Chapter 454: Reverse Engineering
Zhou Shuo said goodbye to He Xi and Zhou Jiajia, this meeting can only be said to be a private communication, of course, there is no need to be too fanfare.
The two of them stopped two taxis and left the café in a low-key manner, and Zhou Shuo also got into a Santana that he had temporarily transferred from the company's fleet.
His old Cherokee ran long distances and in the field, but it was a bit swaggering in the city. Now that Ma Bochang Liwei is used, he slapped Ma Boyan in the face, and the collateral result is a piece of information about Zhou Shuo, which has now become a hot topic.
The old Cherokee, as his long-time car, has now become the object of attention of many people.
Zhou Shuo drove back to the headquarters of Fanhan Group, and as soon as he stepped out of the elevator, he felt an unusual atmosphere.
Two soldiers in green military uniforms stood meticulously at the elevator entrance. As soon as I saw him, I immediately stood upright, and then gave a military salute.
"Hello Mr. Zhou, my name is 6 songs." A soldier with two bars and three stars on his shoulders stretched out his hand enthusiastically. Before Zhou Shuo could react, he was already dragging his hand and dangling it.
"Hello 6 Colonel, is there anything you want to do with me?" Zhou Shuo asked inexplicably.
"You don't know me, but I know you!" 6 Song smiled kindly and said, "I mentioned someone, do you remember it?" Director Huang of the 767 Institute, this time I was entrusted by him to ask Mr. Zhou for help! ”
"If you have anything to say, let's go in and talk about it." Zhou Shuo looked around, although this floor was the office of the group's top management, he was talking to the soldiers from the two troops in the corridor. It's not very convenient after all. With that, he took two quick steps. Pushed open the door to his office and let the two men in.
"Tea, two of you." Zhou Shuo's secretary Tang Ya looked at the two soldiers with some curiosity. The Pan Han Group is a purely commercial organization, and it really can't think of any connection with the army.
"Alright, you go out first. Nothing too important, help me push off the later arrangements first. Zhou Shuo waved his hand and drove Tang Ya out.
Long before Fanhan Group obtained the lithography machine production line, Director Huang of the 767 Institute had personally visited Xiucheng. The relationship between Hu Lao of the Ministry of Electronics Industry and the Ministry of Electronics.
Four lithography machines are not too much, but not too much, even if the cost price is 20 million yuan. In the state of tight military spending for the major disarmament, the 767 Institute can still come up with such a large sum of money. It can be seen that the task it undertakes is important.
Although Zhou Shuo didn't know much about the specific situation of the 767 Institute, he also felt that the water in it was very deep.
When these two soldiers met, they said that they were introduced by Director Huang, and it would not be wrong for Zhou Shuo to be careful here.
"Hello Mr. Zhou, let's introduce it in detail first." 6 Ge pointed to himself and the soldier next to him, took out a military ID card from his arms, handed it over and said: "We are from the C3I Planning Office jointly established by the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the General Logistics Department, and I am responsible for this contact with you. As for the person sitting next to me, you can just call him Section Chief Liu. His duties are both internal and external. So I won't introduce it. ”
Zhou Shuo took the military ID card of 6 songs and looked at it carefully. frowned and said, "Colonel 6, it's not that I don't believe you, but I don't know much about the authenticity of this military ID." Can I call and verify? ”
Originally, it stands to reason that 6 songs can show the relationship between the director of 767 Huang, and this person should be trustworthy. However, the C3i Planning Office is too big, and the state has invested 3.6 billion yuan. Dare to come out with this title, can there be a trivial matter?
Zhou Shuo didn't want to become a laughing stock on the Internet more than ten years later, and the chairman of the dignified Fanhan Group was deceived. That's going to be level news. What's more, the later generations consulted so well, but he has not seen those funny cases of impersonating soldiers. It only takes a little time to verify a document. It's better than making a fool of yourself.
With the consent of 6 songs, Zhou Shuo directly called the Armed Forces Department of Xiucheng and took a moment to determine the identity of 6 songs.
"I'm sorry, there are too many liars in society now, and I have to be cautious." Zhou Shuo smiled and returned the military ID card to 6 songs, and apologized.
"Where, Mr. Zhou's cautious attitude makes me look forward to cooperating with you even more."
6 Ge put away his military ID, no matter what he thought in his heart, at least on the surface, he couldn't see any dissatisfaction.
"Then let's get straight to the point, I don't know what happened when Colonel 6 found our Pan Han Group?"
6 Ge Zhengse said: "That's the case, we found out from Director Huang, Mr. Zhou is working on a central processing unit chip here?" ”
"SPARC, SCA1AB1EprocessorArchitectureScalable processor architecture, is a type of Japanese SC reduced instruction set microprocessor." Zhou Shuo nodded and agreed: "We are doing reverse engineering based on a sample we have obtained, and the main task at present is to refactor its source code." ”
Of course, this is Zhou Shuo's nonsense, a special processor launched by Sparnet. In 2oo5, the source code of its U1 Trasparct1 model processor was revealed, making this CPU a niche in the large professional server market.
Zhou Shuo, who has been committed to CPU design in his previous life, has certainly studied this product very deeply. He couldn't write the source code in its entirety, but he had no problem writing an architecture and technical standards. With the architecture in place, and a good project manager, the rest of the work is just a step-by-step process.
At present, the source code of SPARCT1 has been completed, and Menghai Microelectronics Design Center is carrying out reverse design of the chip according to the source code.
Although they are both designing chips, this reverse design is not the same as the difficulty of the original CPU design. With the source code, the chip design is like building blocks, with wooden squares and drawings in hand, and it is enough to follow the drawings. However, when Sun designed SPARCT1, it was impossible to do this, so it had to design the chip first and then write the source code. This difficulty is probably like Van Gogh's abstract paintings.
"Then I don't know, how long will it take for this CPU to come out with a finished product?" 6 Ge asked cautiously.
"Finished product, this requirement is high." Zhou Shuo shook his head and said: "The cycle of chip design is very long, even if we come up with the product now, there will be a short period of time for testing and follow-up." And our domestic chip design level, let alone CPU, even ordinary application-specific integrated circuit technology is insufficient. If you want to come up with results, I'm afraid it won't be until the second half of next year. ”
"...... like this" 6 songs' faces are not disappointed, but they are also a little depressed.
Zhou Shuo still wanted to do something for the people's soldiers, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "I don't know what Colonel 6 wants to use this CPU for?" If it's convenient, can you tell me more about it? ”
6 Song lowered his head and thought about it, nodded and said: "The C3i system is in the military, no matter how many new technologies it applies, but in fact it is a command automation system. If you want to automate, you can't do without the support of a computer. Our country still has some advantages in space technology, but when it comes to the ground battlefield, it is far from the international level. ”
Zhou Shuo nodded silently, he didn't know much about the military, and what impressed him the most was Liu Cixin's book "Full-Band Blocking Interference". Although it is referred to as Russian, everyone knows that it is written in China. Full-band jamming can be said to be a helpless choice for weak countries in electronic warfare. Although it is not good, this is indeed a portrayal of China's electronic warfare technology today.
"China opened the C3I system in the hope of being able to make up for the gap with the international community in this regard. Among them, the electronic computer system is the top priority, but it is a pity that our country is really backward in terms of military chip technology, and the use of foreign products is worried about safety issues. The only hope is that there will be a dual-use product......"
Zhou Shuo was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes lit up. The entire C3I system is extremely large, from the ground to space, from the front line of operations to the national combat command center, how much chip is used? If Pan Han Group can win the computer system part of the entire system, there will be at least tens of billions of orders!
"This matter, we Fanhan Group are duty-bound!" Zhou Shuo patted his chest and puffed out his eyes and said: "Colonel 6 or let's talk about the specific requirements, performance, time and production capacity, what kind of role can our SPARC processor assume in the C3i system, and how much is used?" ”
"Performance, it is enough to be able to reach 2oomhz, and it is more necessary to take care of the quality requirements of military products and adapt to harsh working environments such as high temperature, low temperature, and vibration. There is no problem with time, even if the finished product can be produced in the second half of next year, in fact, it can barely catch up with the schedule. As for what role this CPU can play in the C3i system, and how much it will be used, it's really hard to say at the moment. ”
6 Song hesitated for a moment, but still said: "In fact, the entire C3I project is still in the planning stage, and the role of this CPU depends on the entire system it is paired with." See if it can be used in a communication system, in a command system, or in a computer-controlled system. To be honest, if we can't develop a computer system based on SPARC processors in China, we will even have to give up using your CPU. (To be continued!)
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