Siheyuan: The Era of Core Generation

Chapter 174 Electronic Office
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Zhao Ye didn't have to wait long, and the capital university had a result.

Speaking of which, there are two reasons for the speed.

Firstly, they have a certain foundation. After all, Capital University is involved in the Dawning series of computers.They are very experienced in understanding and using the instruction set of the central processing unit.

The other is the actual needs and preparations.Professor Ci and the others have long thought about using computers to draw pictures, but the previous computers were difficult to support their idea.

Now that there is a suitable computer, the previous accumulation has come into use.In addition, the human resources here are not comparable to other places, so it is not surprising that the progress is fast.

Zhao Ye lamented the high efficiency of Capital University, but the same news would become a pressure to Mizuki.

what happened?Why was it still taken the lead by Capital University?How can this be tolerated!

Ever since, Mizuki's side seems to have been beaten with chicken blood, and must come up with more mature and easier-to-use software than the capital university's side.

Such a situation is what everyone wants to see, so, under the mode of programming competitions held by schools on both sides, one office software after another has been developed.

Of course, the functions of office software at this time cannot be compared with those of later generations.But now I am very satisfied. In terms of the current hardware environment, it may not be able to run if it is complicated.

As long as it can be used, what kind of bicycle do you need?

The joint factory has stepped up production, and more workstation-style computers have been produced.However, the production line here produces large items, and the key processing chips are all made by Zhao Ye.

I want to ask whether the current technology of this chip can be mass-produced?It must be mass-produced.

It's just that the yield rate is frighteningly low, and only a "master" like Zhao Ye can control the yield rate within an acceptable range.

However, the consequence of this uniqueness is that it is difficult to achieve large-scale manufacturing of workstation-style computers.At present, there is basically no outward diffusion, and it is only used within the relevant units of the joint factory.

In addition, another feature of the workstation is that it can be operated on a network.

A large workstation used as a server was saved by Zhao Ye.The reason why it is called large is because it has more processors, more memory, and a larger hard drive, and of course the price is higher.

With the server and the previously designed switch, a small local area network is formed.

Both Beijing University and Shuimu University have installed such a network, and then Zhao Ye installed a signal repeater and a large switchboard to realize the remote joint office of the three places.

As soon as the network was formed, all people who surfed the Internet participated in the test.

The test content is very simple, chat on a public platform!It's just that this is different from the bbs of later generations, and the chat content cannot be saved in large quantities.

The resources of the server are very tight, okay, precious resources cannot be used to store the nonsense of these people.

So, the first person who wanted to complain about Zhao Ye appeared. In order to avoid Zhao Ye's pursuit, he even changed his name.So inadvertently, this lucky guy invented the first screen name in history.

In the future, when everyone looks back on history, this person refuses to admit that he is the owner of this screen name!Can he say that he just wanted to "swear" Zhao Ye?If this is picked up, don't die too badly!

Between honor and life and death, he decisively chose the latter.

Zhao Ye's purpose was just to test the server's ability to withstand pressure, but who would have thought that such a "master" would be born!For a while, everyone seemed to have found a way and changed their names one after another.

This made Zhao Ye extremely depressed, and Commissar Luo was equally depressed.Seeing the subtitles scrolling on the screen getting more and more out of line, he realized that this was not going to work, it was too easy to cause accidents.

So, at the request of the "network police", Zhao Ye came up with the real-name system before these people were "free" for a day.

This real-name system is very simple, because there are only a few computers now!A full load is not more than [-] units.

Fewer people can connect to the Internet, so the online account registration has changed from directly using the computer address "ip" to applying for it at the Political Commissar Luo.With a fixed account, everyone's "free" soul has been "pacified", and each one has become a good baby again.

This is a trivial matter, an episode in the process of networking.

The biggest change brought about by networking is that design teams can finally work in parallel.

Take Professor Ci's chip design team as an example. The previous situation where everyone is surrounded by a blueprint is gone, and now no one is guarding a computer.

Then open the corresponding drawing software and make your own part in a specific area.The most direct impact is that future chip designs must require modules!

That is to say, each area has a specific function and logical structure for each area, otherwise such a design pattern cannot be established.

This is a small problem, Zhao Ye didn't bother to tell everyone, everyone will naturally make such a choice in practice.

The electronic office makes the whole project progress by leaps and bounds.It makes sense not to say that production tools determine productivity.

The design work is improving very quickly, especially in the No. [-] laboratory. People from all over the world need to adjust.Now with such an achievement and platform, people's work enthusiasm and enthusiasm have been greatly improved.

Coupled with Zhao Ye's encouragement for everyone from time to time, and timely handling of various problems encountered by each team, the progress of the entire project can be described as overwhelming.

In March, the FPGA chip was "gnawed" out by Zhao Ye.Although the function is not very strong, it also realizes eight times eight logic units, which is barely usable.

In April, the central program-controlled switchboard transformed on the basis of the workstation was finalized.The related software system starts to develop.

In May, the design of the new telephone was finalized.

In June, the design of the group user exchange was finalized.

In July, the whole system started networking test.

In the scorching weather of July, Zhao Ye and everyone in the laboratory were shirtless, so they couldn't go to the basement.There are too many electronic devices today, not only consume a lot of electricity, but also emit a lot of heat.

The temperature in the basement is very unstable due to the influence of these computers, which directly leads to a sharp drop in the yield of chip production.Especially the second-and-a-half generation lithography machines are too sensitive to temperature.

In order to ensure the normal operation of the equipment, Zhao Ye could only sacrifice people.

Everyone moved out of the basement and began to accept the test of hot weather.

Today is the first day of the test. In fact, the stress test of the program-controlled switches does not need to connect so many phones to these switches.

Then you have to test it until the year of the monkey, and how many people are needed to do it!

Strictly speaking, Zhao Ye's experiment should be regarded as a simulation experiment.Using computer program, instead of dialing of telephone connection, call.

Only in this way, the number of computers required is also quite a lot.The basement was unusable, so Zhao Ye could only get the factory to coordinate and build a huge shed in an open space.

One is to shade, and the other is to prevent rain.

The computer is so expensive, if it gets wet in the rain, Director Yang will kill someone!Even if Director Yang doesn't kill you, but you broke such an important computer, shouldn't you kill yourself to thank the world?
The factory is very busy, except for some porters who come to help build the shed, the main force is the administrative staff.

Even Director Yang and Political Commissar Luo have taken action. How can Zhao Ye and his group of researchers still watch from the sidelines?

Take off your shirt and do it!
The sun tanned Zhao Ye and the others as black, but in doing so, the relationship between comrades was drawn into it.Looking at the white and clean researchers who used to be suffocated in the basement, they changed into another look in just two days. These people laughed very happily at each other.

The shed was set up, and the equipment was shipped up in a set, and they were all neatly stacked in this open-air shed.None of Zhao Ye and his dozens of people is idle, and they are all enduring the high temperature at this time, assembling the equipment one by one.

After all the equipment was debugged, Zhao Ye couldn't wait to give the order to start the test.Although it is already night at this time, good evening, at least it is not hot anymore!Just more mosquitoes.

As each device was incorporated into the server, analog dialing began.Zhao Ye, the main designers, stared nervously at the screen in front of them, which displayed the number of online switches in each group and the central switch.

"Director, it's already close to 50.00% of the design quantity, do you want to increase it?" a supervisor asked Zhao Ye loudly.

"Record the data, and then increase it to 80.00%." ​​Zhao Ye followed the plan, marked it on the small book, and gave the order.

"Yes." The monitor replied, and then began to operate on the computer.

15 minutes later……

"The report has reached 80.00% of the design value."

Zhao Ye didn't look up, he was also nervously staring at the screen to read the data.It's just that the data he sees is not the same as that seen by others.

What Zhao Ye pays close attention to is the status parameters of the switch, including the maximum response time, operating speed, chip temperature, and the temperature of the chassis environment.Especially important is the running state of the FPGA chip.

This kind of chip was put into use for the first time, and the relevant experience was basically zero, but this thing was too important, Zhao Ye couldn't help being careless.

However, after the data reached [-]% of Zhao Ye's design value, Zhao Ye did not stop and continued to increase the intensity of the test.In this way, in the group switch, the number of waiting connection requests exceeds the actual processing quantity of the switch. In Zhao Ye's monitoring screen, the internal parameters of the body rise rapidly, and after a threshold is raised, the system's self-protection function It was started, and some connection requests were forcibly hung up.

The consequence of this is to reduce the user experience, but it can save the device.Finding a balance between the two is a problem every designer has to face.

The same is true for Zhao Ye. Originally, it is impossible for a group switch to have more than 128 connections at the moment.

Either redial the number, or wait a little longer and try again.There is no way, the current system can only support so far, and it is useless to have opinions.

(End of this chapter)