I've done whatever I want

Open the bow without turning back the arrow!

After the Anti-War project was established, Xin Tong quickly devoted himself to chip analog circuit design and became a member of the project team. Specifically, he was responsible for analog circuit debugging.

Tian Tianle serves as the chief architect of the entire chip design project. He is responsible for defining the chip Spec, building the top-level architecture and modeling, performing high-level simulations, organizing team debugging, and also managing the design of logic circuits. His fingers are flexibly moving every day. As I typed on the keyboard, strings of codes jumped from time to time on the computer screen, like a group of elves dancing.

Those were the days when there was no AFK. Two students who graduated from Tsinghua University were pushing the MCU chip project forward. They would often argue with each other over a bug verified by EDA simulation. But work was work, and they got off work in the middle of the night. We met again to go to a roadside tavern for a late-night snack and recalled every detail of studying at Tsinghua University.

The days of chip design were monotonous and boring, and time flew by like lightning. Soon it came to the summer of 2013, when the first lotus bloomed by the Huizhi Lake. The work of MCU chip circuit design was basically completed. Tian Tianle verified the EDA The problems verified with FPGA were compiled into a Sighting List, and the responsible persons for the 20 Bugs were also identified.

"Brother Xin, according to my understanding, we expect to complete all debugging work within a week. The back-end layout and routing PR work is also progressing very quickly. We hope to tape out within a month!" Tian Tianle said.

"It seems that the progress of the anti-war project is good. We hope to pass it in one version. It would be a miracle if a complex chip like MCU can pass it in one version!" Xin Tong said with emotion.

"We are [-]% sure that the first version will be successful, but the answer will not be revealed until the tape-out is completed!" Tian Tianle is full of confidence.

"I heard that more than 100 foreigners participated in the design and development of Kilby Semiconductor's K100 MCU chip. It took them five years and two ECO revisions before the tape-out was successful." Xin Tong thought of his old employer Kilby.

"It is not easy to design a complex chip like MCU. If it can be brought up and lit up, it is considered a success." Tian Tianle smiled lightly.

"Yes!" Xin Tong nodded.

"Brother Xing, let's have a good chat about the next tape-out. Currently, the project team still prefers to tape-out at SMIC. As a novice in the industry, a world-class wafer fab like TSMC will not pay attention to us at all. ." Tian Tianle said.

"We can only turn to Smick in this situation. I believe that in the future, SFMC will beg us to place an order for them!" Xin Tong was full of confidence.

"Brother Xing, are you free in the afternoon? Let's go to SMIC to talk to the Fab factory about tape-out? I have made an appointment with the operations director of their Fab [-] factory." Tian Tianle said, as a novice in the chip design industry, not only will he be influenced by the world Discrimination from level [-] wafer fabs, even domestic wafer fabs require parents to sue grandma before they reluctantly agree to tape-out.

There is no way, chip design companies are like this in their initial stages.

"Okay!" Xin Tong nodded. Now that the circuit design work has been basically completed, tape-out has become the most important thing for the company. Can he not care?

Smick's Fab [-] is not far from Pudong Software Park. The two had Chinese food at Huizhi International Business Center and walked straight towards Smick.

The Fab factory was very spectacular. The factory building stretched endlessly. After registering in the security room, the two entered the factory. The clerk at the front desk greeted them with a smile and took them to the Huangshan conference room: "The two gentlemen were in the meeting. Please wait a moment in the room, I will notify Mr. Zhang to come over immediately."

"Okay!" Tian Tianle nodded.

Seeing the clerk closing the door and walking out of the conference room, Tian Tianle turned around and said, "Brother Xing, Mr. Zhang from SMIC is also a graduate of our Tsinghua University. I only found out his contact information through my undergraduate class teacher."

"That's great!" Xin Tong said.

"If it weren't for the sake of the alumni relationship, it would be difficult for us to film in SMIC!" Tian Tianle said.

"Everything is difficult at the beginning!" Xin Tong said with emotion.

As they were talking, the door of the conference room was lightly knocked, and a middle-aged man walked in.

Xin Tong looked up and was stunned. "Zhang Kaijun!"

"Xin Tong!"

Xin Tong really didn't expect that the Mr. Zhang that Tian Tianle said was Zhang Kaijun. He had not seen him since they said goodbye in 2004. It has been nine years now.

"Please sit down! Please sit down!" Zhang Kaijun responded quickly and greeted the two of them enthusiastically.

"You two know each other?" Tian Tianle was stunned.

"Yes, Xin Tong is my roommate in Magnolia Garden!" Zhang Kaijun said.

"He was also my roommate when I was studying for graduate school at Tsinghua University!" Tian Tianle said.

"Xin Tong, you also went to Tsinghua University?" Zhang Kaijun was shocked.

"Yes!" Xin Tong nodded.

"Then what job do you do at Jinshi Technology?" Zhang Kaijun asked curiously. In his memory, Xin Tong was doing packaging at the Mingyueguang packaging and testing factory.

"Mr. Zhang, Brother Xin is the boss of our Jinshi Technology! Sorry, I forgot to introduce you just now!" Tian Tianle said with a smile.

"Boss?" Zhang Kaijun was stunned upon hearing this.

He has worked in a Fab factory for many years and has met many chip design companies. He knows very well that the chip design industry is very expensive. Bosses who can invest in the development of MCU chips are generally worth over [-] million yuan.

So Xin Tong is a billionaire?

The scene from nine years ago once again appeared in his mind. At that time, Xin Tong was ordinary and he often encouraged him to buy a property. Unfortunately, Xin Tong was not moved by the skyrocketing property market.

"I'm just joking! Mr. Zhang, do you have Yuan Chengxu's contact information?" Xin Tong smiled lightly.

"Lao Yuan? He has disappeared from the world!" Zhang Kaijun shook his head.

"is it?"

"Lao Yuan used to open a chip design company called Xinwu. Xinwu has been taping out at SMIC. Unfortunately, their company closed down in 2008, and I have never contacted him again. I have never heard of him again in so many years. I have read the news about his startup. If he still starts a business and designs chips, he will definitely come to me for tape-out." Zhang Kaijun looked a little sad when he said this.

"What a pity. Lao Yuan is a man of real talent and learning, a top student at Peking University. I am very impressed by his original Buddha circuit!" Xin Tong also sighed with emotion.

"Lao Yuan worked for me before, and I know the company Xinwu quite well. Lao Yuan believes in Buddhism and has social fears. The management of Xinwu Company has not been good, and his wife later divorced him. In 2008, the company was hit by the market and closed down. He is a very strong person at heart, how could he withstand such a big blow?" Zhang Kaijun shook his head.

"Yeah! This is a big blow." Xin Tong nodded.

"He has been obsessed with Buddhism all his life. I suspect that he has become a monk after seeing through the world of mortals!" Zhang Kaijun said.