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

Chapter 41 Why should we show mercy? (Seeking for further reading)

Sanhua Company is located in Fuzhou, and Rao Huiling set out there early in the morning with Yu Bei, Luo Yao and others.

As soon as they landed, they saw Mr. Lin from Dongtou driving his car to pick them up.

Mr. Lin is indeed a veteran who has been in the mall for more than 20 years. After meeting Hua Ji's group, he did not mention what happened before.

When he saw the person, he briefly exchanged greetings and then got straight to the point and said, "Mr. Rao, Mr. Yu, are you sure your EDA can be used?"

"Our own factories are already using it."

Hua Kee's traditional business style is to use it first, and then promote it when it is ready for personal use.

After completing the data migration, Haixin, a chip manufacturing plant owned by Huaji, started taking action, using ready-made logic diagrams and circuit layout diagrams.

The user interface designed by Luo Yao is simple and clear, which greatly reduces the learning cost threshold for draftsmen.

It is easy to use and smooth, especially the power consumption analysis tools, photolithography OPC and other modules can completely beat Synopsys. This is the real experience reported by chip plotters.

"Mr. Lin, you will know after you try it." Rao Huiling's confidence came from Luo Yao. If Luo Yao's software could not meet her requirements, she would never dare to be so confident.

Although Pangu EDA can be promoted by Huaji through finding connections, as a tool, if it is not recognized by users, the result of the push will be in vain.

Whether Pangu EDA can survive depends entirely on the market.

"Okay, let's go right away. Zhao Pei from Sanhua hasn't had a good sleep these days. After something happened, Zhao Pei called me to find a solution."

"I really didn't expect that Synopsys would cause trouble to Sanhua because of the complaint."

"It seems that you were right before. What these foreigners see is always greater profits. They are so unkind!"

Rao Huiling and Yu Bei felt a little irritated by Mr. Lin's words. They thought the gringo was so good, so who else could they cheat him with?

Luo Yao glanced at Mr. Lin and said in confusion: "Why do you have to be polite?"

"Companies like Synopsys are actually betting that Chinese companies will not dare to break up with them."

"Chinese companies have to rely on them to survive and cannot survive independently. Based on this alone, the other party can easily control the price."

"If you think the other party doesn't dare, that's because you think you are the consumer."

"You guys admire the idea that the customer is God, but only God has mercy. Isn't it normal for companies like Synopsys to be there?"

"Are you not smart enough to see it?"

Rao Huiling and Yu Bei wanted to laugh.

God, God has mercy, but companies like Synopsys don’t!

Although Luo Yao's complaints are irritating, they are telling the truth!

Talking about friendship with a group of hungry wolves is either stupid or stupid!
Is it possible that we still expect foreign companies like Synopsys to lend a hand in view of the plight of Chinese chip companies that have not developed? !

Mr. Lin's face was extremely colorful, sometimes red and sometimes white. He had never felt so distressed.

Unfortunately, he couldn't find the words to refute.

Mudd!What on earth is this boy here to do!

Finally arriving at the destination, the tormented Mr. Lin got out of the car first.

Rao Huiling took this opportunity to say to Luo Yao: "You said again that Mr. Lin is stupid and you want to deduct your salary."

Luo Yao blinked and said seriously: "But I remember last time you asked me not to mention the sentence 'How could he become a senior executive if he is so stupid' in front of Mr. Lin? I didn't mention it just now, so the conditions for salary deduction are Not constituted.”

You need evidence when doing things. What can you say if you don’t have evidence?

In any case, Rao Huiling didn't really want to deduct Luo Yao's salary, so she immediately told him not to mention it again.

Arriving at Sanhua Company.

The entire office building was extremely quiet, without any human presence, and it looked like an empty building.

A thin and haggard woman came out with a few people.

After the two parties introduced each other, everyone knew that the woman was Zhao Pei, the general manager of Sanhua.

"Mr. Rao and Mr. Yu, you have also seen that we have temporarily suspended work and cannot complete all the orders on hand. Now foreign orders want us to cancel the orders. If this continues, we really can't hold on."

"We originally planned to purchase Cadence and Siemens, but the two parties have never made an agreement and it seems they don't want to cooperate with us."

"Today is the fifth year of the company, is it going to fall into my hands?" Zhao Pei said with a hint of crying in her voice. She couldn't afford to wait now. One more day of waiting would mean another day of losses.

If the losses continue, Sanhua may declare bankruptcy.

Rao Huiling walked over and comforted: "Mr. Zhao, don't get excited yet. We have brought the EDA and can test it on site."

"Come with me here." Although Zhao Pei also had doubts in his heart and felt that the self-developed EDA was unreliable, he could only treat a dead horse as a living horse.

When they came to the drawing room, they saw five people tinkering there.

"No, all functions cannot be used, and pass verification cannot be bypassed."

"Then what should we do! Nothing can be used. Are we going to lose our jobs? It won't be until the end of the year..."

Before they could finish speaking, Zhao Pei walked in: "No one will lose their job. I will try my best to ensure that you all."

The five people stood up in a hurry and called out "Mr. Zhao" embarrassedly.

"Now we are going to install new EDA software. You will cooperate with Mr. Rao in testing." New EDA software?

The draftsman saw doubts in the other party's eyes. Could it be that he purchased Cadence's EDA?

Hasn't Cadence not confirmed the cooperation yet?

"Mr. Rao, do you have any computer configuration requirements?" Zhao Pei asked worriedly.

"A general graphics computer will do. There are no special requirements." After speaking, Rao Huiling turned to Luo Yao.

"Luo Yao, you will install and debug the equipment. The other draftsmen will prepare the logic diagram and circuit layout diagram first."

The two draftsmen ran to get the drawings. When they came over, they saw Luo Yao opening the EDA interface, and they became surprised.

"Pangu? What kind of EDA is this? Is it a new version released by Cadence?"

Luo Yao ignored the two draftsmen and continued to debug his.

"This is the EDA software developed by our company. You guys try it first." In order to protect Luo Yao's safety, Rao Huiling could not tell the other party that the developer of Pangu was Luo Yao. These people have not received confidentiality training. Who knows if it will happen? Leaks.

"By the way, how long does it take you to draw this set of pictures?"

"About a day." A draftsman replied while looking at Pangu's operation interface.

"It's too long. On Pangu, you only need about two hours to finish it." Luo Yao glanced at the logic diagram and circuit layout diagram in the other person's hand, and thought to himself, how could a memory chip last so long?
two hours.

This is definitely bragging.

Some people in the room couldn't help but have this idea.

They all looked at Luo Yao and couldn't help but wonder how reliable he was.

"A project document is very large when opened, and power consumption and other tests need to be performed. The EDA software cannot respond very quickly!" an inspector retorted.

"You'll know after you try it." Luo Yao said expressionlessly.

The inspectors looked at Zhao Pei. Zhao Pei knew that she had no choice. There were so many people waiting to start working to support their families, so they nodded: "Start drawing."

When the draftsman saw that Zhao Pei agreed, he immediately started drawing.

One of the draftsmen sat in front of the computer and knew how to operate it after looking at Pangu's interface.

According to the drawings, she continuously dragged the components to be used to the engineering interface, then placed them in various locations, and then wired them.

An hour has passed.

After all the lines were drawn, the draftsman quickly opened power consumption and other testing tools and started testing.

After waiting for almost half a minute, the test results were already out!

"How could it be so fast?"

"Even Synopsys' detection speed has never been so fast!" The draftsmen gathered around the computer and marveled.

Behind them, Zhao Pei and Mr. Lin were already stunned.

The entire system is as smooth as if it was installed on a new computer, and the detection tools are so fast that it is hard to believe that Pangu EDA really tested the entire engineering design!

"Xiao Li, are the test results correct now?" Zhao Pei walked forward anxiously and asked.

"Mr. Zhao, everything is right. This circuit diagram is actually from the first generation of LP. It was drawn with Synopsys at that time. The results detected by Synopsys at that time were also the same, but the strange thing is..."

Zhao Pei asked nervously: "What's weird?"

"Pangu EDA measured the power consumption ratio. Synopsys found one more problem, the signal flip rate."

"Synopsys did not discover the signal flip rate problem at the time, which resulted in the HCI effect in the first generation of LP. The aging time of the integrated circuit was ten times faster than we expected."

"So we also recalled LP's first-generation chips at that time."

"Look, there are records of this accident in the system." Xiao Li said, opening the computer nearby and calling up the fault records of the first generation of LP.

Everyone went over to take a look, and sure enough they found that it recorded the problem of HCI effect in the first generation of LP.

"In other words, Pangu EDA's power consumption detection tool is more powerful than Synopsys!"

After Zhao Pei came to the conclusion, he quickly took Rao Huiling's hand and said, "Mr. Rao, was Pangu EDA independently developed by you?"

Rao Huiling glanced at Luo Yao, who was standing next to the computer and observing the situation, and said with some pride: "It was developed by our people. The architecture and algorithms are all independently developed and have nothing to do with the EDA of the three giants."

Zhao Pei couldn't hide her excitement. She walked to the draftsmen and confirmed the situation with them again and again, and said, "Mr. Rao, let's produce a batch of chips on a small scale to see how things go. I wonder how much you charge for your EDA software?"

"A one-time purchase or a monthly plan?"

Rao Huiling remembered that this matter had not been discussed with Luo Yao, so she took Luo Yao out of Sanhua's building on the pretext of calling the headquarters to inquire.

"Luo Yao, Mr. Zhao is very satisfied with Pangu now. He should be Pangu's first official customer."

"How are you going to set the price?"

"I don't care about this." Luo Yao thought to himself that Huaji has given 2 million as a reward, and the franchise fee for the official agent will definitely not be lower than this.

“However, Pangu’s pricing is definitely lower than that of the three EDA giants.”

"We want all chip companies in China to use our own software!"

(End of this chapter)