Chapter 327: Sacrifice the Small Family for the Whole
Before we know it, another Lunar New Year is here.
After many days of continuous work, the progress of EDA tool research and development is ahead of schedule.
If nothing goes wrong, the first version of the EDA tool can be completed within a month.
At this time, some employees of Fulun Technology took the initiative to apply for voluntary overtime work.
"Mr. Luo, let's not go home for the New Year this year. The project is about to be completed. Let's work harder and strive to complete the entire set of EDA tools in the first month of the year and enter the testing phase."
"That's right, Mr. Luo. It's okay not to go home for the New Year for a year. Every day is very important now, so try not to delay it."
Luo Wenkun had never thought that his employees would take the initiative to work overtime during the Chinese New Year and not even go home.
You know, most of the company's employees do not live in Jijing, and they may not be able to go home once a year.
It’s not that they don’t want to go home, but for the sake of everyone, they would rather give up their small homes temporarily.
Luo Wenkun was also very touched that they had such a desire.
Because more and more employees voluntarily applied to work overtime in the company during the Chinese New Year, Luo Wenkun had to explain this matter to everyone.
"In principle, the company does not encourage people to work overtime during the Chinese New Year. Our work is indeed important, but it does not affect our normal lives. The Chinese New Year is a traditional festival for us Chinese people. Going home to celebrate the New Year and reuniting with family is a right that everyone should have. Leaders of all departments of the company are not allowed to encourage people to work overtime during the Chinese New Year for any reason."
Luo Wenkun really doesn't want everyone to work overtime during the New Year.
This is a very difficult thing for those employees whose homes are not in Jijing.
It is completely acceptable to delay the progress for a few days.
Luo Wenkun was a little worried because these employees who volunteered to work overtime made other employees feel embarrassed to go home for the New Year.
But in order to accompany these employees who volunteer to work overtime, Luo Wenkun must also set an example and stay in the company with the employees.
After learning the news, Xu You, like Luo Wenkun, chose not to go home for the New Year.
Given Xu You’s current status, it would be quite troublesome for him to go home the New Year.
Since so many employees have voluntarily proposed not to go home for the New Year, Xu You doesn't want to go back and forth anymore. He decides to stay in Jijing so that he can keep up to date with the latest progress of the project.
After knowing that Xu You would not return home this year, Xu Zhou decided to bring his family to Jijing to visit Xu You during the New Year and play in Jijing for a few days.
Xu You also agreed with this proposal, which was a very best of both worlds approach.
In this way, Xu You, Luo Wenkun, and many employees of the company spent New Year's Eve in Jijing.
With the joint efforts of employees.
The first version of the EDA tool was finally completed during the first month of the year.
Next, we entered the EDA testing work.
During the testing work, people responsible for chip design are needed to help with software testing.
Because they were used to mainstream EDA, they were not very adaptable to this new EDA software at first.
However, after getting used to the new EDA interface, their overall evaluation of this EDA is still very high.
In order to highlight the theme of "Loongson", this EDA has a fully Chinese operating interface, which will make the learning cost much lower for Chinese people.
The software supports common hardware languages such as Verilog and VHDL, and is simpler in various operations than several mainstream EDAs.
After a period of testing, the chip designers summarized some bugs and deficiencies and reported them to the software department.
There are more than a hundred bugs, software deficiencies, etc. in total.
Of course, for a brand new software, this is already an excellent performance.
After learning the news, Luo Wenkun immediately informed Xu You.
"In the first round of testing of our Fulong EDA, the overall performance is quite good. Although there are some bugs and shortcomings, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. According to colleagues in the chip design department, Fulong EDA is really very simple in operation, and the simulation degree is also very high, which is not inferior to those mainstream EDAs. It is estimated that after two more rounds of testing, it can be officially put into use. We are getting closer and closer to the launch of our first chip."
In fact, the chip design department has basically completed the chip design work through other EDAs.
However, due to copyright issues, these chips designed by other EDAs cannot be manufactured.
Even if there is no problem with the technology, there will still be the risk of being sued later.
But as long as Fulon EDA is officially launched, the previous chip design work does not need to be completely started over again.
It's just a change of tools, the main ideas are exactly the same.
"That's great. I will spend more time on this and try to help the team solve all these bugs and deficiencies as soon as possible."
With the joint efforts of Xu You and his employees.
After two more rounds of testing, Fulon EDA has finally solved all the problems that have arisen and is about to be officially released.
The Publicity Department of Fulun Technology Company officially announced the news.
"Fulong EDA, independently developed by Fulong Technology, is about to be officially released. This is the first EDA tool in China that integrates multiple functions such as digital design, analog design, functional verification, and manufacturing yield. In the future, we will realize chip design on the cloud, and welcome major chip design companies to try out Fulong EDA."
Many people do not understand the concept of EDA, do not know what EDA does, and how it is related to chip manufacturing.
But in the industry, this news undoubtedly caused heated discussions.
"Fulong Technology...actually independently completed the research and development of EDA for the entire industry chain? How, how is this possible?"
"This news does sound incredible. But it is said that Xu You is one of the shareholders of this company and has provided great help to the company in the research and development of various technologies. Xu You is not only a physicist, but also has extremely high attainments in informatics."
"With our own EDA industry chain, we are one step closer to achieving complete chip independence. I just don't know how well Fulong Technology's EDA works and whether it can design high-quality chips."
After Fulon EDA passed the company's final test, the company's chip design department has begun using Fulon EDA to carry out chip design work.
Luo Wenkun, Xu You, and the company's senior executives discussed the future issues of EDA.
"Although the cost of moving chip design to the cloud is very high, in order to make Fulong EDA truly a mainstream EDA in the future, it is only a matter of time before it moves to the cloud."
