Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1211 EDA
In fact, when China arrived in 1988, the output of integrated circuits had just exceeded 1 million. According to the general standards at that time, the annual output of integrated circuits in a country reached 1 million, marking the beginning of industrialized production. The United States took the lead in 1966. Japan reached it in 1968, and China started to manufacture its first integrated circuit in 1965, and it took 1 long years to reach this standard line.

According to the information provided by the Japanese side, the production line introduced by Duan Yun has a daily output of about 1.5 chips. However, considering that Flash memory chips are a brand new product and the production process is difficult, Duan Yun lowered this standard. We will strive to produce 1 Flash memory chips per day by the beginning of next year.

"1 yuan a day, more than 300 million yuan a year, nearly 400 million yuan, can we really sell all the chips in our factory?" Huang Lingyi said worriedly at this time.

Generally speaking, the production and sales of products have nothing to do with researchers like them, and it is not something they should consider, but Huang Lingyi still couldn't help asking.

Huang Lingyi actually didn't care much about the production and sales of the chip industry in the past, but the fact that the Chinese Academy of Sciences canceled the research and development of chips because of the lack of market economy potential made her still fresh in her memory, and it also sounded a wake-up call for her, that is, the research and development of chips We must never leave the market, especially for private companies like Duanyun Chip Factory. Once the chips are produced and cannot be sold, a series of catastrophic chain reactions will follow, such as bankruptcy of the company, cancellation of R&D projects, and then they develop these chips. Workers will face the embarrassing situation of unemployment again.

So when she heard that Duan Yun was going to set the production target of the chip factory, she couldn't help asking him about the market prospect of the chip.

"We have already signed a cooperation agreement with ZTE Semiconductor Corporation. They are responsible for the development of caller ID recording phones. The core component is the chip of our factory. Everyone should know about this..." Duan Yun paused, and then said: "In addition, our Tianyin Electronics Factory is preparing to produce a repeater, which is to add a voice memory module to the ordinary Walkman, and the core components also use our flash chip..."

"Repeater?"

Hearing Duan Yun say this word, several people present were stunned for a moment, they had never heard of this product before.

"This kind of repeater is mainly used for learning foreign languages, because when many students are learning a foreign language, they can only be realized by continuous rewinding when they are not reading words, which will cause a lot of damage to the tape recorder. , you can easily realize the voice interaction function..." Duan Yun smiled slightly, and then said: "I registered a patent for this product in Hong Kong years ago, but it has not been produced. I plan to put the chip factory into production next year. Afterwards, part of the flash memory chips produced by our chip factory will be used in this product. In addition, I plan to cooperate with other domestic manufacturers to develop more new products based on our factory's flash chips. So everyone There is no need to worry about the problem that the chips cannot be sold after being produced.”

"Uh." Hearing what Duan Yun said, everyone present immediately relaxed.

In fact, they are also worried that the chips will not be sold after they are produced. Before the country invested heavily in the introduction of dozens of chip production lines from abroad, most of them were not put into production in the end. The smuggling of components has caused difficulties for domestic chip factories, and few can survive.

"The main task of our current R&D center is to design a new generation of NAND flash memory chips according to the plan I proposed before, and strive to completely replace the first-generation flash memory chips designed by Toshiba within one year. This task is very important. Everyone There must be a sense of urgency." Duan Yun said seriously.

The so-called NAND flash memory is actually an upgraded version of Toshiba's flash memory chip. In 1988, Intel launched the first 1KB flash memory chip based on Toshiba's Flash technology concept. This type of flash memory chip is called NOR. In 256, Hitachi The company developed the first NANR flash memory chip, and soon NANR flash memory replaced the NOR flash memory chip developed by Intel.

The write cycle of NAND flash memory is 10 times faster than that of NOR flash memory, and its read, write and delete speeds are also faster than NOR flash memory. The storage unit of NANR flash memory is only half the size of NOR flash memory. Due to the excellent performance of NAND flash memory chips, it is used in many brands of memory cards, and the appearance of this flash memory directly promotes the invention of solid-state hard disks. Solid-state hard disks are based on flash memory and add control circuits. , so that the data can remain after being read until it is finally deleted. The solid-state hard drive uses solid-state memory to store data permanently, with strong shock resistance, low noise, and shorter reading time and delay time.

Duan Yun asked Huang Lingyi and the others to develop an upgraded version of the NAND flash memory chip based on the Japanese flash chip. Although Duan Yun did not have a chip background before, he knew the design principle and basic structure of this kind of NAND chip, so he asked Huang Lingyi and the others to learn from it. The flash memory chip technical drawings provided by Toshiba, as well as the ideas provided by Duan Yun, strive to develop the world's first NAND flash memory chip before Hitachi.

"Do you have any questions?" Duan Yun asked.

"Manager Duan, and as we said in the workshop before, the research institute urgently needs a software for chip development. We used to draw manually when we were at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but now the chip design is becoming more and more complicated. For three-dimensional drawing, the CAD and 3D max used before are too complicated to operate, which seriously affects the efficiency of chip development..." Huang Lingyi said suddenly.

"Didn't you already use EDA software in the Chinese Academy of Sciences? Didn't you copy a copy back?" Duan Yun asked.

"The data of our research institute cannot be taken out casually, and the EDA software used before was purchased from the United States and embedded in a special memory card, it is impossible to copy..." Huang Lingyi said.

"I will find a way to solve this matter later, and help you solve it as soon as possible." Duan Yun nodded, and then asked: "By the way, Mr. Huang, do you know where we can buy this kind of software in China?"

"Zhongguancun sells a lot of software, but software like EDA is too niche to buy, and it is said that the price is also very expensive..." Huang Lingyi said after thinking for a while.

"I have an idea, can you contact the former leaders of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and ask them to sell this software to us, the price is easy to negotiate!" Duan Yun raised his eyebrows and said.

(End of this chapter)