I've done whatever I want

That night, Yuan Chengxu put down his obsession, ate meat and drank heavily, and completely became a common man, and he became drunk without knowing it.

With his joining, Jinshi Technology moved quickly and quickly launched the preliminary market research work on Grade 0 automotive grade 32-bit MCU chips.

Design House's project teams are generally dynamically combined. The product manager of the Xuantie project is Yuan Chengxu, and Tian Tianle is the chief architect of this chip that has high hopes and is also the person in charge of digital circuit design.

Xin Tong served as the person in charge of the analog circuit of this project.

In the Xuantie project, Xin Tong needs to report to Yuan Chengxu and Tian Tianle.

The composition of project members of Jinshi Technology is not judged by people's status, but based on people's professional skills, which is full of tension.

The first step in chip research and development is to understand the market demand, understand the customer's pain points, and conduct in-depth analysis of competing products. The performance of competing products is related to the architectural design and quality of the chip, and the die area of ​​competing products is related to the manufacturing cost of the chip. How Defining a competitive automotive-grade chip in a highly competitive market requires superb capabilities and is crucial to the success or failure of the entire project.

If the project fails, everything will return to zero. In the chip design house, everyone is accustomed to calling this stage Milestone 0.

As a product manager, Yuan Chengxu, who has rich entrepreneurial experience, quickly got involved in busy work. Cooperating with him in his work were Zhu Tao and Cui Jie, who have been working hard in the MCU market for many years.

Meeting! Discussion!

The busy time flies by like lightning, and 2014 has arrived before I know it.

It has been a very busy year for Jinshi Technology. With the help of Zhang Kaijun, the tape-out of the anti-war project Full Mask was completed at the beginning of January. After Promise Semiconductor received the wafers produced by SMIC, Xin Tong was the first I drove my Mercedes-Benz to Suzhou in no time.

"Lao Luo, this BGA277 package test verification sample is the first chip independently designed by Jinshi Technology. Time is money. You must arrange an order for me and get on the machine as soon as possible!" Xin Tong urged.

"Boss Xin, Wafer is doing IQC incoming inspection, and we will go online in an hour!" Logitech nodded.

"Let's go! Let's go to the FOL workshop!" Xin Tong patted Logitech on the shoulder and said.

"Ok!"

After finishing speaking, the two left the office, put on blue electrostatic clothes, and walked into the FOL dust-free workshop.

Sure enough, those wafers flowed from IQC to the wafer saw process within an hour.

After a while, Xin Tong saw the process technician standing next to the machine and starting to set the operating parameters of the new product. At this moment, he seemed to have returned to the glorious years when he was a technician at Ming Yueguang.

Step by Step, he followed all the way!
As a project manager, he knows deeply that project management is a race against time! This is like flying over the Luding Bridge. If you can't outrun your competitors, you will be ruthlessly eliminated by the market.

Watching the boss personally place the follow-up order, the production workshop also gave the green light all the way!

In seven days, just seven days, the MCU test sample was packaged! Regular orders require a lead time of sixteen days or even one month.

Without our own packaging and testing factory, this is absolutely impossible to achieve.

Holding the packaged chip in his hand, Xin Tong breathed a long sigh of relief and drove the Mercedes-Benz sedan. He personally escorted the test verification chip back to Shanghai.

In ordinary people's perception, bosses will be drowned in the sea of ​​literary exchanges. There are too few bosses like Xin Tong who are hands-on.

When the hardware engineer got the chips that were still emitting package heat, he was very moved. He used anti-static tweezers to take out an MCU chip from the tray. The engineer carefully put it into the Socket of the EV test board, and then Power On supplies power to the chip, and the voltage curve is quickly displayed on the oscilloscope.

"We lit up the chip!" Xin Tong exclaimed from the side.

"Yes, our 32-bit MCU chip has successfully brought up on the EV board!" Tian Tianle, who was staring at the oscilloscope, nodded, turned around and hugged Xin Tong tightly.

"Lele! This is a landmark event. The success of bringing up the chip means that the chip, which is mainly composed of silicon, has life. If it cannot be brought up, it will be a worthless stone." Xin Tong took the photo Tian Tianle said excitedly with a click on his shoulder. "Now we can officially start the verification of packaging samples!" Tian Tianle said.

"Thank you for your hard work, I will give you chicken drumsticks today, and the designers of the counter-war project team will be rewarded with [-] yuan each!" Xin Tong announced on the spot.

"We succeeded!"

"Long live 1 yuan!"

“The company is going to make a fortune!”

"Mr. Tian is mighty and domineering!"

……

The scene immediately burst into cheers.

"Don't get too excited, everyone. Bring Up lighting does not mean the design is successful! Real success depends on the verification results of our chip performance!" After the madness, Tian Tianle calmed down.

When he was studying at Tsinghua University, he participated in the design of many chip projects, and also took on a lot of private design work. This was the first time for him to independently lead a large chip like MCU. Success in the first version is the dream of every chip designer. Dreams are also something that can be met but not sought.

Hope a miracle happens! He thought silently in his mind.

Obviously, Tian Tianle's words poured a bucket of cold water on everyone, and everyone gradually calmed down from the frenzy.

"Fear chip verification engineers, now you can start EV verification at the hardware level and SV verification at the software level!" Tian Tianle shouted to the hardware engineers and firmware engineers surrounding him.

"Ok!"

"Before the test, you must have a Test Case, and after the test, you must make notes!" Tian Tianle instructed patiently.

"understood!"

"Then let's start work now. We are waiting for your verification results. We will know if it is a donkey or a horse when it comes out for a run!" Tian Tianle waved his hand.

"Thank you for your hard work!" Xin Tong shouted loudly.

The busy EV and SV verification work started soon!
The spring of that year passed very quickly. The spring flowers outside the window bloomed and faded, and it was April in the world soon.

"I would like to report to you that the first anti-war MCU of our Qianjiang Chao series chip has completed the EV and SV verification work yesterday. A total of two Bugs were found, both of which are Bug with workaround issues, not Bug with no workaround issues. This This means that the first version of the anti-war project Full Mask has been successful." At the project transition summary meeting, Tian Tianle, as the project leader, delivered a speech.

The venue immediately burst into warm applause.

Yuan Chengxu cast an approving look at Tian Tianle. He was born in DE and had opened a design company himself. He can be called a veteran in the chip design industry. The most glorious moment in his life was when he led the team to design a chip with Gao Li Buddha Circuit. A popular isolation chip, but he has never had a successful version in his life.

Tian Tianle, who graduated from Tsinghua University, is really not simple!

It seems that this time I made the right decision to return to secular life and join Kingstone Technology. It is really a great blessing in my life to be associated with this group of chip design masters.

"Thank you very much Lele, and also thank you all the colleagues in the Anti-war project team. The successful chip verification means that our MCU chip has fully met the indicator requirements on the DataSheet. My review opinion is GO! However, the success or failure of the product depends on the inspection. Whether or not it depends on the market, Jinshi Technology’s products must be high-quality products. We hope that the 32-bit MCU we defined and designed can become a hot chip in the market!” Xin Tong’s words were rational and full of passion.

The venue once again burst into warm applause.