After the second-generation semi-lithography machine was formed, the manpower organized by Zhao Ye was also stepping up the design of various application chips based on its processing technology characteristics.
In fact, there are many kinds of chips used in a kind of equipment, and not all chips need to be produced with the latest photolithography machines. Therefore, in the No. 8 laboratory of the entire joint factory, each team has made strict inspections on their work.
Plan and set a timetable.
The first thing Zhao Ye does when he comes to work every day is to check the schedule of each project team. Which part is ahead of schedule and which part is behind? These are all issues that Zhao Ye, the chief designer, needs to be concerned about.
If a group has been stuck on a problem for a long time, this is the time for Zhao Ye to show his power. He often won't tell you what to do is right, but he can clearly tell you what to do is wrong.
These dedicated researchers had only worked with Zhao Ye for a month and were deeply impressed by his "ability".
Therefore, the current project team has a god-like trust in Zhao Ye. They all firmly believe that as long as they persist in working, they will be able to achieve the final victory under the leadership of Zhao Ye.
In a word, the military spirit is available!
All that's left is the equipment.
It is impossible for Zhao Ye to let everyone draw pictures on manuscript paper. For now, simple chips can still do it. Once the pre-research of a new type of main chip begins, drawing drawings will be a joke.
No one can draw tens of thousands of transistor circuit diagrams on a piece of paper. Even if they can draw it, it is estimated that no one can understand it.
Not to mention, it is impossible for a single person to draw a chip.
When Zhao Ye and the others were working on the Sugon series of computers, although the drawings at that time were paper work, after all, the level of integration was still very low. In addition, countless people worked hard to light up the drawings and boil the oil. Only then did they have a little bit of success.
Assure.
But even then, the drawings were full of errors and omissions. In the end, Zhao Ye used the simulation capabilities provided by space to go through it on his own system, and then corrected those bugs that were difficult to see.
Zhao Ye urgently needs professional drawing software. A drawing software that can draw, debug, annotate, and manage together.
After the success of the second-generation semi-lithography machine, Zhao Ye put this software problem in the first queue waiting to be solved. Also in this queue were monitors and display chips.
Although there are ready-made display chips, the performance of this chip is really poor. It can control a small dot matrix display screen. The chips later developed for TV screens mainly convert digital signals into analog signals.
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Both of these methods were not precise enough, at least for drawing, there was no need to think about it. Zhao Ye looked through the information in the system, and finally decided to get the CRT monitor commonly used in later generations.
For no other reason, the main reason is that it is simple and can be implemented quickly. At present, we already have the ability to produce TV sets. Although the screen is small and black and white, the basic technology can still be mastered.
Zhao Ye did not expect the other party to work with him to tackle the problem this time. He directly asked the relevant manufacturers to specially make a batch of picture tubes for him, with a flat right angle and a size of 14 inches.
As for other things, they are not used at all. With the help of the system, Zhao Ye assembled a set of small manual equipment in his laboratory to apply phosphor to the inside of the picture tube. This has certain technical aspects, but the main purpose is
The requirements for application equipment are relatively high. Zhao Ye cheated here and came up with a mature plan at once.
In addition to the picture tube, there are also display motherboards, vertical and horizontal electromagnetic deflection coils. This thing is used to restrain the charged particles emitted by the high-frequency head. The biggest difference between the spherical display and the flat right-angle display is that the coil and the picture tube are finally broken.
High frequency head.
On this high-frequency head, the biggest difference between digital display and analog display appears. In digital display, its video circuit is a digital signal, that is, its signal processing mechanism is based on the digital image data sent from the main circuit board.
Line by line scanning produces different electron beams to achieve the display function on the screen.
This is our common concept of resolution. For example, when we say a monitor has a resolution of 800*600, it actually means that this monitor has 400,000 display squares. In the traditional sense, an analog signal display (TV)
Its resolution refers to stripes of various colors arranged at equal intervals. The resolution at this time is often called XX line for this principle.
With Zhao Ye's tinkering, it didn't take long before a bare digital display was placed in front of everyone. But no one took it too seriously.
After all, this display screen is indeed larger, but it is just larger. This particularity cannot attract the attention of these well-informed researchers.
After Zhao Ye finished debugging the monitor, he stopped caring about it and began to draw the circuit diagram of the display chip.
This chip is completely based on the display he just made. After all, this is the only kind of display currently, and there is no need to make the chip highly compatible. In fact, even if Zhao Ye wants to be compatible, he must have other displays.
Let him make it compatible! At least this is the only one in the whole country, not to mention the whole world. Why do you want him to make it so complicated?
However, this chip is still very difficult. Zhao Ye did not find anyone else this time, and he did not even alert his teacher. He just silently built and tested it over and over in the space until he succeeded.
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After the design is completed, manufacturing still needs to be completed. Zhao Ye's time is too tight. He spends most of his day coordinating the work of various groups. Many times, he has to do explanations and experiments himself. There is also a very bad researcher.
The only thing is that you are very good at persuading someone with words. There is no way, usually at this time, Zhao Ye will choose to speak with facts. And often speaking with facts is a waste of time and energy.
This also greatly restricted Zhao Ye's own work progress.
Fortunately, he still has an apprentice.
When MCA was delivering food to Zhao Ye, Zhao Ye suddenly remembered that he also had an apprentice.
Ma Hua is now very good. He has only been working for a few years and has now been rated as a seventh-level worker. His job is to operate photolithography machines and etching machines. Since there are very few talents in this field and it is a new type of work,
The country generally treats this job as a fitter. Therefore, although Ma Hua is still very young, he is one of the first batch of photolithography machine operators in the country. It is fair to say that he is a seventh-level worker.
Zhao Ye remembered that after Ma Hua came, he asked him about his current job content. When he heard that he was still an operator, what else could he say? Of course he was transferred here.
Zhao Ye processed the mask with the power of space, and the remaining work was Ma Hua's. The second and a half generation photolithography machine is still very different from the previous one, especially in operation. Although Ma Hua is also a skilled worker
, but the success rate on this new device is not high.
Zhao Ye doesn't worry about this. It's just a waste of time and materials. It's not a big deal.
That's how Zhao Ye was able to squeeze out some time to focus on the development of new computers.
The new computer is still improved on the blueprint of Shuguang 2. The design concept of Shuguang 2 is very advanced, and at least it can do parallel computing without any problem.
However, Shuguang-2 also has its weaknesses, that is, it is a computer purely for calculation. It is powerful in logical operations, but it has to do multimedia data processing, which is its weakness. The most important thing here
The reason is that the instruction set in its core processor (CPU) has a single function.
In order to realize Zhao Ye's ideal functions, its core processor must also be modified, and at least some instruction sets must be added so that it can support the currently required multimedia processing tasks.
Time passed day by day in such busyness. In the blink of an eye, a Spring Festival came to the world.
Ma Hua told Zhao Ye about the Spring Festival several times, but Zhao Ye was either immersed in space or immersed in various diagrams. Ma Hua felt a little distressed when he saw it. In fact, it was not just Ma Hua, everyone who worked together here
Most people have almost never seen Zhao Ye go home. No matter how late they leave or how early they come, they can always see Zhao Ye in the laboratory.
In fact, they don't know that Zhao Ye has never gone back since he entered the laboratory. This can be seen from his clothes. It was only after Ma Hua came to work in the laboratory recently that Zhao Ye started to change clothes every now and then.
Clothes, this is what Ding Qiunan asked MCA to bring him every time.
During the Spring Festival, Zhao Ye was still working and had no intention of going home. On the last day of the holiday, he asked MCA to bring a message to Ding Qiunan, saying that he should seize the time in these two days to make up for the work he had missed.
In fact, what Zhao Ye wanted to do was to take advantage of the two days when there was no one in the factory to make a good "rubbing".
A new generation of processors was created by Zhao Ye. The design of this thing relied on space, and the production relied on hands, and then used the space to copy some in batches. The display chips were also created, saying that the chips may not be accurate.
The chip was produced by MCA. Zhao Ye packaged the chip produced by MCA and installed it on his improved graphics card.
For the connection between the graphics card and the monitor, Zhao Ye simply found a few wires, tied them up, and made a plug at both ends.
When everyone came to work the next year, a computer that no one had ever seen was already placed in a corner of the laboratory.
Everyone has extremely complicated emotions when they see this thing.
How should I put it? It’s very Zhao Ye’s style, simple and rough!
The chassis is just an iron frame, with a thin plate on the outside using screws, and holes are simply made for various peripheral interfaces. Everyone looks at the edges of the holes, and there are some sharp burrs.
The monitor is quite high-end, but unfortunately it still looks quite crude. High-end means that the screen is very large, and simplicity means that the entire monitor is also an iron frame, covered with a wooden board, and several rows of heat dissipation holes were drilled on the wooden board with an electric drill.
The keyboard is still the same keyboard, but what is that thing next to the keyboard? I have never seen this before.