Chapter 64: Playing is about technology
Because compared with the ASCLL code, the POCSAG code has been successfully applied in the wireless paging system, this living technique is not used in front of it, and to spend a lot of money to engage in another set of techniques, this is not called smart, this is called stupid, because everyone's technical strength is basically on a horizontal line, you have your advantages, I have my advantages.
If you want to gain more market share, the best way to do it is to launch new products to the market as early as possible, and since all of them can achieve the expected features, then no one will be stupid at this point.
However, Yao Fei is different from what they think, compared to those manufacturers, he sees farther, because POCSAG code has many key disadvantages compared with ASCLL code.
PACSAG code transmission efficiency is low for the time being, and the frequency capacity of the wireless paging system built with it is still very limited, even if it is calculated according to 1200bit/s, the user capacity of a frequency point is only 3~40,000, and the total capacity is about 2 million, which is enough when the pager is expensive now, but with the development of social economy and the progress of science and technology, this number will definitely be exploded!
"No, they'll pay the price they deserve for saving trouble......"
And the use of ASCLL code, there is no such restriction at all, he itself is a machine language, can be directly recognized by the machine, although only 8 bits, but the computer uses this set of code, with Yao Fei's mind of the technical reserves, can play completely, numbers, letters, Chinese characters, or other Chinese? That's fine, they just need to code according to the rules he specified......
"OK, you're the boss, and you're better than me, so you have the final say......"
I heard that Yao Fei's boss was born in skills, he and Bentley at first found an opportunity to "communicate" with Yao Fei, at first they came one by one because of face, but soon they found that their brains were not enough, so the two joined forces to use both soft and hard, mixed doubles, and finally failed to take advantage of the slightest benefit, so they had to take it!
"Well, in addition, the shape must be well designed, and the volume, I also hope to be reduced to only half of the size of the mouse, and the LCD screen must also be enlarged, preferably to occupy half of the front area......"
Yao Fei's idea is very simple, that is, to directly follow the small BP machine model of later generations, and then continue to develop new products according to this mold.
"Your requirements are too high, after our research on the Motorola BRAVO digital pager, they have achieved a minimum in both circuit design and functional component integration......
The whimsical requests came one after another, and even Hillis felt a great headache at this time.
"I've been aware of this problem, and I've thought about it, and if we follow their existing machine architecture, we certainly won't be able to make a small pager.
However, if we use new technology, we can design our pager with reference to the structure of the computer, but this is a product that has gone through a lot of simplification......"
Network, including telephones, fax machines, telegraphs, pagers, electronic computers, mobile phones and many other members, Yao Fei can be completely strategic, as long as the most reliable can meet the needs and habits of users for pager functions, it is not a matter of how to do what you want!
"Boss, you mean we redesign a system? And then integrate most of the pager's functions? ”
After Yao Fei's intermittent dots and combined with his own knowledge reserves, Hilliston understood.
"That's right, except for those few patented technologies that we can't avoid, I'm ready to use new technologies, and I visited Intel and AMD the other day, and I have a new understanding of their capabilities for large-scale circuit integration.
Therefore, we can use large-scale circuit integration technology and microcontroller technology in our pager, or if the cost is too high, take a step back and chip packaging technology......"
Large-scale circuit integration technology is to use a certain process to interconnect the transistors, diodes, resistors, capacitors and inductors and other components and wiring required in a circuit, and make them on a small piece or several small semiconductor wafers or dielectric substrates, and then encapsulate them in a tube shell to become a miniature structure with the required circuit function, in which all components have formed a whole in the structure, which is the core technology of electronic products continuously moving towards miniaturization. Expanding product functionality is just an empty phrase.
The single-chip microcomputer technology is to cooperate with large-scale circuit integration technology, the functional components are integrated on a chip, and the internal bus structure can reduce the connection between the chips, greatly improve its reliability and anti-interference ability, and because of its small size, it is very easy to take shielding measures for strong magnetic field environments, which is very suitable for working in harsh environments.
In addition, the programs that run with it are also in the form of solidification to improve reliability, and almost every product with electronic devices used in human life will be integrated with a microcontroller, in short, the benefits are innumerable.
As for chip stacking, to put it bluntly, this thing is to save costs, using multiple "three low" chips with low integration, low price and low performance after technical stacking and packaging, stacking them into a high-performance chip as a whole, so that it can meet certain functional requirements.
The combination of the two core technologies of large-scale integrated circuits and single-chip microcomputers is completely the manufacturing technology of mobile phones in the future, and now it is used by Yao Fei to make pagers, he doesn't believe it, and this can't play with other companies.
"I completely agree, I think I have been constrained by the technology used in other companies' products before, and I will try to innovate the technology in ......the future."
What he said just now is equivalent to Yao Fei giving Hillis a lecture on the application of science and technology, which made him suddenly come back to his senses, and the development of electronic products from generation to generation can only and must rely on continuous technological innovation.
The design mode of products has always reached a bottleneck one day, and people's thinking and creativity, like the vast starry sky above our heads, can never see the boundary, supporting the continuous progress and development of the entire human society.
"Mr. Bentley, your next task is also very difficult, because not only do I need you to write a numeric alphanumeric decoder in ASCLL code, but I also want you to set up a team of people who are proficient in Chinese programming skills to start developing the Chinese character decoder!"
One step first, in order to step by step, since we are ready to engage in alphabet pager, then at the same time it is very necessary to arrange Hanxian pager in advance, Chinese characters do not want English letters and numbers, this must be a huge amount of project.
"Boss, do you want to make our products enter the mainland market? But given the current socio-economic situation in this country, only a few people can afford our products, and I think it's a question worth considering! ”