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Chapter 149 Are They Crazy?
The technical director of Zhongxing Microelectronics is standing behind the design engineer and guiding him to test the Panda EDA.

"Boss, what are you testing?" the design engineer asked.

"All tests, don't miss any point." The technical director replied, although they have been cooperating with Hua Da Jiutian, but because of this, they are very aware of Hua Da Jiutian's strength.

Even in the domestic market share, it is only about 5%, far behind the three major manufacturers, with a total of more than 300 customers, which is already the first in the domestic market.

However, its EDA product line only accounts for about one-third of the tools required for integrated circuits, and another two-thirds are currently blank.

That is to say, Huada's current products can only cover part of the link, and have not yet achieved full coverage.

So even if they say that they have achieved full coverage, it is already an incredible breakthrough, but today they say that not only has full coverage, but also reached or even surpassed the three giants.

This made him feel a little too unbelievable even though he watched the whole press conference and witnessed some demonstrations.

So after the application for the trial was in place, he immediately arranged for the trial, and took a real design product to run it through all the functions.

"Okay, then I will test the layout and mask design first." The design engineer first conducted a module test according to the design requirements of this chip.

When he tried it, he clearly felt that the same type of software from Synopsys was installed on the same computer, but under the same configuration, Panda EDA was very smooth and smooth to use, unlike Synopsys software that loaded and opened a function or module You have to get stuck.

Looking at the memory usage of the task manager, it is also much smaller than Synopsys, indicating that its performance optimization should be done better.

After the actual use, they have roughly learned the operation method before, and when they are not very familiar with it, the time to complete the development is about 30% less than that of other previous designs, which surprised them a little.

In fact, there is no need to do data comparison. When they use it themselves, they can feel that the structure of this Panda EDA is more reasonable, and the design concept is more advanced. They don’t need manuals. They just know how to operate it by intuition. And the steps required to complete an operation are three to four steps less than Synopsys on average.

Not only that, there are many design tools and modules in it, which even make the accuracy and readability of chip design drawings reach a higher level than foreign countries, which surprised them all.

"You guys, test the front-end certification, prototype certification, analog circuits, and display panels at the same time." The technical director was worried about the influence of human factors, so he randomly selected several design engineers of different levels to design and verify together. It happens that all modules can also be covered.

The result of the verification is that the overall chip design effect and design results have been greatly improved, that is to say, it is really no worse than foreign countries.

Although the final confirmation still needs to take a chip that is actually going to be put into production for its design, and then go to the foundry to complete the entire process before it can be completely confirmed, but the superior performance it shows at the moment is enough to make people believe , Huaxia really made an EDA software that does not lose to foreign countries.

"We really don't need to rely on foreign countries anymore?" As a subsidiary company of Zhongxing, which has also suffered from talent management, the technical director of Zhongxing Microelectronics faintly smiled.

Not only Zhongxing Microelectronics, but also many companies in China that need to use EDA to design chips have come up with this idea after trying Panda EDA.

And based on the low fee promised to them by Liu Weiping, after they roughly determined that the other party was not bragging, a thought popped up in their minds: "Can we not pay the high EDA renewal fee abroad?" '

On the other side of the ocean, Synopsys headquarters.

Chairman and co-CEO Jim is reading this quarter's financial report. He puts the cigar in his mouth in the ashtray, knocks the burnt ash, and puts it back in his mouth. smile.

The overall performance has increased significantly compared to the previous quarter, especially in the China region. With their industrialization process, there is an increasing demand for chip design, and there is a faint tendency to replace Europe as the largest EDA demand market.

But the most favorite part of this land is that there are no local competitors, so their only competitors for Synopsys are Cadence and Mentor Graphic, both of which are eagle sauces. The three companies occupy more than 90% of China's market share.

And as for their native products such as Huadajiutian, Gailun Electronics and Guangliwei, they don't like it at all.

He made an appointment for a reception in the evening, and planned to discuss with the other two bosses whether they should increase the price of the products together. Since there is a monopoly position, as a capitalist, he should naturally maximize his profits.

"Jason, bring that Maybach. Damn it, I still like my convertible Ford. I hope the guys in the garage will be careful not to rub it on me."

Jim stuck his half-smoked cigar straight into the ashtray as he spoke, and got up to leave for the dinner.

"Boss, I think you still have time to read a report that was just delivered before you go out." Assistant Jason said to Jim while reading the report just delivered by someone outside.

Jim didn't intend to stop his steps, so he walked towards the door and asked, "What's the matter? Tell me now."

Jason shrugged, and said: "It's a situation reported by the business department, they encountered a little problem with the contract renewal of Huaxia customers.

Recently, many customers have expired using our software, and we have contacted them to renew their contracts according to the plan.

In the past, they were very active. After all, if the payment was not made in time, their software would not be available after the due date, which would cause a large number of delays in their chip design plans and cause heavy losses. Called to our account.

But this time is different. Not only did we not receive payment in advance for many chip design companies in China, but their attitude was still somewhat negative when we called to inquire.

In the words of the business department, it is just hesitating, saying that there is no rush to renew the contract before it expires, and it seems that there is a posture of not signing a contract and not paying until the last day. "

"Oh? Is there such a thing?" Jim finally stopped. It was related to the company's profits. He wanted to ask about this kind of thing in person, and said:

"Have they found out why?"

Jason nodded, and said: "According to their inquiries to some manufacturers, it is Huaxia, specifically the company called Huada Jiutian, which recently released a set of EDA, which is being used by their design company for free. .

It seems that the response is not bad, and the price is also cheap, so many of them intend to use their own domestic EDA software to replace our products. "

Jim froze for a moment when he heard it, then looked at Jason with a weird smile on his face, and said:
"Use their domestic products, oh my god, are those Chinese people crazy?"

(End of this chapter)