I know you've been having a hard time lately. So......" Zhang Ke looked at his brother-in-law, stretched out his index finger and pointed at it: "Brother-in-law, walk up to the 32nd floor?"
Su Xinghe nodded with a smile: "Okay!"
"At half past six in the afternoon, the revolving restaurant on the 32nd floor, we'll see you there!"
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then burst into thunderous applause in unison.
The revolving restaurant on the 32nd floor has a minimum consumption of 300 - that's nearly a month's salary for an average college student assigned by a package. Even if the salary here is at least twice 300, it is still a high-consumption place that does not dare to set foot in.
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That night, Su Yuanshan helped his slightly drunk father to take a taxi back to school.
The two did not rush upstairs, but walked in the campus with the night breeze blowing to sober up.
"What are your plans next?" Su Xinghe stopped by the bench, rubbed his face, and looked at his son.
This EDA and even Yuanxin were almost all made up by his genius son, and he was proud and at the same time quite shocked.
Su Yuanshan swept the dust on the chair, pulled his father to sit down, and said with a smile: "Are you asking me or the company?"
"Company. ”
The existing personnel are divided into three groups, one is responsible for the follow-up research and development of EDA, and Xi Xiaoding is in charge. One is responsible for the development of the microcontroller, you come. ”
Su Xinghe's body has been all the while, and most of the alcohol has disappeared in an instant, and he stared at his son: "Create a new structure?"
Su Yuanshan nodded: "Well, the new architecture, start with the eight-bit machine." ”
Su Xinghe looked at his son's resolute face, pinched his chin, and nodded slowly after thinking for a long time: "The single-chip microcomputer is an embedded system, unlike X86, which has formed a monopoly, and it is not so complicated, it can indeed be tried." However, I can't rely on me and a few of your senior brothers, and I can only set up a joint research group with the department. ”
"There is no problem with the joint research group, as long as you are the team leader, the greatest achievement is yours. The main thing is that it's still too late. ”
Now the single-chip microcomputer has only entered the country for a short time, and the market is still in the era of strife, far from the situation that almost Intel's 8051 family dominates the 8-bit single-chip microcomputer in later generations.
This situation has also created a lack of confusion in the country - it is not clear which architecture to adopt for development. Therefore, not to mention that undergraduates are not qualified to learn single-chip microcomputers, even master's and doctoral students can only follow their supervisors to study the architecture mastered by their mentors, so as to truly enter the field of "large-scale integrated circuits".
For example, Qin Weimin and Tang Wenjie followed Su Xinghe's Z80 single-chip microcomputer.
The reason why the 51 single-chip microcomputer dominated the world in the future is that on the one hand, Intel has released almost all patents and left them to the authorized manufacturers to improve, and on the other hand, it has launched detailed teaching materials and occupied the high ground of the school. So much so that in the 21st century, the textbooks of related majors in major schools in China are all the principles of 51 single-chip microcomputer.
- Speaking of Microsoft's fortune, the same is true, first occupy the school position, and then influence the people.
- Well, Yuanxin EDA will also use this stinky and shameless way.
Once Yuanxin United Electric University has developed a single-chip microcomputer with independent property rights, as long as the performance does not drop the chain, the domestic market will at least be stable.
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Su Xinghe sighed: "It's still too late to build a single-chip microcomputer now, but X86 is difficult." Our science and engineering majors are not like liberal arts, once you don't have access to cutting-edge technology, it's really hard to catch up. Now the CPU in the west is in full swing, and there is no sound on our side...... What kind of authorization is there - people don't have authorization from AMD, and it will be reproduced in a few chisels?"
"Your Senior Brother Qin is about to graduate, and when I asked him what his plans were the other day, he was very hesitant. On the one hand, I want to stay in Yuanxin, and on the other hand, I want to apply to go abroad, and I don't know how to give him advice. Su Xinghe looked at his son, under the street lamp, although his son's face was still immature, his eyes were mature and deep, not like a young man.
Su Yuanshan smiled: "Let Senior Brother Qin stay in Yuanxin and follow you to work on a single-chip microcomputer, and after you are rated as a doctoral supervisor, let him follow you to study for a doctorate." ”
When Su Xinghe heard this, he shook his head and smiled, he patted his son on the shoulder and said softly: "Son, now it's just you and me, and I'll tell you the truth." If Qin Weimin's pursuit is only a doctorate title, of course I am willing to take him. But if Qin Weimin wants to go further in the semiconductor industry, to be precise, in the field of integrated circuit design, your father and me...... I'm afraid I'm going to mislead people's children. ”
Su Yuanshan looked at his father with admiration - a professor who can calmly admit that his academic level is still lacking, is a professor who is truly worthy of respect.
and Su Xinghe's father and son, he knows very well what his father's level is now - it is more than enough to bring a master's degree, and it is almost meaningful to bring a doctorate.
In fact, this is also the embarrassment faced by all professors and associate professors related to the semiconductor and computer industries in China. Because this is a rapidly developing technology, once you don't get into the car, it will be difficult to chase it. To change this situation, we have to wait more than ten years, and wait for those talents with advanced technology and ideas to return to China. At that time, it was no longer a question of whether or not to catch up, but whether or not to be qualified.
"No, Dad. Su Yuanshan said softly: "In addition to learning, technology can also be studied, and there were no conditions and environments before. Now that you have Yuanxin, the country is also engaged in the 908 Project, as long as we can bite and chase the people in the west, even if we can't overtake in corners, we can pull down a pair of pants. ”
"If you take Senior Brother Qin and them to make a single-chip microcomputer with their own architecture, at least this pants will be torn off and caught up. The harvest of the process of chasing is our knowledge and wealth. How can you miscalculate people's children?"
After pondering for a long time, Su Xinghe nodded heavily: "I listen to you, I will call him tomorrow and say that our opinions are to let him stay in Yuanxin." ”
Qin Weimin is still leading a team in Jiangyin, responsible for the simulation docking with PCL - he is the last process of EDA. It is equivalent to handing over the designed layout to the automation equipment, and finally the automation equipment completes the assembly line production.
It was late at night, Su Xinghe got up and was about to go home, and suddenly remembered that this kid still had a group to say.
"By the way, what else is the group doing, and who's in charge?"
Su Yuanshan smiled slightly: "Senior Brother Tian Yaoming is in charge, I will help him, and we will strive to make two decoding chips with pagers in the shortest possible time." ”
Now Motorola is working on decoding chips in conjunction with the wave, and the domestic pager coding selection is the international wireless paging No. 1 standard code, which has a large encoding address capacity and unlimited messages to send, which is most suitable for Chinese. However, in the current era when the output of Chinese characters still depends on Hanka, it is undoubtedly the best choice to make a chip focusing on Chinese encoding directly plugged into the wireless paging station to upgrade in situ.
As for Tian Yaoming, he is a second-year doctoral student majoring in electronic communication engineering in electrical science, and he was also "borrowed".
Three teams, three legs.
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