Siheyuan: The Era of Core Generation

Chapter 171 Dawn Workstation

After the formation of the second-generation semi-lithography machine, according to the characteristics of its processing technology, the manpower organized by Zhao Ye is also stepping up the design of various application chips.

In fact, there are many types of chips used in a device, and not all chips need to be produced with the latest lithography machines.Therefore, in the No. [-] laboratory of the entire joint factory, each team made a strict plan for their work and listed a timetable.

The first thing Zhao Ye does when he goes to work every day is to check the timetable of each project team. Which part is ahead of schedule and which part is behind. These are all issues that Zhao Ye, the chief designer, needs to care about.

If a group is stuck on a problem for a long time, this is the moment for Zhao Ye to show his power.He often won't tell you what to do is right, but he can tell you clearly what to do is wrong.

These dedicated researchers have only been working with Zhao Ye for a month or so, and they are deeply impressed by his "ability".

Therefore, the current project team has a god-like trust in Zhao Ye.They all firmly believed that as long as they persisted in their work, they would be able to win the final victory under the leadership of Zhao Ye.

In a word, the military spirit is available!
All that's left is to equip.

It is impossible for Zhao Ye to let everyone draw pictures on manuscript paper. At present, simple chips can still do it. Once the pre-research of a new type of main chip starts, drawing pictures is simply a joke.

No one can draw tens of thousands of transistor circuit diagrams on a single drawing.Even if it can be drawn, it is estimated that no one can understand it.

Not to mention, it is impossible for a chip to be drawn by one person.

When Zhao Ye and the others worked on the Shuguang series of computers before, although the drawings at that time were done on paper, after all, the integration level was still very low. In addition, countless people worked desperately to light lamps and burn oil for the drawings. Assure.

But even then, the drawings are full of mistakes and omissions.In the end, it was Zhao Ye who used the simulation ability given by the space to go through his own system, and only then did he fix those hard-to-see bugs.

Zhao Ye urgently needs professional drawing software.A drawing software capable of drawing, debugging, labeling, and co-management.

After the success of the second-generation semi-lithography machine, Zhao Ye put the problem of this software in the first queue waiting to be dealt with.Also in this queue are monitors and display chips.

Although the display chip is readily available.But the performance of this chip is really bad.It is okay to control a small dot-matrix display, and the chips used for TV screens developed later mainly convert digital signals into analog signals.

The fineness of these two methods is not enough, at least it is unnecessary to use it for drawing.Zhao Ye flipped through the information in the system, and finally decided to get out the crt monitors that are commonly used in later generations.

Not for anything else, mainly because it is simple and faster to implement.At present, we already have the ability to produce TV sets.Although the screen is small, although it is black and white.But the basic technology can still be mastered.

Zhao Ye didn't expect the other party to work with him this time. He directly asked the relevant manufacturers to make a batch of picture tubes for him, flat and right-angled, 14 inches.

As for other things, absolutely no need.With the help of the system, Zhao Ye assembled a set of small manual equipment in his own laboratory to apply phosphor to the inside of the picture tube.This has a certain technicality, but mainly because the requirements for the coating equipment are relatively high.Zhao Ye cheated here and came up with a mature plan all at once.

In addition to the picture tube, there is also the main board of the display, vertical and horizontal electromagnetic deflection coils.This thing is used to confine the charged particles emitted by the high frequency head.The biggest difference between a spherical display and a flat right-angle display lies in the high-frequency head that the coil and the picture tube are finally disconnected.

On this high-frequency head, the biggest difference between digital display and analog display appears.Digital display, its video circuit is a digital signal, that is, its signal processing mechanism, which scans line by line according to the digital image data sent from the main circuit board, and emits different electron beams to realize the display function on the screen.

This is our common concept of resolution. For example, when we say that a display has a resolution of 800*600, it actually means that this display has 40 display grids.The resolution of an analog signal display (television) in the traditional sense refers to the stripes of various colors arranged at equal intervals.The resolution at this time is often called XX line, which is the principle.

With Zhao Ye's fiddling, it didn't take long for a naked digital display to be placed in front of everyone's eyes.But everyone didn't take it seriously.

After all, the display screen is indeed bigger, but that's all.This particularity has not caught the attention of these well-informed researchers.

After Zhao Ye finished debugging the monitor, he left it alone and began to draw the circuit diagram of the display chip.

This chip is made exactly according to the display he just rubbed out.After all, there is no need to make the chip compatible with this kind of display at present.In fact, if Zhao Ye wants to be compatible, he must have other monitors for him to be compatible!Not to mention the whole world at present, at least there is such a model in the whole country, why do you make it so complicated?

However, this chip is still very difficult.Zhao Ye didn't look for anyone else this time, and even his own teacher didn't disturb him, just quietly in the space alone, building and experimenting again and again until he succeeded.

After the design is completed, it needs to be manufactured. Zhao Ye's time is too tight. He spends most of his day coordinating the work of various groups.In many cases, you have to do explanations and experiments by yourself. There is also a very bad thing about researchers, that is, you are very good at persuading a person with words.There is no way, usually at this time, Zhao Ye will choose to speak with facts.But often speaking with facts is a waste of time and energy.

This also greatly restricted Zhao Ye's own work progress.

Fortunately, he still has an apprentice.

Once when Ma Hua delivered food to Zhao Ye, Zhao Ye suddenly remembered that he also had an apprentice.

MCA is amazing now, this job has only been done for a few years, and now it has been rated as a seventh-level worker.His job is to operate lithography machines and etching machines. Since there are very few talents in this field and it is a new type of work, the country generally treats this work as a fitter.Therefore, although MCA is still very young, it is the first batch of lithography machine operators in the country.Evaluating a seventh-level worker is enough.

Zhao Ye thought of Ma Hua's arrival, so he asked him about his current job content. He was still an operator, so what else could he say?Of course it was called.

Zhao Ye processed the mask with the power of space, and the rest of the work was Ma Hua's.The second-and-a-half-generation lithography machines are quite different from the previous ones, especially in terms of operation.Although MCA can be regarded as a skilled worker, the success rate on this new equipment is not high.

Zhao Ye doesn't worry about this, it's just a waste of time and materials, it's not a big deal.

That's how Zhao Ye was able to spare some time to focus on the development of new computers.

The new type of computer is still improved on the blueprint of Dawn II.The design concept of Dawn No. [-] is very advanced, at least it can do parallel computing without any problem.

However, Dawn No. [-] also has its weakness, that is, it is a computer purely for calculation.It is powerful in logic operations, but it is weak in multimedia data processing.The main reason for this is that the instruction set in its core processor (cpu) has a single function.

In order to realize Zhao Ye's ideal functions, the core processor needs to be changed, at least some instruction sets need to be added, so that he can support the multimedia processing tasks currently required.

Time passed day by day in such a busy schedule.In a blink of an eye, a Spring Festival came to the world.

Ma Hua told Zhao Ye several times about the Spring Festival, but Zhao Ye either immersed his consciousness in the space, or buried himself in making various diagrams.Ma Hua felt a little distressed. In fact, it was not just Ma Hua. Most of the people who worked here had hardly seen Zhao Ye go home.No matter how late they left or how early they came, Zhao Ye could always be seen in the laboratory.

In fact, they didn't know that Zhao Ye hadn't been back since he entered the laboratory, which can be seen from his clothes.It was only after Ma Hua came to work in the laboratory recently that Zhao Ye began to change clothes every now and then. This was every time Ding Qiunan asked Ma Hua to bring him in.

Zhao Ye was still working during the Spring Festival and had no intention of going home at all.On the last day of his vacation, he asked Ma Hua to send a message to Ding Qiunan, saying that he would seize the two days to make up for the work he had left behind.

In fact, what Zhao Ye wanted was to use the opportunity of no one in the factory these two days to "rub" a big wave.

A new generation of processor was invented by Zhao Ye.The design of this thing is based on the space, and the production is based on the hands, and then use the space to copy some in batches.The display chip was also produced, saying that the chip may not be accurate. The chip was produced by MCA. Zhao Ye packaged the chip produced by MCA and installed it on his improved graphics card.

For the connection between the graphics card and the monitor, Zhao Ye simply found a few wires, tied them up, and made a plug at both ends.

When everyone came to work the next year, a computer that no one had ever seen was already in a corner of the laboratory.

When everyone sees this thing, their emotions are extremely complicated.

how to say?Very Zhao Ye's style, simple and rude!
The chassis is just an iron frame, with a thin plate covered with screws on the outside, and holes are simply cut out for various peripheral interfaces.Everyone looked at the edge of the hole, and there were some sharp burrs.

The display is quite high-end, but unfortunately it still looks very basic.High-end means that the screen is very large, and simple means that the entire display is also an iron frame, covered with wooden boards, and several rows of cooling holes are drilled on the wooden boards with electric drills.

The keyboard is still the same keyboard, but what is that thing next to the keyboard?I really haven't seen this one.

(End of this chapter)