Qin Weimin got up to say hello to the person who came, and stretched out his hand: "Hello." Xi Xiaoding, right?"

The young man named Xi Xiaoding nodded, shook hands with Qin Weimin, and then sat down calmly. He was thin and didn't have much blood on his face, but he had a keen eye and a good look.

Su Yuanshan looked at Qin Weimin with some surprise, because he found that Qin Weimin was a little at a loss at this moment.

He coughed and approached Qin Weimin's desk: "Excuse me, senior brother, I'll send you a document." ”

"Well, put it down. Qin Weimin pushed his resume in front of Su Yuanshan, then looked at Xi Xiaoding, and smiled: "It seems that I should call you Senior Brother Xi." ”

Xi Xiaoding finally smiled, shook his head and said, "It's okay, I read early, and I may not be as old as you." ”

Su Yuanshan coughed again, and then he saw the resume.

Xi Xiaoding.

HKUST Junior Class.

M.S.: Electronic Engineering, HKUST, under the tutelage of Jianmin Wang.

Ph.D.: UPenn Computer and Information Science under George Zoe.

Su Yuanshan took a breath lightly.

The junior class of HKUST did recruit many talented teenagers that year, and most of them chose to study abroad, and many of them also had a good future after returning to China.

UPenn, University of Pennsylvania. How could such a big guy appear here? You know, those who studied abroad did not return to China at this moment!

It was Su Yuanshan and Qin Weimin who looked at each other, and they both saw the doubt and helplessness in each other's eyes, this person was obviously here to play the field!

Sensing the strange atmosphere, Xi Xiaoding smiled slightly, and a flush rose on his pale face: "I returned to China this time because my father died, and I still have time left after dealing with the aftermath, so I want to walk around." I saw your job advertisement on the train and thought it was interesting, so I stopped by and took a look. If it is abrupt, please understand. ”

"Condolences. Qin Weimin politely said and said with a smile: "Senior Brother Xi, your teacher and my teacher are also the same class." ”

Xi Xiaoding nodded: "I heard Mr. Wang talk about Professor Su, and he also admires Professor Su's academic temperament. ”

"I thank Professor Wang on behalf of my father. Su Yuanshan bowed slightly as a son, and said with a smile: "Does Senior Brother Xi have any plans to stay?"

"Not for the time being, I've already got an offer from IBM. Xi Xiaoding shook his head: "I'm just coming to see." ”

Oh, it's just pretending to be forced and leaving.

"What did Senior Brother Xi see?"

"That's the ......" Xi Xiaoding lowered his eyes and smiled: "We are engaged in technology, not to mention vain heads." To tell the truth, there is a big gap between domestic computers, whether software or hardware, and foreign countries. Someone has to go out and see, to learn. I see you're going to pull a bunch of college graduates into EDA, and most of them are science and engineering...... It's a bit like doing it behind closed doors. ”

Qin Weimin was silent when he said this.

He is a native master's student, and in front of a big guy like a junior class and a doctor from Pennsylvania, his momentum is indeed shorter.

Fortunately, Su Yuanshan is not short in terms of psychophysiology or lying and standing.

He also smiled: "But Senior Brother Xi, the next sentence of going out behind closed doors is to go out in the right way." In more than a month, Yuanxin EDA has taken shape, and the first tool has been basically completed. I don't know how many kinds of EDA Senior Brother Xi has been exposed to?"

Xi Xiaoding glanced at Su Yuanshan: "Although I didn't continue to follow the direction of integrated circuits when I studied for a doctorate, I haven't lost the circuit design." From Protel to Mentor and Cadence, it has been used. ”

"Why don't you try it?" Su Yuanshan motioned to Qin Weimin to let him.

Xi Xiaoding looked at Su Yuanshan in surprise - this is the interface to let himself see the unfinished project?

"Senior Brother Xi can also see if the level of procedures in China lags behind the West. Su Yuanshan sat on the chair and stuffed the floppy disk into the computer: "Although this is a trade secret, I believe that Senior Brother Xi can keep it secret, and even if the secret is leaked, no one can catch up with me, not even the blue giant." ”

Xi Xiaoding endured it, and finally stood up and stood behind Su Yuanshan.

Su Yuanshan opened C++, loaded the project, and then debugged.

The first interface that popped up made Xi Xiaoding's eyelids jump!

It's so beautiful.

"I won't go into details about these reserved interfaces, wait for me to connect the tools first. ”

Su Yuanshan opened the source code of the input tool he was responsible for, aligned the interface in three or two steps, and started the tool.

"Now I'm going to show you how to draw a simple PCB – the component database isn't perfect, so let's make a radio. ”

Saying that, Su Yuanshan skillfully called up the drawing interface and began to draw the PCB, only to see that he almost didn't think about it, and easily added various components to the PCB, and then all kinds of lines were connected instantly.

In less than five minutes, a simple radio PCB was completed.

Qin Weimin smiled and patted Su Yuanshan's shoulder, and the corner of his eye kept paying attention to Xi Xiaoding's expression.

Although he has not been proficient in using the EDAs that Xi Xiaoding reported just now, he has seen them all.

Frankly speaking, Yuanxin EDA has surpassed similar software in terms of design ideas, ease of use, and "intelligence"!

Xi Xiaoding's face was expressionless, but his pupils had shrunk to a very small size, and his right hand inadvertently clenched his fist.

"Moreover, our program design is modular, team-based, and uses dedicated libraries to achieve a high degree of uniformity in code readability. ”

Moreover, what is shown now is only the tip of the iceberg, the core function of tele-core EDA lies in the design of large-scale integrated circuits. It's no exaggeration to say that once it's done, a CPU design team will be able to double the CPU architecture design time! And it can now design CPUs with more than 10 million transistors!"

"Correspondingly, our simulation tools provide a variety of in-depth debugging parameters, and only need the corresponding data provided by the fab to complete the corresponding simulation support. ”

Hearing this, Xi Xiaoding finally retorted: "Impossible! Chip simulation already belongs to the field of physics, you don't have a lot of data to support it, how can you write the algorithm?"

Even deeper, in his opinion, how can a small workshop-like development team make software that can lead the world!

Su Yuanshan was silent for a few seconds, he didn't know how to explain to Xi Xiaoding-Could it be that Senior Brother Xi, I came from thirty years ago, and I used to engage in the simulation function of Synopsys, and the data, physical characteristics, and algorithms you mentioned were actually familiar to me for a long time? So he had to laugh slowly.

"All code implementations are ultimately a reflection of human intelligence. ”

"All design solutions are also a reflection of human intelligence at the end of the day. ”

"No matter how bad it is in China, there are several wafer factories, and it is also possible to produce some data, and we can also recruit and cultivate physical talents. In addition, even in foreign countries, various data generated by the wafer factory in the process need to be provided to EDA manufacturers. Have you ever seen that EDA design company run its own physics lab and its own fab? So, why is it impossible? Why is it impossible?"

Xi Xiaoding raised his head sharply and stared at Su Yuanshan for a long time.

Qin Weimin squinted his eyes and said slowly: "Senior Brother Xi, you were right just now, we must go out and see and learn." But I think ...... A Ph.D. is already a great achievement. ”

"C++ has only been born for more than ten years, and foreigners are not much more skilled than us. Su Yuanshan stood up and pulled out a floppy disk: "I just think that I know the C++ language better than anyone else, and I am not convinced." ”

It took more than 20 years in his previous life, and he trained for more than a month in this life, and Su Yuanshan dared to say such a big thing.

And his mastery and familiarity with C++ is not the main thing, the most important thing is that he has the acumen and intuition of an "old" programmer, as well as a variety of ideas. As for EDA, it is supported by various data from later generations and even the FinFET era.

The thirty-five-year-old programmer was dismissed, not because he was not good at technology, but because he was not good at health.

Xi Xiaoding looked at Su Yuanshan in surprise.

Qin Weimin looked at the two of them and smiled: "That's it, Senior Brother Xi, you sign a confidentiality agreement, you look at Xiaoshan's code, and I'll go outside for an interview." ”

Xi Xiaoding was silent for a while, then grabbed the pen and paper on the table.

Su Yuanshan and Qin Weimin smiled at the same time.

......

Three hours later, Xi Xiaoding looked up from the monitor.

The office was empty, and he was the only one in it.

Through the translucent frosted glass, he saw a small meeting going on at the workstation in front of him. Everyone sat or stood, and from time to time there were bursts of laughter.

I don't know what Associate Professor Su said, but everyone began to applaud again.

Immediately afterwards, the little girl at the front desk and the little lady at the accounting brought a boxed lunch for everyone, and a group of people sat together like that and chatted while eating, without any sense of hierarchy. Occasionally, someone would operate a computer, and then a bunch of heads would look around, and several hands would reach over to point.

It's a dynamic startup.

At this time, the door was pushed open, and I saw Professor Su's son Su Yuanshan, the young man who claimed to know C++ best, walked in with a boxed lunch, looking at him with a smile.

"Senior brother eats. ”

Xi Xiaoding nodded, he licked his lips, pointed to the code and asked, "You wrote it all, including the engineering library?"

Su Yuanshan nodded: "The main framework, library, interface, and tools are all written by me." ”

Xi Xiaoding took the lunch box silently, but he didn't know what to say.

Su Yuanshan's code, he can completely understand it.

You know, code is good if it can be read by others.

And because of this, he knows...... Su Yuanshan is very strong, stronger than all the programmers he has ever seen. If you take martial arts novels as an analogy, it means that Su Yuanshan's programming level has entered the realm.

In the past three hours, he had exclaimed in his heart more than once that this cycle could still be realized like this, and this condition could still be judged like this.

Not to mention the professional engineering library, concise, efficient, and perfect. Adding one line of code is too much, subtracting one line of code is too little.

Su Yuanshan has the qualifications to say that he is not convinced.

It's a genius...... Xi Xiaoding thought of this crooked sentence that he was tired of hearing since he was a child.

Leaning on the back of the chair, Xi Xiaoding exhaled slowly.

Su Yuanshan sat on the desk, swallowed his food, and smiled, "What does Senior Brother think of this chair?"

"Oh, it's good, it's just a little hard. Xi Xiaoding replied casually, but he immediately looked at Su Yuanshan.

"Then change it to a soft one. Su Yuanshan said with a smile.

Xi Xiaoding no matter how sophisticated he was, he also heard what Su Yuanshan meant, and he licked his lips again to hide the dazed and panicked trace in his heart.

Su Yuanshan ate slowly.

In fact, Su Yuanshan completely "hit" Xi Xiaoding with the mentality of treating a dead horse as a live horse doctor -- let him put this aside and pretend to be forced! Dr. Penn is amazing? We are also Dr. Columbia! They are all eight babies on a vine, who is afraid of whom.

Now Su Yuanshan knows that Xi Xiaoding is actually a little tempted.

IBM's treatment and prospects are good, but if this Xi Xiaoding is really a good person, then he knows how strong the programming ability is reflected in the code of Yuanxin EDA. He will definitely consider whether it is worth it to participate in the development of a world-class product in exchange for an IBM offer.

If this person is really proud, then he will definitely not play the easy mode when playing the game.

Taking a step back, Yuanxin's future development is not satisfactory to him, and it is also a shining qualification to participate in and even lead the development of a world-leading EDA.

So Su Yuanshan stared at Xi Xiaoding and said slowly: "Senior Brother Xi, do you really want to waste the rest of your life in those irrelevant departments of IBM? just to get some beautiful knives and then live a life of wife and children?"

After an organization was established, Chinese engineers were never able to move into the newest and most critical positions in the semiconductor companies in the West. In the past, when Su Yuanshan was at Intel, the most key technology he could access was a product that was two generations behind - Pentium II.

"Or maybe you've always played the game in easy mode?"

"We don't have to worry about starvation. The only concern is whether the technology can be realized, and at the same time, whether the body and mind are happy. ”

"I haven't seen my brother's technique yet, but when I look at it, I think my brother is a cow, and a cow should have the temper to dare to change the sun and the moon. ”

Facing Su Yuanshan's lift, Xi Xiaoding lowered his head and smiled after being silent for a long time.

"For example, you want to do EDA?"

"Not only EDA, but also chips. ”

Su Yuanshan shrugged his shoulders: "It's nothing more than bursting the liver and burning the brain, who is afraid of whom?"

After a long time, Xi Xiaoding exhaled heavily.

"Can I ask about the salary?"

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