I've done whatever I want

After Tian Tianle drew up the Milestone of the project, he used the WPS tool to decompose the work. Now the most difficult thing encountered in the MCU chip project is the shortage of manpower. Without a team, everything is a castle in the air.

"Brother Xin, after we build the chip design team, these WPS can be implemented!" Tian Tianle said with the WPS form in his hand.

"Everything is difficult at the beginning, so I will work hard on you in the early stage of the project. For us at Jinshi Technology, money is not an issue. I have already said hello to Xiaoyu. Within three months, all the people you want will be in place!" Le's shoulder said.

"that is really good!"

"You mentioned competing products last time, has Zhu Tao prepared samples for you?" Xin Tong asked with concern. After all, analyzing the design goals of competing products to form a chip is the first step in chip design work.

"Brother Xin, I received a competing product yesterday. Designing is a very rigorous matter. It is not enough for us to only look at the Data Sheet provided by the manufacturer. We must understand the performance of competing products so that when we design, Only then will the designed chips be competitive." After Tianle finished speaking, he took out an ESD anti-static bag from his pocket, and the competing products were placed in the ESD bag.

"Lele, you are so right!" Xin Tong recalled his experience as a Sales Manager in Kilby. He also worked as a FAE engineer for a period of time, so he had a certain understanding of the gap between DataSheet and chip performance. The performance indicators written in books are often far from the actual ones. Domestic chip manufacturers like to mark performance indicators towards the upper limit, and even write out-of-reach indicators into the Datasheet specifications. Big foreign brands are very rigorous. , given enough Margin, the indicator will generally be marked towards the lower limit of the data.

"With competing products in hand, we can start the work before chip design. The focus now is to conduct in-depth research on these competing products." Tian Tianle said while looking at the ESD anti-static bag in his hand.

"Lele, our FAE application engineers are familiar with the analysis of competing MCUs. You first list the key performance indicators you want to pay attention to, and I will immediately arrange for manpower to help you test it!" Xin Tong smiled slightly.

"Do we have a test board and Socket?" Tian Tianle asked curiously.

"Jinshi Technology is the agent of Kilby Semiconductor. We have the test board and Socket of the K100 MCU chip. XT Semiconductor's XTM32 and K100 MCUs are Pin to Pin. We can share the test platform." Xin Tong nodded.

Chip design starts with MCU because the company has a solid foundation in this area.

"It's really great." Tian Tianle said.

If there is no test platform, it is not easy to make a test board, debug the test environment, and rebuild an MCU test platform. It will take at least two or three months.

That day, the two took samples of competing MCU chips and headed into the testing laboratory with the company's FAE engineers.

Staring intently at the flashing waveforms on the oscilloscope, they carefully analyzed the key parameters on the chip manufacturer's data sheet while testing, and recorded in detail all the doubtful parts.

"Lele, are there any results for the competing products that were outsourced for area analysis?" Xin Tong asked during the break in electrical performance testing and analysis.

"The results are there. After decap analysis and measurement microscope analysis, I already have the data of the competing product Die Size. The difference in chip area between the two semiconductor giants Kilby and XT is not obvious." Tian Tianle nodded. .

"Are we confident that we can compete with foreign chips on the same stage?" After all, the chip area directly affects the cost. From a market perspective, Xin Tong knows that the cost of the chip is a sharp knife that cuts into the market.

"Brother Xin, I'll go back and evaluate the timing and power consumption of the chip design. It shouldn't be a big problem to reach the chip area of ​​competing products!" Tian Tianle pondered for a moment and said confidently.

At this time, the MCU architecture emerged in his mind, including IO, Standard cell and Macro block. "Lele, if the design area of ​​our MCU chips catches up with our competitors Kilby and XT, as long as the performance is not too far behind them, we will definitely become a hit!" Holding the two trump cards of manufacturing and sales, we must defeat pure chips. Design company, Xin Tong believes that with the cost advantage and response speed of Jinshi Technology, it will be a great success.

During that time, they were recruiting troops and buying horses while going into battle to kill the enemy in person.

Tian Tianle felt as if he had returned to the glorious years of his senior year in high school. The most important thing among a generation of top academics was the ambition to pursue success.

Xiaoyu, the person in charge of human resources and administration, is very helpful. Candidates came one after another, and many outstanding talents were retained after interviews and screening. With the addition of new designers, some trivial tasks were gradually broken down. By October, everything had changed significantly. At this time, the company's chip design team had expanded from 0 to 30 people. It took more than two months to prepare the preliminary work for the project. It’s ready. Regarding the MCU chip architecture design, Tian Tianle also completed the first draft ahead of schedule.

Everything seems to be going smoothly!
At the management's Q3 quarterly summary meeting, Xin Tong said with emotion: "Looking back on the road to entrepreneurship, we started as a distributor, then entered the low-end packaging market such as SOP and TO, developed the copper wire process, and now We have two factories that can do BGA packaging and are moving forward step by step. However, I always have a dream in my heart, which is to design Jinshi Technology’s own chips. With the joining of my Tsinghua roommate Tian Tianle, This dream is becoming a reality!”

After he finished speaking, he took a special look at Tian Tianle.

"We will definitely succeed!" Tian Tianle smiled slightly.

Xin Tong nodded: "Our first chip is a 32-bit high-end MCU. The project establishment work has been completed. I have kept the name of the project blank. Today is a management meeting. I want to hear everyone's suggestions! "

"Fight against me!" Logitech said without hesitation.

In Xin Tong, what he saw was an image of someone who kept moving forward in the face of adversity.

In 2002, he was just an operator. Ten years later, he has become a big boss who owns four companies and is worth over [-] million yuan.

"Polaris!" Zhu Tao stood up and said.

The company's first chip must be the incarnation of the boss. After following Xing Ge for so many years, he feels that Xin Tong is like a shining star, like the North Star, illuminating his way forward.

"I vote for Zhu Tao!" Cui Jie smiled slightly.

"Lele, what do you think?" Xin Tong turned around and asked.

"Xuan Tie!" Tian Tianle said.

Everyone was shocked when they heard it!

"In "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the Dark Iron Heavy Sword was once the sword of the sword demon Dugu Qiufeng, and was later obtained by Yang Guo. In the V0 version of "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Sword", all the Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Knives are Dark Iron Heavy Swords. It is made by casting it after fermentation. The dark iron is dark black in color, with a faint red light. It is extremely heavy, has a high melting point, and has magnetism. When it is sharpened, it cuts the iron like mud. The dark iron is extremely rare and has a special material. It is a sword forged with passion. It is an excellent material, and naming our first chip after black iron means that this chip will be as invincible as the Yitian Sword and Dragon Slaying Knife!" Tian Tianle smiled indifferently.

Over the years, he has been away from his hometown of Hangzhou to study, and now he is starting a business in Shanghai with Xin Tong. He feels like a swordsman traveling all over the world with his sword.