Chapter 277: Squeezing

In the UK, in ARM's newly upgraded clean room, Tan Jun led a team of 12 people to develop a new mobile phone chip with ARM7 as the core.

After half a year of familiarization and sorting out of the specifications, frameworks, modules, and functions of the microarchitecture.

His team has been able to design chips that meet the needs according to the characteristics of the ARM7 series architecture.

And it has been upgraded according to the latest requirements. With the maturity of chip technology, the upgrade of technology is much faster than imagined.

Today's ARM is like a rumbling machine, with more than 200 people up and down, and basically everyone has a task.

From low-end cash register equipment application chips, to MP3, DVD, VCD multimedia integrated chips, to high-end mobile phone chips.

Basically covers the current market demand, most of the consumer electronics. Of course, there are also chips based on electronic control equipment such as TVs and washing machines, and people are also engaged in professional research and development.

ARM's infrastructure is like a foundation, and these people are constantly building different modules on this foundation to design buildings with different functions.

Of course, there are successes and failures. From the design of a chip to the final tape-out, a lot of delicate work is required.

If you make a mistake in the slightest link, you have to start all over again. Even after the front-end design has been completed from firing, modifying, verifying, and getting the logic completely correct.

It is also possible to pour on the generated physical layout. If a chip wants to be successfully taped out, there must be no mistake in any link.

Fortunately, after ARM was acquired by BBK, Chu Qing did not hesitate to allocate a large amount of money to them for research and development.

This is why they have a stable output in the past six months.

"Boss, it's done!" In the clean room, looking at the latest mobile phone chip that has just been tested. A red-eyed young man waved his hand excitedly.

This is a chip that integrates GSM baseband. It was also the first time that their team passed a software test in the past month, after failing more than a dozen times in a row.

More than a dozen people have gone through hundreds of tests to find an optimal solution.

"This is only the first step, whether it will be successful or not depends on the effect after generating the physical layout." Although Tan Jun was also excited in his heart, he hadn't really succeeded after all, so he was much more stable than them.

"Boss, this time it must be fine, I'm sure!" The red-eyed Chen Yunrong can't be as indifferent as Tan Jun.

This can be regarded as the first mobile phone chip designed by all Chinese people. Just thinking about it makes the fledgling engineers enthusiastic.

"It's good to have this confidence, but science needs practice, wait for you to go to the lab and run the diagram yourself, if you can, we'll take it to tape-out this time." Until you see the real thing, everything is in the air. After staying with this group of energetic young people for a long time, Tan Jun slowly regained the enthusiasm he once had.

In the ten years he was overseas, he had seen too much discrimination and exclusion. Unlike these young people, who can be exposed to cutting-edge technology as soon as they come up.

Even after all these years at Rutherford National Laboratory, it was still difficult for him to get to the core.

They need to put in a lot more effort than they do if they want to catch up with their peers. This also caused him to gradually lose his scientific exploration.

Although he was recruited with a high salary at the beginning, he also agreed out of interest. Of course, there is also a trace of family and country feelings in it.

It's just that these people who came out of China are much more practical than Lao Liang. After all, at that time, he didn't think that domestic companies could really master the cutting-edge technologies of chip design just by acquisition.

Without the participation of their own people, many times the acquisition of such high-tech enterprises is actually giving them money.

But when he really threw himself into the job, he gradually had some different ideas.

Not to mention, BBK has brought so many young people from China to support and cultivate. The funds that BBK invested in R&D were what he didn't expect at first.

In particular, it has also invested 800 million yuan in Xiangjiang to build a wafer factory. From the series of actions of backgammon, he can feel that backgammon is different from the state-owned enterprises he knew in the past.

Perhaps, perhaps, they are really capable of making a career. A day later, the new ARM720T-based baseband integrated chip passed physical verification.

Just wait for it to be sent to the wafer factory for tape-out, and it can be officially used in commercial use. Although the fab is still under construction, the production contract between ARM and VLSI will not expire until the end of 1996.

Therefore, when the mobile phone processor newly designed by Tan Jun's team passed the production verification, it was sent to the VLSI factory for tape-out production for a while.

When Chu Qing received the news, he had just come out of the flight from the capital to Shenzhen. Rubbing his sore waist, Chu Qing encouraged Tan Jun's team a few words, and then turned around and gave Duan Guohong an order.

"Inform the technical department to come up with a solution based on the new all-in-one chip as soon as possible. I want to see the finished product before the new product launch in March. "The reason why Chu Qing dared to open up technology to the outside world was because of the advanced technologies he mastered.

With the continuous development of mobile phone chips, he can always ensure that BBK's products are one grade more advanced than those on the market.

Abandon the low-end, give way to the high-end mobile phone, from the beginning of the high-end market. in order to maximize the profits of backgammon.

"Brother Qing, why don't I send you back to rest first, and I won't go to the company today." After watching Chu Qing finish speaking, he subconsciously helped his waist again, and Duan Guohong asked tentatively.

The boss's old problem of back pain, he knew it from the time he first talked to Chu Qing. It's just that I didn't expect a few years of tiger bone wine to moisturize, and I didn't see it, but now it seems to be more serious.

"No, just go to the company." How did he know that although Chu Qing often had back pain, the tiger bone wine still had an effect.

Otherwise, it would not have been two consecutive shocks on the office chair. It's just that although the boss chair is big, it is not a bed after all, so back pain is inevitable.

However, before leaving, looking at Wei Ling's radiant and energetic appearance, Chu Qing was a little puzzled.

The same chair, the same tired as a dog, but how can she recover so quickly every time, it is the same as a full charge.

Thinking of the desperate eyes of Brother Xiao Ma and Ding Sanshi before leaving, Chu Qing couldn't help but laugh in his heart.

Let you like 996, and let you try the taste of good fortune. Of course, you can't squeeze them all at once, you still have to remind Wei Ling that you have to give them a vacation after being busy these days.

You can't just catch a fish!