Rebirth of the Wild Age

After the speech, Song Weiyang visited the computer room and computer laboratory of Fudan University. This time there were only a few leaders leading the team, and the other professors were busy with their work.

　　 When he came to the Institute of Parallel Processing, Song Weiyang was quite surprised to find that the student who urged the manuscript with him was also there, and couldn’t help asking: "Are you a graduate student?"

　　Chen Haibo said: "I am in the 00 grade as a junior."

　　 "Then what are you doing in the research institute?" Song Weiyang asked.

"It's a layman," Chen Haibo laughed. "The project I am currently involved in is to transplant the back end of the VLIW instruction set of a certain Philips chip and optimize it. The summer vacation of the sophomore year is over, the boss (Dean Zang) sees me free I had nothing to do, so I was dragged to the research institute to mess around."

　　 If you learn to be a master, you can learn to be a master.

　　I was invited to the research institute to participate in the Philips chip outsourcing project before my junior year. This is an errand that undergraduates dream of. Even if they do not work, there are countless people rushing to do it.

Dean Zang came over to shake hands and said, "Mr. Song, welcome to the Parallel Processing Institute of Fudan University."

　　 "The senior is polite," Song Weiyang smiled, "I'm in grade 94, which level is the senior?"

Dean 　　 Zang said: "I am level 83."

　　 Song Weiyang said: "Then you are an old senior."

Dean 　　 Zang said: "When you were undergraduate, I was a lecturer in Fudan University, but I have long admired the name of the brother of Song, and I can't say that I have a good reputation in Fudan University."

　　 Song Weiyang asked: "I remember that Fudan Parallel Processing Institute also has a China Technology project, right?"

Dean 　　 Zang nodded and said: "Yes, we are involved in the research and development of China's MP3 chip, and are responsible for the decoding of the WMA format."

　　 As early as 1997, the department manager of Samsung proposed a development plan for MP3. But Samsung did not take it seriously at the time. Later, the department manager was forced to retire early due to the Asian financial turmoil. This guy went to another South Korean company and in 1998 he got the world's first MP3 player.

　　 But the market response of Korean MP3 is not very good, you can use it as a digital version of the Walkman. The U.S. Emperor League later launched an MP3 that can download music from the Internet, which immediately caused a sensation. It was also brought to court by the Recording Industry Association of America for copyright issues.

　　 In the following two or three years, many new functions were added to MP3, which was carried forward by Apple in 2001-the iPod was born!

　　 In addition, the iPod also bundled online music for sale and introduced a relatively complete payment system. The Recording Industry Association of America was able to profit from this, so it helped Apple to vigorously promote the iPod.

　　 Originated from the iPod’s great success in the US market, China Technology Corporation wanted to make MP3 last year, but the market survey data was rather bad. First, the download speed of China's Internet is generally very slow; second, China's online music resources are extremely scarce. These two factors have caused MP3 products to sell very poorly in China, at least for the time being, the market size is not large.

　　 However, China's Internet is developing at a rapid pace. China Technology has decided to develop MP3 or even directly develop MP3 chips independently. This thing is not technically difficult.

　　 What makes people speechless is that China Science and Technology has just planned to release the film, the world's first MP3 supporting WMA format was born in South Korea, and quickly became a new industry benchmark. This has to blame Microsoft for being too rogue, frantically promoting WMA, and trying its best to restrict the development of MP3, causing industry insiders to feel that the MP3 format is over sooner or later.

　　 So Shenzhou Technology overturned the MP3 chip and redone it. The team led by Dean Zang was responsible for WMA format decoding. He himself also had a part-time job in the Shenghai R&D Center of Shenzhou Technology.

Dean Zang took Song Weiyang around the institute and said casually: “There is already MP4 in the United States, but it is still in the category of MP3, but with more video playback functions. I think China Science and Technology should also develop MP4 chips in advance. Xuedi Song can think about it."

　　 Song Weiyang asked: "Why did you bring it up directly to me? Does China's R&D center disagree?"

　　 "It's not disapproval," Dean Zang explained, "It's the China R&D Center that decided to launch the lowest-level MP4 chip, and I recommend that you go directly to the higher-level MP4 chip."

　　 Song Weiyang belonged to the technical novice, and asked, "Is there any difference?"

Dean Zang explained: "The lowest-level MP4 chip can only be used with one or two multimedia codecs, that is, it can only support a small number of video formats. The problem is that there are more and more video formats, and low-end chips have many formats. No video can be played, and it may be slowly eliminated in two or three years."

　　 "Where is the difficulty?" Song Weiyang asked.

Dean Zang explained as simple and understandable as possible: "To perform video codec on traditional RISC and DSP processors, it means that these processors must run at very high speeds, require a lot of memory and consume a lot of power, but in It doesn’t work in portable devices."

　　 Song Weiyang asked: "Do you have a solution?"

　　 "Yes," said Dean Zang, "using a configurable processor design can solve this problem."

　　 Song Weiyang asked: "If you are to lead the project, how long will it take to see the results?"

　　 "I don't know." Dean Zang said.

　　 "Don't know?" Song Weiyang looked at him.

Dean 　　 Zang laughed and said, "Because I only know the principle of configurable processors, I haven't gotten started yet. I can get it done in half a year if I'm lucky. It may take three to five years if I'm not lucky."

　　 Song Weiyang was completely speechless: "You are practicing with projects! No wonder the China R&D Center does not agree."

Dean Zang smiled like an old fox: "The configurable processor belongs to the international cutting-edge technology, which represents the future trend of chip design. It will also be used in the future development of computer and mobile phone chips in China. If you want to develop in the field of chip design, Song Xuedi Configurable processor technology must be mastered~www.readwn.com~ Even if the MP4 chip project fails to develop, it can still accumulate a lot of experience in the future."

　　 Song Weiyang scratched his forehead and smiled: "You seem to have convinced me."

　　 "Then I will start this project as soon as I finish the two projects in my hands?" Dean Zang asked quite expectantly.

　　 Song Weiyang said: "A lot of funds are needed, right?"

Dean 　　 Zang said: "I don't know exactly how much it will cost. No one in China has done this yet."

　　 The more mysterious and unintelligible this man said, Song Weiyang's confidence became firmer. He nodded and said: "That's it, I'll go back and say hello to the company, you first make the project budget."

Dean 　　 Zang flattered and said: "Song Xuedi is the richest man in China, and he has a long-term strategic vision. Admire, admire!"

　　 Song Weiyang was taken by two other computer departments to visit, and Dean Zang kept sending him downstairs before returning.

　　 Chen Haibo slipped to Dean Zang and asked, "Boss, have you received a new job again?"

Dean Zang was overwhelmed with joy: "Well, there is another new project. Big bosses who don’t know the technology are cheating. The configurable processor design. I have only seen it in foreign journals. I haven’t even touched the real chip yet. I look back. Please help me to collect relevant information. If you make this thing, your senior thesis will have been completed." The latest chapter of the Rebirth of the Wild Age is on the website: