Chapter 29: The meeting didn’t get to the point, so the genius chose to sleep!
Xia Qing is a co-professor at Huaji, and the EDA department in the 012 laboratory is the project department she is working with this time.
The Mr. Meng who called Xia Qing was Meng Xiangping, the technical director of the Huayan Institute of the 012 Laboratory.
The EDA department had just been established recently. When Meng Xiangping heard Xia Qing was looking for the EDA department, he smiled and said, "Professor Xia, you're too polite. You're the director of the department. If you want to contact them, just contact them directly. You don't need my permission."
Xia Qing originally wanted to have a meeting with Meng Xiangping, but she didn't say it at the last minute.
The EDA software developed by Luo Yao himself was so incredible that Xia Qing decided to let the people in the EDA department test it first.
After Xia Qing confirmed the meeting time with the EDA department , she said to Luo Yao, "We're going to Huaji's 012 lab now. Are you afraid?"
Luo Yao looked at her calmly and said, "Why are you afraid?"
"Laboratory 012 is the center of Huaji's scientific research. It brings together scientists and top engineers. After seeing 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 true nature of his software.
The peep show will eventually be exposed.
Luo Yao wasn't afraid at all. A glint of anticipation shone in his eyes. "Those people are really smart? So when can we go? I do have some questions I'd like to discuss with them."
I'm really not afraid.
Xia Qing was silent.
Judging from Luo Yao's various behaviors, 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 the others!
Is this something a freshman can do?
Xia Qing found it unbelievable. The only explanation now was that Luo Yao had indeed developed an EDA, but this EDA was either a copycat software or had its functions removed.
However, no matter which one it was, Xia Qing felt that Luo Yao's strength was much higher than she expected.
01 2 The laboratory is located at the Huaji headquarters in Dongcheng. Xia Qing took Luo Yao and drove all the way to Huaji's headquarters.
"Is this a resort?" As soon as he got off the car, Luo Yao was surprised by Huaji's office building.
Lush plants surround the unique buildings. It seems that the creator has spared no effort to display his aesthetic taste here. Each building is integrated with the surrounding plants. The sunlight here is not dazzling, just like the light cast by a crystal chandelier, which makes people indulge in it.
This place is beautiful.
Luo Yao, who had never been to such a beautiful place, couldn't help but take a few more glances at the lake not far away.
Before getting off the bus, Xia Qing told Luo Yao, "Don't be afraid when you get in. Just answer whatever they ask."
Luo Yao didn't understand why Xia Qing was worried that he was scared. If he was really scared, he wouldn't have come to Dongcheng.
After Luo Yao nodded, Xia Qing let him get out of the car, and the two of them then entered a six-story building - Huayan Institute.
After entering the Huayan Institute, Xia Qing brought Luo Yao to the conference room.
After pushing open the door, Luo Yao discovered that the room was already full of people.
As soon as they appeared, everyone's attention was focused on Xia Qing and him.
Xia Qing took the laptop, placed it on the conference room table, and said straight to the point: "Here is an EDA software that everyone needs to take a look at."
"Old Peng, here's the notebook for you. Please organize everyone to take a look at it." Xia Qing said and handed the notebook to a gray-haired man.
He is the prototype verification review expert in the department, Peng Li.
When he received the notebook, he clicked a few times and his eyes immediately became focused.
"Specification specification, functional simulation, CDC check, RTL coding, clock tree synthesis, static timing, ECO, post-simulation, both front-end design functions and back-end are included!"
"Dai Guangchao, call your people over to test this software immediately!" Peng Li shouted loudly to the testing team sitting in the corner.
When Dai Guangchao heard Peng Li's call, he hurriedly asked someone to take the computer and walk over quickly. The others looked curious, wondering what had happened to make Peng Li so excited.
In the entire conference room, no one made a sound except for the occasional whispers from the test group.
"No, we can't just test this part. We also need to find an architect and a system solution engineer to take a look." Dai Guangchao adjusted his glasses, stood up, and began searching for the person he wanted to find in the conference room.
"Manager Acting, they're still in the R&D center. President Meng gave them a task earlier. They told Ye Ming they'd be here in ten minutes."
Dai Guangchao glared and yelled at the technical manager He Shuzhen who was speaking, "What are you waiting for ten minutes?! Hurry and get them over here!"
Is the situation so urgent?
He Shuzhen couldn't figure it out, but she immediately sent a message to Ye Ming through the internal IM system.
Soon, a man and a woman hurried in. When Dai Guangchao saw them, he immediately waved to them to come over.
The entire conference room was filled with more intense keyboard sounds. 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 Yeming sat up straight in disbelief.
Xia Qing couldn't help but ask, "How?"
"There is no problem at all with the entire system's internal logical process ." Xiang Yeming's eyes did not leave the computer interface. While answering the questions, he was also watching the architect Pei Yun's operation.
"It's unbelievable! This architecture is not from Synopsys, 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's tone was filled with disbelief.
"You have to 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 other EDA software that can cover the entire chip design process!"
“Even Siemens hasn’t achieved this level through acquisitions!”
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 software from here and there.
"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 in actual use it can support supercomputing to improve the overall computing power."
"Isn't it supercomputing or cloud computing?" Xia Qing remembered that Luo Yao asked her to borrow the use rights of the supercomputing.
"We confirmed that it's a supercomputer, not for general commercial software. It seems the developers don't want the software to be connected to a cloud server in the early stages. This actually aligns with our approach to R&D: cutting-edge technology isn't open to public use in the early stages."
In order to form a technological barrier, the most important thing is to do a good job of confidentiality. Otherwise, once the technology is leaked, what kind of barrier will there be?
The scalability of supercomputers 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 supercomputers cannot. There are strict requirements for each node and bandwidth. However, the confidentiality of access to supercomputers is much stronger than that of cloud computing.
"It's so easy for developers to get into cloud computing. It's just a matter of adding a module!"
"In addition, its front-end compilation processing engine is fully capable of designing and launching a wide range of projects. Simply put, if others want to use it, they can support their business with very little initial deployment cost, which is extremely beneficial for the companies using it."
"Which company developed this EDA?!" Pei Yun's voice trembled a little. The answer she wanted to hear most was that a Chinese company developed this EDA.
If this EDA is developed by a Chinese company, she has full confidence that it can compete with Synopsys and Cadence!
"It's not the company." Xia Qing didn't need to look to know that everyone in the conference room was looking at her.
"It's not a company? Which R&D center is it?" Xia Qing's words successfully aroused Peng Li's curiosity.
"Yes..." Xia Qing subconsciously looked for Luo Yao.
This is really strange. Luo Yao was just next to me, why is he gone now?
Xia Qing looked behind the crowd and found Luo Yao lying on a chair, fast asleep.
???
You're really not nervous at all, right?
Xia Qing was really speechless. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, she had no choice but to walk over 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."
The people in the conference room were stunned after hearing Xia Qing's words.
What's the meaning?
The EDA software they praised so much was actually developed by the kid in front of them?
What an international joke!
Luo Yao woke up and finally regained some consciousness after seeing Xia Qing.
"They didn't get to the point. I was so sleepy that I fell asleep." Luo Yao was telling the truth. He hadn't had a rest during this period. He wrote code whenever he had time, and he didn't get enough rest.
He was listening to people talking in the conference room just now, but he wasn't particularly interested, so he found a comfortable chair in the conference room and fell asleep.
“…”
There was a collective silence in the conference room.
What was this kid saying just now?!
Did they miss the point?
They are a group of top engineers in the country, yet they said that they didn't hit the point. Why is this kid so arrogant?
Noticing the bad atmosphere in the conference room, Xia Qing hurriedly said, "What's the key point? Tell us."
Luo Yao sighed, feeling the disappointment of a down-and-out painter who had created a masterpiece that would be passed down through the ages but no one could appreciate it.
“In fact, the best part of this system’s design is the front-end design.”
"Nowadays, more and more transistors can be integrated into a chip per unit area, and chip power consumption and heat generation have become problems. You should all know that EM effects are very likely to occur in this situation."
"The current solution is to use power consumption calculation tools in EDA, but traditional methods are too time-consuming and inaccurate, which can lead to problems during later verification. Once this happens, the entire delivery time will be extended."
"That's why I built a logic circuit average toggle rate prediction architecture based on a random forest model, using machine learning to predict power consumption."
Dai Guangchao's eyes widened when he heard this.
