Is it normal for a top student with an EQ of 20 to create a chip?

Chapter 27 The professor personally invited you, but you won’t go? (Seeking for further reading)

After Luo Yao got the bank card, he had no intention of touching it.

He only has 50 yuan now. According to ordinary people's thinking, if he has such spare money, he must want to invest it. Generally, there are two options, besides buying funds or buying stocks.

He can now predict that the stocks in the chip industry will rise in the near future, but this is not important, because he knows that the core technology he now masters is more valuable.

Being a retail investor is worse than being a banker. Luo Yao definitely wants the most efficient way to make money.

Luo Yao actually still had more than 3000 yuan on hand that he had saved all along. The Luo family had just come to Dongcheng for the first time. Luo Yao planned to keep the 50 yuan in his card for emergency use.

It was only seven o'clock now, so Luo Yao decided not to go back to the dormitory yet, and turned around and went straight to the library.

The homework left by Xia Qing was very simple for Luo Yao. It was like Luo Yao had the ability to build skyscrapers, but others asked him to make bricks.

Luo Yao didn't care about the IP core work. He followed his own plan and began to continue typing his code.

The library is convenient for everything, but he cannot set up the development environment on a public computer.

The only thing that needs to be solved now is to build a reliable development environment.

If you just type code without setting up a development environment, then important tools such as compilers, debuggers, unit tests, and automated tests will not be available.

Moreover, to develop EDA now, the computing power of the computer must not be too bad. It is still possible to type code on the library computer, but when it comes to distributed simulation or layout and routing modules, the computer here must be stuck to the point of doubting life.

Luo Yao realized that he needed to find a new place to develop his EDA.

Eastern Institute of Technology is a research-oriented university, and there should be many majors that require strong computing power.

Luo Yao checked online and found out that there was a supercomputing experimental training center in the school.He picked up his phone and sent a text message to Xia Qing.

[Professor Xia, I would like to apply to use the school’s supercomputing system. 】

After Xia Qing heard the text message ringtone, she didn't pay attention at first.

People who use text messages these days are either e-commerce operators or fraudsters.

Xia Qing basically didn't bother to look.

But soon, the text message ring rang again.

Xia Qing thought, picked up her phone, and then saw two text messages from Luo Yao.

[Professor Xia, I would like to apply to use the school’s supercomputing system. 】

【I am Luo Yao. 】

It was the first time Xia Qing met a student who was sending text messages. As soon as he met him, he saw Luo Yao's unusual request.

She remembered that the homework she assigned should not require a supercomputer based on their level.

Why did Luo Yao come to apply?

Could Luo Yao have another surprise for himself?

Xia Qing actually wanted to include Luo Yao in his research project to participate in scientific research practice and let him start from the basics. In this way, Luo Yao would be promoted faster than if he had stayed in school.

After Xia Qing was silent for a few seconds, he readily gave Luo Yao his account number and password, and took the opportunity to ask Luo Yao about his intentions.

[You can use it for free for [-] hours every month, which is enough for you. 】

[Also, are you interested in joining the teacher’s research project?The research direction is general-purpose chips and basic software. 】

After Luo Yao received the text message, he thought that Teacher Xia Qing's research direction was indeed good, but there was no doubt that it was a single study and could not bring qualitative changes to the chip industry.

What he wants to develop now is a complete set of EDA. This is a move that can affect the entire chip industry chain. It is clear at a glance who is less important and who is more important.

Now that he has joined Professor Xia's project, Luo Yao knows that his position is definitely that of a handyman.

It was okay to join the project, but it was absolutely impossible for him to do odd jobs, so Luo Yao quickly replied.

[I will not participate for the time being. 】

Before Xia Qing read the text message, she thought Luo Yao would agree, but she didn't expect that the other party would refuse.

She was not happy to know how many students wanted to join her program, but when it was her turn to invite them, Luo Yao rejected them.

Xia Qing, who was rejected by a student for the first time, felt both funny and helpless.

It seems that Luo Yao is still too young and doesn't know what this means.

Xia Qing actually just made a preliminary agreement with Huaji today to develop EDA software.

Huaji is now facing a dilemma. The major foundries currently cooperating with Huaji are all controlled by foreign EDA manufacturers.

One day they used software upgrades to limit usage, and tomorrow they said there was a problem with the activation code system and couldn't be used. As a result, Huaji's chip foundries were led by others.

China focuses on the research and development of wafers and lithography machines, but does not invest much in the research and development of EDA. This has led to Huaji's current passive situation.

Once the chip foundry shuts down, Huaji, as a downstream customer in the chip industry chain, will be 100% affected.

Nowadays, mature EDA software is concentrated in Scaron. If the EDA manufacturers in Scaron misbehave and do not authorize Huaji's foundry to use EDA software, Huaji will obviously have no chips available.

Being at the end of the food chain, you can only be manipulated by others.

Because of this, Huaji wants to start independently developing a complete set of EDA software.

Developing a complete set of EDA software is not something that can be solved overnight, but if we can start now, it is progress.To establish a new research institute, it is necessary to recruit people, and Xia Qing is preparing to announce the recruitment decision in the school.

That night, Xia Qing issued a notice, saying that she would recruit 1-3 outstanding students from freshmen majoring in microelectronics to join her new project. The recruitment requirement was to complete her latest project assignment.

As soon as the news came out, students from the three departments majoring in microelectronics became excited.

Microelectronics major group.

"Youfeng Yiye: If you can go to Professor Xia's project, it will be a bright road after graduation!"

"Wangzi, who is deficient in calcium: I want to go! But the latest assignment was very difficult, and I had to design an IP core!"

"Hey Damazha: Is your project also an IP core?"

"Calcium-deficient Wangzi: It seems that all three of our departments are dealing with this topic, and the pressure of competition has instantly increased!"

"Dinosaurs resist the waves: There are more than 200 people competing for those spots. How lucky you are to get selected!"

"Tank 6: What is the IP core?"

Everyone was having a heated discussion in the group, and Luo Yao went to the school's supercomputing experimental training center alone to start his formal development work.

I have to say that Luo Yao benefited a lot from Xia Qing's advice today, and Luo Yao gained a deeper understanding of the technology provided by the system.

The graphical user interface, circuit modeling, layout design, timing analysis, simulation and verification modules in EDA were all clearly displayed in front of him like puzzle pieces marked with numerical order.

Now, he just needs to place the puzzle pieces piece by piece in numerical order.

The time soon came to 09:30. When Wu Tianming saw that Luo Yao had not returned home, he called him to ask about his situation. Luo Yao looked at the time and decided to go back to the dormitory first.

In order to facilitate the research groups in the school to research topics, the entire Supercomputing Experimental Training Center will actually be open all night.

Of course Luo Yao wanted to develop EDA all night, but he was not a robot and could not sleep, so he planned to go back to sleep first and come back early tomorrow morning.

When he returned to the dormitory, Wang Ye couldn't wait to tell Luo Yao that Xia Qing would select 1-3 freshmen to enter her project.

Wang Ye could tell that Luo Yao still admired Xia Qing a little bit, otherwise Luo Yao would never have listened with all his attention when Xia Qing and Luo Yao were coaching alone today.

He thought that after telling Luo Yao about the selection, Luo Yao would be interested, but what he didn't expect was that Luo Yao said: "Well, I know, Professor Xia told me."

Wang Ye froze on the spot, his eyes widened: "Did Professor Xia tell you personally?"

"Tianming, look at what kind of treatment this is. We only found out about this after sending a group notification, and Professor Xia actually told him alone!"

Tianming still held a textbook on integrated circuit EDA technology in his hand, and now he sighed when he heard this.

"Santu is better than us in self-study. Professor Xia Qing will definitely accept him. By the way, Santu, when will you start the project?"

"I didn't say I was going."

"What?!" Wu Tianming and Wang Ye were both confused. The professor personally invited you but if you don't go, are you going crazy? !
Wang Ye walked up to Luo Yao, and when Luo Yao wasn't paying attention, he reached out and put his palm on his forehead.

"This child doesn't have a fever, why is he still talking nonsense?"

Luo Yao shrank his head back in discomfort and said expressionlessly: "I was not sick in the first place. What I want to do now is more valuable to me than joining Professor Xia's project, so not going is the best option." The right choice."

"Hey, you are so young, why do you have such a loud voice? Just say this in front of us, don't say it outside, otherwise Professor Xia will be unhappy if someone snitches in front of him."

Professor Xia will be unhappy?
This aroused Luo Yao's interest.

"Why is Professor Xia unhappy?"

It would be a bit silly for most people to ask this question, but Wu Tianming and Wang Ye knew that Luo Yao really didn't know.

For a person whose mind is filled only with knowledge and academics, he will never take the time to understand the complex psychology of a person who is belittled by his students.

"It feels like if your mother cooked a dish and said it was not delicious when we went to eat it, your mother would definitely be unhappy after hearing this."

Wu Tianming found the simplest and clearest example to explain to Luo Yao.

After Luo Yao heard this, he thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, I understand, I won't say such things in front of Professor Xia."

After Luo Yao finished speaking, he was ready to wash up and go to bed.

Wang Ye glanced at Wu Tianming, and then said to Luo Yao: "Santu, I don't understand something related to IP core. Can you tell me about it."

Luo Yao was about to go to the balcony to get toiletries. After hearing what Wang Ye said, he turned around and asked Wang Ye: "Only a small part of you don't understand?"

Wang Ye chuckled and said shamelessly: "I don't understand them all."

……

Luo Yao felt that he had never seen such a confident person who said he didn't understand anything.

"Santu, I don't know much about it either." Wu Tianming thought he couldn't miss the opportunity, and hurriedly kept up with Wang Ye's rhythm, and made a miserable show of his brother who was two years younger than them.

Ps This article is fictitious and has nothing to do with reality. The main country/family names and origins in the article are:
Schiron: famous character in ancient Greek mythology

Wan Yin Guo: Wan Yin き

Basaka: the man in bearskin
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