Is it normal for a top student with an EQ of 20 to create a chip?

Chapter 29 The key point was not mentioned in the meeting, so the genius chose to sleep! (Seeking for further reading)
Xia Qing is a co-professor of Huaji, and the EDA department in the 012 laboratory is the project department she is cooperating with this time.

The person who called Xia Qing was Meng Xiangping, the technical director of the 012 Laboratory Huayan Institute.

The EDA department had just been established recently. When Meng Xiangping heard that Xia Qing was looking for the EDA department, he smiled and said: "Professor Xia is too polite. You are the director of the department. If you want to find them, you can just contact them directly without my consent."

Xia Qing originally wanted to have a meeting with Meng Xiangping, but she didn't say anything at the time.

The EDA software developed by Luo Yao himself was so incredible that Xia Qing decided to let people from the EDA department test it first.

After Xia Qing and the people from the EDA department confirmed the meeting time, she said to Luo Yao: "We are going to Huaji's 012 laboratory now. Are you afraid?"

Luo Yao looked at her with calm eyes and said, "Why are you afraid?"

"Laboratory 012 is the center of Huaji's scientific research. It is home to scientists and top engineers. After they see your EDA software, they will definitely study it thoroughly."

Xia Qing was reminding Luo Yao that if he insisted on going to the 012 laboratory, the people there would see the nature of his software.

The diorama will eventually be revealed.

Luo Yao was not afraid at all. There was a light of expectation in his eyes: "Those people are very smart? Then when can we go? I do have some questions that I want to communicate with them."

Really not afraid.

Xia Qing was silent.

Judging from Luo Yao's various performances, the EDA software in her computer was indeed developed by him.

But is it possible?

The integrated circuit IC design tool alone has nearly 20 functional modules, not to mention others!

Can a freshman do this?
Xia Qing finds it incredible. The only explanation now is that Luo Yao did develop an EDA. This EDA is either a copycat software or has castrated functions.

However, no matter which one, Xia Qing felt that Luo Yao's strength was much higher than she expected.

The 012 laboratory is located at the headquarters of Huaqi in Dongcheng. Xia Qing took Luo Yao and drove all the way to the headquarters of Huaqi.

"Is this a resort?" As soon as he got off the car, Luo Yao was surprised by the office building of Huaji.

Lush plants surround each unique building. The Creator seems to have spared no effort to display his aesthetics here. Each building is integrated with the surrounding plants, and the sunlight becomes less dazzling here. Just like the light cast by a crystal lamp, it makes people addicted.

This place is beautiful.

Luo Yao, who had never been to such a beautiful place, couldn't help but look at the lake not far away.

Before getting off the bus, Xia Qing told Luo Yao: "Don't be afraid when you go in. Just answer whatever they ask."

Luo Yao didn't understand why Xia Qing was worried that he was afraid. If he was really afraid, he wouldn't come to Dongcheng.

After Luo Yao nodded, Xia Qing let him get out of the car, and the two entered a six-story building - Huayan Institute.

After entering Huayan Institute, Xia Qing brought Luo Yao to the conference room.

After opening the door, Luo Yao found that it was already full of people.

As soon as they appeared, everyone's eyes were focused on Xia Qing and him.

Xia Qing took the laptop and put it on the conference room table, and said straight to the point: "There is an EDA software here that you need to take a look at."

"Lao Peng, I'll give you the notebook. You can organize everyone to take a look at it." After Xia Qing finished speaking, he handed the notebook to a gray-haired man.

He is the prototype verification review expert in the department, Penley.

When he received the notebook and clicked it a few times, his eyes immediately became focused.

"Specification, functional simulation, CDC checking, RTL coding, clock tree synthesis, static timing, ECO, post-simulation, both front-end design functions and back-end!"

"Dai Guangchao, call your people over immediately to test this software!" Peng Li shouted loudly to the test team sitting in the corner.

When Dai Guangchao heard Peng Li's greeting, he hurriedly asked people to walk over with computers. The others had curiosity in their eyes. They didn't know what happened to make Peng Li so excited.

In the entire conference room, except for the occasional whispers from the test group, no one else made a sound.

"No, we can't test this part of the light. We have to find the architect and system solution engineer to see it." Dai Guangchao adjusted the glasses on his face, stood up, and began to search in the conference room for what he wanted. Looking for someone.

"Acting manager, they are still in the R&D center. Mr. Meng gave them a task before and told Ye Ming that they will be here in 10 minutes."

Dai Guangchao's eyes widened and he shouted to He Shuzhen, the technical manager who was speaking: "Why wait 10 minutes?! Get them here quickly!"

Are you so anxious in this situation?
He Shuzhen couldn't understand, but immediately sent a message to Ye Ming through the internal IM system.

Soon, a man and a woman hurried in. As soon as he saw them, Dai Guangchao immediately waved them over.

The sound of keyboards sounded more intense throughout the conference room. At this time, the remaining people in the conference room could no longer sit still and walked over to watch.After a while, the system solution engineer Xiang Ye Ming sat up straight in disbelief.

Xia Qing couldn't help but ask: "How?"

"There is no problem with the internal logic flow of the entire system." Xiang Yeming didn't take his eyes off the computer interface. He was answering questions while still watching the architect Pei Yun's operations.

"Unbelievable! This architecture is not that of Synopsys, nor is it that of Cadence or Siemens. To be precise, it has nothing to do with the mainstream EDA software on the market today, but it has all the functional modules!" Pei Yun said with a tone of voice. A sense of disbelief.

"You must know that EDA functional modules are complex and diverse, and each function is supported by a set of tools or software. Therefore, apart from Synopsys and Cadence, there is no third set of EDA software in the world that can cover the entire process of chip design!"

"Even though Siemens has acquired it, it has not reached this level!"

The reason why Synopsys and Cadence can occupy two-thirds of the market share is that their software provides the most comprehensive functions, eliminating the need for others to piece together one set of software from one to the other.

"Our test team has also tested it, and all functions can be used normally without any lag. It also has a built-in supercomputing module, which means that it can support supercomputing in actual applications to improve the overall computing power."

"Is it supercomputing, not cloud computing?" Xia Qing remembered that Luo Yao asked her to borrow supercomputing permissions.

"We confirmed that it is a supercomputer and is not used for general commercial software. It seems that the developers do not want the software to be connected to the cloud server in the early stage. This is actually quite in line with our research and development ideas. High-precision technology will not be open to use in the early stage."

In order to form technical barriers, the most important thing is to keep confidentiality work well. Otherwise, once the technology is leaked, what barriers will there be?

The scalability of supercomputing is indeed inferior to that of cloud computing. The performance and scale of cloud computing resources can be flexibly expanded according to user needs, but supercomputing cannot. Each node and bandwidth have strict requirements, but the confidentiality of access to supercomputing can be Much better than cloud computing.

"It's too easy for developers to get into cloud computing. It's just a matter of adding a module!"

"In addition, its front-end compilation and processing engine is fully capable of designing and launching various types of projects. To put it simply, if others want to use it, they can support the business without spending much money on initial deployment. This is very important for One of the great things about using a company is that.”

"Which company developed this set of EDA?!" Pei Yun's voice was a little trembling. The answer she most wanted to hear now was that Huaguo Company developed this set of EDA.

If this EDA is developed by Huaguo Company, she has full confidence that it can compete with Synopsys and Cadence!
"It's not the company." Xia Qing knew that everyone in the conference room was looking at her without looking.

"Not a company? Which R&D center is that?" Xia Qing's words successfully aroused Peng Li's curiosity.

"Yes..." Xia Qing subconsciously looked for Luo Yao.

It's really strange. Luo Yao was still there just now, why is he gone now?

Xia Qing looked behind the crowd and found Luo Yao lying on a chair and sleeping.

???

You're really not nervous at all, are you?
Xia Qing was really speechless. In full view of everyone, she had no choice but to walk to Luo Yao and wake him up.

"Luo Yao, why did you fall asleep? Everyone is waiting for you to talk about the EDA you developed."

People in the conference room were stunned after hearing Xia Qing's words.

What do you mean?
The EDA software they praised each other was actually developed by the kid in front of them?

What kind of international joke is this!
Luo Yao woke up and finally woke up a little after seeing Xia Qing.

"They didn't get to the point. I was too sleepy after listening, so I fell asleep." Luo Yao told the truth. He hadn't rested during this period. He typed code whenever he had time, and he didn't get a good rest.

He just listened to the people in the conference room talking. He was not particularly interested, so he found a comfortable chair in the conference room and slept on it.

"..."

There was a collective silence in the conference room.

What was this kid talking about just now? !

Did they miss the point?

They are a group of top engineers in the country, but they actually said that they missed the point. Why is this kid so crazy?

Sensing that the atmosphere in the conference room was not good, Xia Qing hurriedly said: "Explain the important point to everyone."

Luo Yao sighed, feeling quite disappointed like a down-and-out painter who painted a masterpiece that was handed down from generation to generation but no one could appreciate it.

“Actually, the best part of this system’s design is the front-end design.”

"Now that more and more transistors can be integrated per unit area of ​​the chip, the chip's power consumption and heat generation have become problems. You should all know that this situation is prone to EM effects."

“The current solution is to verify the power consumption calculation tool in EDA, but the traditional method is too time-consuming and inaccurate, which will cause problems during verification later. Once this happens, the entire delivery time will be extended. "

“That’s why I built a prediction architecture for the average flip rate of logic circuits based on the random forest model, and used machine learning to predict power consumption.”

Dai Guangchao's eyes widened when he heard this.

(End of this chapter)