Chapter 8 Microcontroller

Behind the workstation area, Su Xinghe, Zhang Ke and Xi Xiaoding were standing. Others, including Su Yuanshan, moved chairs and sat in the open space.

Xi Xiaoding's pale face was very red today, as chief engineer and technical director. He is the assigner of all task modules, as well as the final acceptor and wiper.

Although the code quality of each group was uneven, Yuanxin EDA was finally built brick by brick.

Xi Xiaoding looked around and smiled slowly: "We are all technical people, so we don't use polite words."

"Thank you all for your cooperation and efforts in the past few months, and also thank you to Yuexin for giving me the honor to cooperate with you and witness the birth of a top-notch industry software."

"The completion of the main alpha version today does not mean that our task is completed. Next, we need to fix the bugs, streamline the code, improve the follow-up tools, and conduct PDK (Process Design Kit standard unit library, tool library) with each wafer factory. Compatibility verification of packages).”

"As the technical director, I should have pointed out some deficiencies in my previous work, but today I can't defeat everyone's interest. There is a long way to go, and we will see you in the next battle!"

Everyone burst into laughter - even though Xi Xiaoding said he wouldn't point out his shortcomings today, he got scolded a lot from him on weekdays. In particular, there were several computer majors in T University and P University. When they first joined the company, they were very high-spirited and even ignored the Ph.D. students in the electrical department. However, Xi Xiaoding took the opportunity to teach them a lesson.

After that, they met the hidden BOSS Su Yuanshan who looked innocent and harmless... Only then did those guys become completely convinced, and finally demonstrated their programming standards that were consistent with their profession and background.

"I'm done. Oh, by the way - Tang Wenjie, your wife is here."

Everyone turned around, and when they saw the heroic Yang Yiwen standing behind with a smile, the whistles started again. Tang Wenjie pushed away the chair, rushed to Yang Yiwen, hugged his girlfriend and laughed proudly.

"Ahem...let me say a few more words."

Zhang Ke coughed, and everyone became quiet 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 technical, but I know everyone has been working hard recently. So..." Zhang Ke looked at his brother-in-law and pointed with his index finger: "Brother-in-law, are you starting from the 32nd floor?"

Su Xinghe nodded with a smile: "Okay!"

"At 6:30 p.m., we'll see you at the revolving restaurant on the 32nd floor!"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then burst into thunderous applause.

The revolving restaurant on the 32nd floor has a minimum consumption of RMB 300 - which is nearly a month's salary for an ordinary college student with one package. Even if the salary here is at least twice that of 300, it is still a high-consumption place that you dare not set foot in.

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That night, Su Yuanshan helped his drunken father take a taxi back to school.

The two of them did not rush upstairs, but took a walk on campus to sober up in the night breeze.

"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 created by his genius son. He was proud but also 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 staff are divided into three groups. One is responsible for the follow-up research and development of EDA, led by Xi Xiaoding. The other is responsible for the development of microcontrollers, and you will do it."

Su Xinghe's body was still strong, and most of his drunkenness disappeared instantly. He stared at his son: "Create a new structure?"

Su Yuanshan nodded: "Well, the new architecture will start with the eight-bit machine."

Su Xinghe looked at his son's resolute face, held his chin, and nodded slowly after thinking for a long time: "The microcontroller is an embedded system. It's not like X86, which has formed a monopoly, and it's not that complicated. You can really try it. But just rely on you and me. A few senior brothers can't do it, so we can only set up a joint research group with the department."

"There is no problem with the joint research team. As long as you are the team leader, the biggest results will be yours. The most important thing is that it is not too late to do it now."

Nowadays, microcontrollers have just entered the country, and the market is still in an era of disputes among heroes. It is far from the situation where Intel's 8051 family will dominate the 8-bit microcontroller market in later generations.

This situation has also caused confusion in the country - not knowing which structure to adopt for development. Therefore, not to mention that undergraduates are not qualified to learn microcontrollers, even masters and PhDs can only follow their tutors to study the architecture mastered by their tutors, thereby truly entering the field of "large-scale integrated circuits".

For example, Qin Weimin, Tang Wenjie and others learned the Z80 microcontroller from Su Xinghe.

The reason why the 51 microcontroller will dominate the world in the future is that on the one hand, Intel has released almost all patents to allow authorized manufacturers to improve, and on the other hand, it has launched detailed teaching materials and occupied the high ground of schools. So much so that in the 21st century, the teaching materials for relevant majors in major domestic schools all use the principles of the 51 microcontroller.

——The same goes for Microsoft's fortune. It first occupied schools and then influenced the people.

——Well, Yuanxin EDA will also use this shameless method.

Once Yuanxin and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China come up with a microcontroller with independent property rights, as long as the performance is not compromised, the domestic market will at least be stable.

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Su Xinghe sighed: "It's still too late to develop microcontrollers now, but X86 is difficult. Our science and engineering majors are not like liberal arts. Once we are not exposed to cutting-edge technology, it is really difficult to pursue it. Now the CPU in the west is in full swing, and here we are There is no sound at all... What kind of authorization is there - AMD didn’t even authorize it, so it can be reproduced with just a few chisels?”

"Your senior brother Qin is about to graduate. A few days ago, I asked him what his plans were, and he was very hesitant. On the one hand, he wanted to stay in Yuanxin, and on the other hand, he wanted to apply to study abroad. I don't know how to give him any advice. ." Su Xinghe looked at his son. Under the street lamp, although his son's face was still immature, his eyes were so mature and profound that he didn't look like a young man.

Su Yuanshan smiled: "Let senior brother Qin stay in Yuanxin and follow you to develop microcontrollers. After you become a doctoral supervisor, let him study for a doctoral degree with you."

When Su Xinghe heard this, he shook his head and smiled. He patted his son on the shoulder and said softly: "Son, it's just you and me, and I will tell you the truth. If Qin Weimin's pursuit only requires a doctorate title, of course I will Take him with you. But if Qin Weimin wants to go further in the semiconductor industry, or to be precise, integrated circuit design, your father and I... are afraid that we will mislead others. "

Su Yuanshan looked at his father with admiration - a professor who can frankly admit that his academic level is still lacking is a truly respectable professor.

He and Su Xinghe were two generations of father and son, and he knew very well what level his father was at now - it was more than enough to teach him a master's degree, but it was almost useless to teach him a doctor.

In fact, this is also the embarrassment faced by all domestic professors and associate professors related to the semiconductor and computer industries. Because this is a rapidly developing technology, once you don’t get on the bus, it will be difficult to catch up. To change this situation, we have to wait for more than ten years until those talents with advanced technologies and ideas return to China. At that time, it was no longer a question of whether we could catch up, but whether we were qualified to catch up.

"No, Dad." Su Yuanshan said softly: "In addition to learning, technology can also be developed. There was no conditions and environment before. Now you have Yuanxin, and the country is also working on the 908 project. As long as we can bite the bullet and pursue it, Those people on the west side, even if they can’t overtake in corners, they can still pull off their pants.”

"If you lead Senior Brother Qin and the others to develop a self-architected microcontroller, at least these pants will be torn off and you will catch up. What you gain from the pursuit is our knowledge and wealth. How can you be mistaken for someone else?"

After thinking for a long time, Su Xinghe nodded heavily: "I listen to you. I will call him tomorrow and tell him that we both agree that he should stay in Yuanxin."

Qin Weimin is still leading a team in Jiangyin, responsible for simulating docking with PCL - his place 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, and Su Xinghe got up and was about to go home, when he suddenly remembered that this kid had a group he hadn't mentioned yet.

"By the way, what is there a group for? Who is in charge?"

Su Yuanshan smiled slightly: "Senior brother Tian Yaoming will be in charge. I will help him. We will try to produce two decoding chips for pagers in the shortest possible time."

Now Motorola is working with Inspur to develop decoding chips. The domestic pager encoding is the International Wireless Paging Standard Code No. 1. This set of encoding has a large address capacity, unlimited message sending, and is most suitable for Chinese. But in this era where Chinese character output still relies on Chinese cards, it is undoubtedly the best choice to develop a chip that focuses on Chinese encoding and directly insert it into the wireless paging station for in-situ upgrade.

As for Tian Yaoming, he is a second-year Ph.D. student majoring in electronic communications engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, and was also "borrowed" here.

Three teams, three legs.

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