The Light of Domestic Products: The whole world begs me to sell

Chapter 218 EDA projects that cost money.

As the person in charge of Phoenix Group's semiconductors, Director Zhang doesn't know much about semiconductor expertise.

but.

This does not prevent him from being able to make the department run reasonably well.

Whether it is the semiconductor department in charge, the IT computer department, or even the Phoenix bicycle department, he has always pursued that professional things should be done by professional people, and he never dictates professionally.

It was also because of his recognition of his position and the earnest advice of professionals that he managed several departments in an orderly manner.

this day.

He came to work at Phoenix Semiconductor after finishing other departmental affairs. As soon as he arrived at the office, he received a strange request for a visit.

Today's factory manager Zhang is already a powerful figure in the Phoenix Group. On weekdays, many spare parts suppliers and some companies that want to cooperate with Phoenix come to visit.

He took the information handed over by the secretary, took a quick look, and immediately became interested.

"Independently developed EDA industrial electronic design automation software?!"

Director Zhang is quite interested. Although he doesn't know much about semiconductor expertise, he also knows what EDA software is.

Simply put, EDA software is a computer software specially used for chip design.

It is like drawing software such as Photshop and CAD, which uses computer-aided design software.

Before the emergence of EDA automation software, the previous chip design was manually drawn by designers, and the design and wiring of integrated circuits were manually completed.

However, with the development of the chip industry, the circuit design of the chip has become more and more complex, and the number of transistors inside the chip has also increased geometrically. At this time, it is obviously impossible to design by hand.

Therefore, at this time, EDA software also appeared with the development of the chip industry. After decades of development, EDA software has become very mature.

It is no exaggeration to say that an excellent and mature EDA software can not only improve the efficiency of chip design, but also greatly help the performance of chip design.

Unfortunately.

Mature EDA software is accompanied by the development of chips, which has led to the monopoly of all mature EDA software on the market by foreign countries.

All chip design companies need to spend money to obtain authorization if they want to use the EDA software of these companies.

Even more annoyed, even if you spend money, you will admit it.

Such as Snoypsys, they even only provide detailed chip design services for large enterprises such as Samsung and TSMC. Their latest IP design and latest technology are all given priority to use by Samsung and TSMC!

And domestic chip design companies...

Sorry, it’s good to authorize you to use the software, and want one-on-one tutoring?Still want to use the latest technology?You are thinking about farting!
As a result, domestic chip companies that are not considered leading in the field of design cannot get detailed communication at all, and without technical support from EDA software vendors, many chip companies have to do some conservative designs on chips for the sake of tape-out costs.

You must know that the more advanced the chip, the more it needs the joint promotion of EDA software manufacturers and chip design teams, so as to have better chip performance and reduce the number of tape-outs.

And once their EDA software is not used, or is prohibited from being authorized, they can only use two or three generations of domestic backward software for development and design, and some manufacturers can only be forced to stop new product development.

Of course, the Phoenix Group has little influence.

Although Phoenix was included in the "Entity List" because of the sales ban, the DEA software authorization was stopped by Snoypsys.

However, Phoenix Group has not been in the semiconductor industry for a long time, and has never had much demand for chip design. The finished chip developed is also the finished design provided by Hu Lai.

That is to say, Phoenix Semiconductor is currently modifying the Longteng 280J chip, and has to use the domestic "Hua Da Jiu Tian" EDA software...

but.

According to feedback from the design department, the product is indeed not as mature as Snoypsys...

Director Zhang thought about it, and the contents of the visiting materials really made him a little interested. The visiting person hoped that the EDA project he developed would be invested or acquired by the Phoenix Group!
"EDA software is indeed a technology that Phoenix Group is stuck in. We can really try to promote the development of EDA software."

"As for whether it can be successful, that has to be done."

After quickly clearing things up in his mind, Director Zhang ordered:
"Secretary Wang, take him to my office and meet him!"

"Ok."

……

soon.

Under the leadership of Secretary Wang, a boy with the appearance of a college student, a pair of glasses, and some pimples on his face walked into the office of Director Zhang.

Factory Manager Zhang stood up politely, poured a glass of water himself, then looked at the man with a smile and said:

"Jiang Hang? Graduated from QH University, master's degree from Stanford?"

"I saw your project. Are you engaged in an EDA software project, and you hope to get investment from our Phoenix Group?"

Jiang Hang seemed a little cramped, sitting on the sofa with his back straight.

Hearing Director Zhang speak, he replied:
"Mr. Zhang, it's not me. Our team developed an EDA software."

After saying this, Jiang Hang seemed to relax a bit, looked at Director Zhang, and explained the reason.

"Mr. Zhang, I saw an exclusive interview with Mr. Hu of our Phoenix Group through the "Face to Face" column of GF TV a few days ago. Mr. Hu said in the TV interview that Phoenix Group is willing to purchase as long as it is a product that Yanguo chip company has achieved results. "

"so."

"Our team and I have considered it for a few days, and finally decided to contact our Phoenix Group first. Although our current EDA software is not yet mature, we are still confident to do it well!"

The sincere words and the appearance of a college student doubled the goodwill of Director Zhang.

Director Zhang nodded and said with a smile:

"Then tell me, what are the advantages of your EDA software project?!"

"Or, why do you have the confidence to do well?"

When Jiang Hang heard it, he also knew that Zhang was always thinking about himself, and regardless of whether the director Zhang could understand, he turned on the laptop in his hand, and then opened the designed EDA software:

"Mr. Zhang, the development direction of EDA is actually nothing more than the optimization of algorithms and architecture. The design direction of our EDA software is to make the first integrated EDA in China..."

"We wrote a brand-new design framework concept, adopted an integrated design, and integrated circuit design and simulation tools, pcb design software, ic design software, and pld design tools on the market into EDA software, and truly opened up from the inside of the software. Internal logic..."

Director Zhang could barely understand the first few sentences, but as Jiang Hang introduced more and more details, the smile on Director Zhang's face faded, revealing a serious look.

but.

After not listening to a few words, Director Zhang interrupted Jiang Hang.

Director Zhang once again insisted that professional people do professional things, and without delaying each other's time, he simply took Jiang Hang directly to the office of Manager Zhou, the technical director of Phoenix Semiconductor Design Department.

When Director Zhang introduced Jiang Hang's reason for coming, Manager Zhou was a little surprised.

"Boss Jiang, are you serious?"

"The first domestically-made integrated EDA software? A framework design concept completely different from synopsys? Get through the logic from the inside of the software?"

"You know what you said, not only the Huada Jiutian we use in China can't reach it, even the EDA giant synopsys doesn't have such a function!"

"Can your newly designed EDA software achieve it?"

Manager Zhou was surprised and doubtful. On the contrary, Jiang Hang was not as nervous as when he first arrived. He simply put the notebook he brought with him on the desk and pushed it towards Manager Zhou.

"There is EDA software developed by our team in the computer, you can try it."

Seeing that Manager Zhou started to try curiously, Jiang Hang also began to explain:

"Our design concept is integrated EDA, so you can easily transfer various designs in the software, such as PCB and PCV, to simulation testing, which is not available in other software."

"In addition to the integrated design concept, we have also developed a full-scenario design mode, which can realize the full-scenario connection from design to testing, and also developed a port for chip design to intervene in cloud servers and cloud computing!"

While he was talking, Manager Zhou was testing.

cloud computing?
Realized the design on the cloud, using cloud computing power to design chips?
Manager Zhou frowned, and when he found Jiang Hang paused, he interjected:
"There is an AI Cloud had module left on your software, did you also design a port for AI artificial intelligence design?"

"Not only can chip design be directly designed through the powerful computing power of cloud computing, but also AI intelligent design can be realized?"

Jiang Hang nodded:
"Yes, from the very beginning, we didn't intend to die on the algorithm and architecture optimization that was approaching the bottleneck. We directly based the chip design on cloud computing and cloud servers."

"It can be said that we can use as much computing power as the cloud computing power in the future. In other words, the computing power of our EDA is unlimited..."

"Moreover, we also retain the concept of AI intelligent design. If there is a good AI intelligent algorithm in the future, we can easily extend the AI ​​intelligent algorithm into the software."

"We know that Phoenix has obtained a large amount of computing power through individual users of Phoenix Computer, and Phoenix Group is also the number one enterprise in China in terms of AI artificial intelligence, which will be of great help to us in realizing AI artificial intelligence design chips in the future. The reason why our team contacted the Phoenix Group."

As soon as the words fell, the director Zhang beside him couldn't help laughing secretly.

A few days ago, he and Mr. Hu were worried that Phoenix's "shared computing power" would not be consumed by the project. They did not expect that after the "wind tunnel simulation test software", there would be another EDA cloud chip design.

Even, if this EDA software is done well, it can completely bind the software and cloud computing power to provide external services like "wind tunnel software".

He was thinking about the scale of Phoenix Computer today.

Unknowingly, the number of Phoenix computers has almost exceeded 800 million. With the continuous sales of Phoenix computers, the computing power that Phoenix Group can have in the future will be incalculable.

Factory Manager Zhang was thinking about the future computing power of the Phoenix Group, but it was unbelievable that Jiang Hang's words fell into Manager Zhou's ears.

Cloud computing + AI intelligent design...

It is no exaggeration to say that this is the design direction of EDA software in the next 20 years...

Manager Zhou knows in his heart that EDA software is not only for design, but also for testing, programming, simulation, verification and other functions, all of which require very powerful computing power.

In the future, EDA software will have very high requirements for computing power. Nowadays, there are very few domestic teams that can consider cloud computing in their software, let alone AI intelligent design...

And judging from the situation he tested just now, although the entire software is not very complete, the design ideas and concepts are indeed very good...

The two had different thoughts, and Jiang Hang's introduction was coming to an end.

"I'm not going to hide from you, our EDA software is not yet a mature product. Next, we need to obtain a large amount of data in actual use to improve and perfect it."

"Of course, a lot of the remaining feature development required a lot of time, effort and money."

At the end, Jiang Hang also showed a smile.

"Our entire team is struggling. We can only seek external investment, hoping that someone will acquire our software or invest in us, so that we can continue to make the software."

Director Zhang also understood what Jiang Hang meant.

Facing Jiang Hang, Manager Zhou did not avoid suspicion, he turned to look at Director Zhang and said:
"Mr. Zhang, as far as the trial situation just now is concerned, I think it's okay. Among other things, at least the design concept and basic functions are no problem."

"However, we still need to conduct more detailed tests on the specific content..."

With Manager Zhou's initial affirmation, Factory Manager Zhang was determined.

……

It was three days after Hu Lai got the news.

After Jiang Hang left, he left behind the EDA testing software. Manager Zhou hurriedly arranged for someone to test it. After some testing, he finally suggested to Director Zhang that he could purchase the EDA software provided by Jiang Hang.

in the office.

Director Zhang handed the latest information to Hu Lai.

"Boss, this is an EDA software designed by a new team. We have evaluated it and we hope to acquire the project."

Hu Lai was a little surprised. In his impression, this was the first time that Director Zhang gave him an evaluation of an acquisition project.

"Acquiring the EDA software team?"

Hu Lai was slightly surprised. He also knew EDA software, and he also knew that the entire domestic EDA software was almost monopolized by Snoypsys.

Speaking of which, initially in the field of chips, Hu Lai paid more attention to chip design.

His original idea was to buy the NB-Y architecture first, and then spend points to buy an EDA software, and use the NB-Y architecture and EDA software to design different chips.

Unexpectedly, all plans were disrupted by the American embargo.

Not only was the purchase of NB-Y architecture disrupted, but now we have to save enough 5000 million credits to buy a 14nm lithography machine to solve the process problem.

As for the purchase of EDA software, it has to be postponed until later.

These days he contacted Gao Ling's Feng Rong. Originally, he wanted to find one or two leading EDA software companies in Yanguo to invest in. Unexpectedly, Director Zhang was one step ahead of him and had already negotiated to acquire an EDA team.

"Alright, since the evaluation by the chip design technology department finds that there is no problem, and the price is not expensive, then vote!"

After a brief look, Hu Lai is also very refreshing, although he does not know much about the professionalism of EDA software.

However, he knew in his heart that the development support of EDA software is almost the same as other industrial chains of chips, and they are all supported by a lot of money and data.

For example, in 2020, the R&D expenditures of the two EDA giants, Synopsys and Cadence, both exceeded US$10 billion, while the R&D expenses of China's top Huada Jiutian were only 1.8 million RMB a year.

In terms of research and development costs, it is not easy for Huada Jiutian to catch up with Synopsys, let alone surpass it!

Hu Lai thought to himself, but this is Phoenix's advantage.

Today's Phoenix Group has seen a sharp increase in the sales of Phoenix Computer and Phoenix Auto. With more cash flow and profits, it is not so difficult to feed back the chip industry chain.

Most importantly, the biggest advantage of Phoenix Group is that it has its own chip design department!
We must know that the EDA software and the chip design department are highly integrated, supported by a large amount of chip design data, and used by a large number of people, so the improvement and upgrade of the software will be very fast.

Besides, as far as Jiang Hang said EDA software realizes cloud computing and AI artificial intelligence design, these two departments of Phoenix Group can indeed provide very powerful help...

"Let's vote first. If you can use it, you can save system points. It's not a big problem to invest some money!"

With emotion, Hu Lai looked at the EDA project investment in front of him, and looked at the email from Burundi on the computer.

"The photovoltaic storage power station in Burundi will also be built, and our business in Africa will also start..."

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