"What? You want us to try out the new domestic EDA again? Are you really treating us as a free testing tool?"

In the R&D center of Xia Xin Group, a well-known chip manufacturer in Xia State, Jiang Zhi, the director of the integrated circuit design department, was cursing in a low voice impatiently.

Already busy with research and development work, these so-called domestic EDA manufacturers only added to the chaos. They came over all day long with letters from superior science and technology departments requesting cooperation in testing, and asked Jiang Zhi and others to issue detailed trial reports.

How could this not make Jiang Zhi angry?

In fact, Jiang Zhi sincerely hopes that domestic EDA can be born and break the technology monopoly of the three foreign EDA giants.

As the integrated circuit design director of a domestic chip manufacturer, he is very familiar with the current technical risks in the domestic chip industry. Once the three major foreign EDA giants stop authorizing and updating Xiaxin Group, Xiaxin Group will immediately fall into difficulty.

In this situation, all employees in his integrated circuit design department will be immediately laid off, and may even be laid off and become unemployed.

Because of this, Jiang Zhi was still very excited when he received such a trial task for the first time, even though the domestic EDA tested was full of loopholes in his eyes, and both performance and functions were far inferior to those currently in use abroad.

EDA, he also invested 10% of his enthusiasm, led the technical staff to trial it repeatedly, and issued hundreds of pages of trial reports.

Then he handed in the report that he had condensed with countless efforts, but it was like nothing happened, with neither a word of praise or a word of thanks, nor any follow-up.

Next, several domestic EDA trial tasks came one after another, some were good and some were bad, but the so-called "good" was just a general among the dwarfs. For example, it could only perform relatively low-end analog/mathematical circuit design functions.

It is simply impossible to complete the entire process, let alone that there is a big gap between the performance and mature foreign products.

Jiang Zhi patiently issued the trial reports one by one, and to his disappointment, these trial reports were the same as before, without any feedback, and he did not see the so-called improved version sent for a second trial.

These constant negative feedbacks made Jiang Zhi's enthusiasm slowly fade.

What really hit him was that he received a similar trial task next. The name of the EDA manufacturer was unfamiliar, but their so-called domestic EDA was a reskinned version of the junk EDA he received for the first time. To put it bluntly,

, except for changing the color of the interface and changing the name, the functions are almost exactly the same, and even the bugs have not been touched.

Jiang Zhi continued to investigate, and the truth he learned made him pour cold water on him again.

It turns out that these two so-called domestic EDA manufacturers simply took an EDA code, made minor modifications and skin changes, and regarded it as their own scientific research results. They were sent trial reports just to have a "..." when applying for scientific research funds.

The "trial report" just proves the results.

When Jiang Zhiyi reported this problem to his boss angrily, his personal friend and his good boss whispered the cruel truth about the industry.

What Jiang Zhi found was not a eucalyptus, but a common problem.

The trial reports he carefully prepared before were all for this kind of use, so it is not surprising that they all fell into the dust. After those manufacturers got it, they probably didn't even read it, and just submitted it as information to get new scientific research funds.

After that, it was left in a corner to gather dust.

After Jiang Zhi was depressed for a few days, he was completely disappointed with domestic EDA.

As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Now Jiang Zhi is disgusted when he hears the trial task of domestic EDA, so he passes it on to the newcomers who have just entered his department, and just makes a template trial report to cope with it.

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On this day in mid-September, Jiang Zhi once again received a trial task for a domestic EDA, and this time it was a task directly issued by the technical president in charge of the R&D center.

"Stop complaining. This time is different from the past. It was a call from Secretary Lu himself, and the software was handed over to our group through special channels through the highest-level encrypted mobile hard drive. This shows that the superiors attach great importance to this

You must take the actual trial situation seriously. Well... let's just put down the work at hand and bring ten technical backbones. You don't have to do anything else in the next week, just focus on the trial of 'Qiguang EDA'

Task, be sure to issue the most detailed trial report on this 'Qiguang EDA'."

Jiang Zhi became anxious when he heard this: "Mr. He, no, the two projects I am following will be delivered at the end of the month. I can't..."

"This is an order, you must execute it! The work at hand will be handed over to the deputy in an hour. In addition, let me tell you that the data we provided last time was given to the Qiguang EDA technical team. It is said that the Qiguang EDA technical team is now

EDA has been able to completely complete the full-process design of 7nm chips."

Jiang Zhi rolled his eyes when he heard that. The last data? Wasn't that half a month ago?

You are bragging to the heavens! Even the three major foreign EDA giants, with mature software products in their hands, dare not say that they can complete a process level update within half a month! This Qiguang EDA team,

You really dare to brag. The key is that your superiors dare to believe it?

"Finally, let me say it again, Jiang Zhi, this is a task that must be completed seriously. Please do your best. There is no room for bargaining!"

Jiang Zhi usually had a very good relationship with Mr. He. This was the first time he heard him speak to him so seriously, so he could only say: "I understand, Mr. He, I will complete the task."

After the call ended, Jiang Zhi reluctantly handed over the work in hand, and selected ten senior design engineers in the department who were used to using mainstream foreign EDA. They went to Mr. He to receive UKEY, and then led the team.

Go to the designated workspace.

The computers here are installed with the Lime operating system (Longteng Zaitian Special Edition). They are all unable to connect to the Internet. They can only be used by inserting the authorized UKEY. Even the use of the USB port is strictly restricted. You can only copy data into the computer.

The data cannot be copied out. It is usually used to process important documents that Xiaxin Group needs to keep confidential.

Unexpectedly, Mr. He would attach so much importance to this trial of domestic EDA software. Jiang Zhi couldn't help complaining. It was obviously just a formality, but Mr. He wanted to act like a powerful domestic EDA software was born.

Mr. He has arranged for technicians to install Qiguang EDA on eleven computers in advance.

Jiang Zhi suppressed his discomfort and repeatedly emphasized the discipline and attitude issues to the ten technical backbones responsible for this trial task before logging into the system with the authorized UKEY.

At a glance, he saw an icon with the word "Qi Guang" on the desktop. The icon was beautifully designed, and the two artistic words "Qi Guang" had the power of a dragon flying to the nine heavens.

Jiang Zhi took a deep breath and silently recited "This is a work task that must be taken seriously" several times before running the Qiguang EDA.

When the software is opened, the first thing that appears in front of you is a two-second animation of "Qi Guang - Light of Qi Guo Xin", and then you enter the main interface.

Hey, so fast!

Jiang Zhi was a little surprised. You must know that EDA software is very complicated and requires countless resources. Even for internationally mainstream EDA software, it usually takes about 15 seconds from starting the program to entering the main interface.

As for domestic EDA, it is much faster because of its simple functions, only taking about 6 seconds.

In comparison, the startup speed of this Qiguang EDA is undoubtedly amazingly fast.

Jiang Zhidu subconsciously wondered whether Qiguang EDA was just an empty interface with an interface - of course, the possibility of this was too low. Even if some domestic EDA manufacturers had no moral integrity, they would not dare to do this.

As usual, Jiang Zhi first opened the software version information and displayed "Qi Guang".

Beta?

Jiang Zhi was surprised again. Generally, those sent for trial use would be the "official version". No matter how few functions or how many bugs there were, he would still dare to write an "official version" for the purpose of applying for new scientific research funds in the future. After all,

The results of launching the "official version" are undoubtedly much more impressive than the "test version".

This Qiguang EDA is a bachelor, and it actually directly states that it is a beta version.

Jiang Zhi then took a closer look at the main interface of the entire software, huh?

System on chip (SoC) design, integrated circuit (IC) layout design, digital logic circuit design, analog circuit design, digital-analog hybrid design, programmable logic device (PLD) and programmable system chip (SOPC) design, printed circuit

Board (PCB) design, application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and application-specific standard product (ASSP) design, software and hardware co-design, embedded system design, simulation verification and testing...

An internationally mature high-end full-featured EDA actually has all the functions?

Jiang Zhi's waist straightened up subconsciously while he was sitting lazily. He directly tried the most commonly used IC layout design and found that the whole process was very smooth, intelligent and efficient, and... it really worked!

It only took Jiang Zhi about fifteen minutes to complete an IC design drawing with basic functions. The efficiency was frightening. If placed in the international EDA software that he was used to, the same work would have taken at least about forty minutes!

This is mainly due to the fact that the software itself runs very fast and the intelligent assistance function is very good. Not only can it automatically complete a lot of detailed design work that needs to be repeated, but the key is that it can automatically correct errors. Jiang Zhi deliberately made a mistake during the design.

After making a small mistake, the software quickly prompted "A logical error was found, do you want to automatically fix it?" After Jiang Zhi confirmed it, the software automatically completed the error correction, and then prompted "If similar logical errors are found later, do you want to continue to prompt or automatically correct it?"

?" Jiang Zhi chose automatic correction, and then deliberately made similar mistakes again. Sure enough, the software automatically corrected it in the next second.

Awesome! Jiang Zhi's originally straight waist has leaned forward slightly, and the impatience on his face has long since disappeared, replaced by surprise and concentration.

He tried it step by step until the final simulation verification, and found no problems in the whole process!

This...is this really a purely domestic EDA developed in China? If the domestic EDA software he had seen before was like a thatched house with air leakage everywhere, the Qiguang EDA in front of him was a gorgeously decorated and practical business building with a height of 30 floors. That kind!

Jiang Zhi sat in front of the computer in shock, and continued to try to design SOPC for a while...

Jiang Zhi never left his seat until it was time to get off work. It wasn't until someone tapped him on the shoulder that he came back to his senses as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"Director Jiang, this Qiguang EDA is not only usable, but also extremely easy to use! The last time I felt like this was when I was trying out the Lime operating system two years ago." The one who patted Jiang Zhi on the shoulder was someone with the same background. The technical backbone with whom Jiang Zhi usually has a close relationship is named Ma Guangxin.

Ma Guangxin's face was also full of incredible exclamation: "And I looked at its help file, my dear, it mentioned the use of a new self-designed modular main frame structure, which is different from all existing EDAs. I have verified it repeatedly and carefully, and it seems to be telling the truth. This design concept is completely different from the EDA of the three major international manufacturers, Synopsys and S, and I think it is more advanced."

Jiang Zhi hadn't noticed what Ma Guangxin said about the main frame structure. He pointed at the screen in a daze and said: "Guangxin, did you see that I just... used this software to design a 7nm chip, although I just used it. The previous simple test example, but no errors were reported in the whole process, it is really... designed! This Qiguang EDA can really design 7nm chips! Mr. He did not lie to me!"

At this moment, Jiang Zhi felt that he had long been disappointed with domestic EDA, and his lost enthusiasm and hope were suddenly rekindled, ignited by the Qiguang EDA in front of him, which was claimed to be the "Light of Qiguo Core"!

If this Qiguang EDA is truly purely domestically produced and original and fully possesses independent intellectual property rights, it will undoubtedly be a landmark achievement! It far surpasses the great existence of other domestic EDAs currently! It will also contribute to Xia Guo’s integrated circuits. Provide strong support and guarantee for the sustainable and healthy development of the industry!

For Jiang Zhi, with such excellent domestic EDA, he no longer has to worry about unemployment or unemployment.

Jiang Zhi couldn't help but turn around and ask the other technical backbones participating in the trial: "What is the trial going on over there?"

"It's amazing. It's beyond my expectation. It works! It's easy to use! It's even better than the EDA software of the three major international giants!"

"It runs very smoothly. I have been trying to design a very complex circuit diagram just now, but the running speed has never been laggy at all. If I switch to other international EDA software, the response will be a little slow because the cache is too large! This should be The help brought by advanced algorithms, there is no doubt that the advanced algorithms used in this EDA are the best I have ever seen, bar none!"

"I haven't found any bugs yet, but I've only tried a quarter of the functions. Damn it, these functions... are so many and perfect! How can this be called a beta version? It's obviously the official version!

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"I did find a problem. It does not support the international mainstream IP core. It should be that it has not obtained authorization and uses the IP core developed by China National."

"If our national core wants to embark on the road of independence, this problem is not a problem at all, but an opportunity for improvement, and it can even be said to be a guiding path."

"I feel like I'm on fire. The working efficiency of this Qiguang EDA is so high. It's a bit similar to the Lime operating system, both of which are highly automated and intelligent."

"It's over. I feel like in this trial report, I only thought about how to praise and praise it. I didn't find any shortcomings at all... It doesn't look like a high-level EDA that the Chinese can develop. Is this a shortcoming?"

Jiang Zhi's heart felt warm for some reason as he listened to the excited discussions among his colleagues.
To be continued...