Chapter 713 Developing EDA

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Shuguang brand telephones are now in short supply, and Shanghai Shuguang Communication Technology Co., Ltd. no longer produces Peng Hanka 2.0.

Jiangcheng Kunpeng Software Company also ordered a telephone production line from NEC Company. The price is US$20,000 cheaper than the one introduced by Shanghai Shuguang Communication Technology Company. Jiangcheng Kunpeng Software Company's production workshop will mainly produce Shuguang brand touch-tone phones after the Chinese New Year. Next week, one hundred people will be sent to Shanghai Shuguang Communication Technology Company for ten days of training.

Since the news that Peng OS1.0 will be released at the end of February, orders for Peng Hanka2.0 have dropped sharply.

Foreign computer giants such as IBM, Apple, Compaq, HP, AST, DEC, CBM, Fujitsu and Toshiba sent technicians to the demonstration hall of Kunpeng Software Company in Jiangcheng to demonstrate Peng OS1.0 in person, and they all fell in love with it. , wrote a professional investment report, the company's senior management discussed and decided, and ordered 163,500 units.

Jiangcheng Kunpeng Software Company will publish Peng WPS2.0, Peng ERP2.0, Peng Pinyin 3.0, Peng Print driv3.0, Peng ticket2.0 and Peng Play plane2.0 in "Computer World News" starting from February 11th large advertisements.

The wholesale price of Peng ERP2.0 is 1,888 yuan and the retail price is 2,188 yuan; the wholesale price of Peng ticket2.0 is 488 yuan and the retail price is 588 yuan.

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Guo Xinjun is the team leader, and Liu Xiaokun, Ye Jin and Liu Yan are the deputy team leaders. They are leading a hundred programmers to develop Peng EDA1.0 for Shanghai Guozhi Semiconductor Research Institute, which is also an important addition to the application environment of Peng OS1.0. tool software.

Kunpeng Software Research Institute now has 243 software engineers and programmers. Guo Xinjun, a Ph.D. in computer science from Huaqing University, and Liu Yan, a master's degree in semiconductors from Huaqing University, are two new recruits. The two are a pair of lovers. Guo Xinjun saw Liu Yan Designing chips on paper was very hard, so I came up with the idea of ​​developing a computer-aided chip design software for my girlfriend.

Calma, Computer Vision and Applicon kept pace with each other in the 1970s. After entering the 1980s, Mentor Graphics, Altium, Daisy, and Valid began to rise, and the EDA software they developed was included in the Batumi Agreement as technology projects that were not exported to China.

In order to break the technological blockade of Western countries and develop domestic integrated circuit enterprises, the Computer Research Institute of Huaqing University established an EDA research group in the early 1980s. Due to various reasons, there has been no research results so far.

Expedition developed by Mentor Graphics and Protel developed by Altium run in a DOS environment and have very low hardware requirements. They can run on the 1M memory of a hard disk-less 286 machine and have functions such as circuit schematic drawing and PCB design and wiring.

After graduating with his doctorate last year, Guo Xinjun stayed at the Computer Research Institute of Huaqing University as a software engineer, and Liu Yan stayed at the Semiconductor Research Institute of Huaqing University as an assistant engineer. They worked for less than two years. Even if they got married, they were not qualified to live in Tongzilou. See Kunpeng Software After the company's recruitment advertisement, the two resigned and came to Jiangcheng with their luggage.

Sun Jian was happy when he heard Guo Xinjun's development goals.

The editing software already has Peng WPS2.0, the spreadsheet software has Peng Excell1.0, the drawing software has Peng Photoshop1.0, the enterprise resource planning has ERP2.0, and the design chip software also has Peng EDA1.0.

EDA is known as the "Mother of Chips" and is the cornerstone industry of electronic design.

From the 1970s to the 1980s, circuit integration was not high (hundreds to thousands of transistors). Designers relied on manual input, layout, and wiring of circuit diagrams, and relied on manual drawing of transistor graphics (layout) on graph paper. Input it into the pattern generator and then use the "red film" method to make a photolithography plate.

In the mid-1970s, programmable logic technology appeared. Developers tried to automate the entire design project and were no longer satisfied with completing photolithography mask drawings. The main functions of CAD during this period were interactive graphics editing and transistor-level layout. Design, layout and routing, design rule checking, gate-level circuit simulation and verification, etc. People use computer-aided design to let the computer check the unreasonable places in the design instead of people. The designer only needs to operate on the key nodes. This technology is electronic design automation (EDA).

In the future, CPU chips will integrate hundreds of millions of transistors. If engineers do not use EDA tools and rely solely on manual circuit design and drawing, then engineers will inevitably be exhausted to the point of collapse.

Once the Chinese version of Peng EDA1.0 is successfully developed, Shanghai Guozhi Semiconductor Research Institute will be even more powerful and quickly occupy the domestic EDA market and become the industry standard for domestic chip design and production!

Foreign semiconductor companies that want to enter the country can only use Peng EDA1.0 that is compatible with Peng OS!

Peng EDA1.0 will also enter the European and American markets and compete with companies such as Expedition and Protel for market share.

Li Guoliang and Chen Zhimin used Expedition 2.0 in the United States, but due to the ban, they did not take it on the plane.

Sun Jian instructed Yu Jianguo to buy five sets of ExpediTIo 2.0 and five sets of Protel 1.0 from Xiangjiang, give four sets to Li Guoliang and Chen Zhimin, and give six sets to Guo Xinjun and the project team for reference.

Xiangjiang is the bridgehead for China to communicate with the world. It is not illegal for individuals to use genuine Expedition 2.0 and Protel 1.0.

Guo Xinjun, Li Guoliang and Chen Zhimin respectively taught Yan Yuanchao, Liu Xiaokun, Ye Jin and members of the project team about their experience in using Expedition.

In terms of software development capabilities, Yan Yuanchao is no match for Liu Xiaokun or Ye Jin!

Liu Xiaokun, Ye Jin and other project team members collectively studied Expedition and Protel carefully for a week before starting to learn Verilog HDL.

Verilog HDL is a hardware description language developed on the basis of C language. It was written by Phil Moorby of GDA Company at the end of 1983. It comes from C language. It is easy to learn and use, and the programming style is flexible and concise.

Guo Xinjun took out the EDA software development process and more than a thousand lines of code written for more than half a year. Liu Yan introduced the basic process and verification method of designing a chip. Liu Xiaokun and Ye Jin, who are familiar with circuit diagram design and PCB, immediately understood it and sat in front of the computer. , shaking his hands, lines of code turned out.

There is a day outside the sky!

Dr. Guo Xinjun was amazed and felt ashamed. Liu Xiaokun and Ye Jin, who graduated from technical secondary schools, were indeed hailed as software geniuses by Mr. Sun. They came to the right place. They could not write it in several years just by themselves!

In order to develop the domestic integrated circuit industry and lift the technological blockade of EDA in Western countries, the country organized in the previous life developed a Panda EDA and won the first prize for scientific and technological progress, but it is not clear in what year it was developed? But I heard that as soon as Panda EDA came on the market, the Batumi Organization lifted the technical blockade. Western EDA companies entered the country and sold them at low prices. The technical performance was no match for Western companies. Chip designers were unwilling to use it and were struggling. There was no application environment. It accounts for less than 5% of the market share.

In the past life, high-end EDA, like EUV lithography machines, was also strangled by the United States.

Today I have not heard of a national organization developing EDA.

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Kunpeng Software Research Institute is bustling with people and full of vitality.

The twenty-eight well-decorated houses reserved for the company headquarters guest house and Spark Garden are now overcrowded, and a seven-story singles dormitory is under construction in the yard.

In order to properly accommodate software engineers and PhD masters who join the company, Xinghuo Garden Community has started the construction of four talent buildings in the second phase, and 224 sets of 70, 80 and 100 square meters of finely decorated housing.

Build a nest to attract phoenixes!

Software engineers are treated the same as those with a doctorate. They need to work for two years for a master's degree, five years for a bachelor's degree, and ten years for an ordinary worker.

Employees with special talents and significant contributions are excepted!

Sun Jian equipped the Peng EDA1.0 project team with one hundred IBM386 computers.