Imperial Capital, Haidian District, south of Zhongguancun. There are many government agencies at the feet of the Emperor.
Xiao Jinlang took the opportunity to return, and the same car picked him up and went directly to the Imperial Control Engineering Research Institute.
The area around this place is full of important scientific research institutions, and the signs always read, ‘Chinese Academy of Sciences, etc.’. There are armed police standing guard everywhere, and you can’t get in without relevant documents.
The name "Control Engineering Research Institute" sounds ordinary, but many domestic satellites are produced here. There are a lot of national and ministerial experts, and the number of academicians is in double digits.
The '**Daily' sign didn't work here. After Xiao Jinlang followed him in, he sat down in the reception room in a polite manner, and there was nothing wrong with him.
The electronic devices and cutting-edge CPU provided by Zhou Qingfeng were handed in. Xiao Jinlang was tired for two or three days in a row, and he felt sleepy when he relaxed, so he simply used a few chairs in the reception room to lie down for the night.
After lying down for several hours, Lao Xiao felt that something was covering him and he woke up quickly. A researcher from the institute put a coat on him. Seeing that he woke up, the other person smiled and said: "Comrade Xiao, thank you for your hard work."
Compared to Chen Mu's excitement at the machine tool factory, the people at the research institute were much more emotionally stable.
Lao Xiao sat up and said "should" several times, then casually asked: "Should I go back?"
"No rush, no rush, let's wait for the results first." The researcher was also middle-aged and looked older than Lao Xiao. He poured a glass of hot water and asked with a smile: "Can you tell me about the origin of this batch of goods?
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This is about getting to the bottom of things.
Lao Xiao and Chen Mu were in a hurry when they came back. They only reported the situation verbally, and the paper report was not finished yet. He also woke up, sat upright, and talked about Zhou Qingfeng who had returned from overseas and the Holy Light founded by him.
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"Oh..., it turns out they are patriotic overseas Chinese." A smile bloomed on the researcher's face, "It's very good, it's so rare.
The electronic components are still being tested, and the performance is not yet clear. However, the 386EX is a general-purpose processor, and we have only received some news before that the United States is developing this model.
I didn’t expect that someone had already made it.
This is truly the most advanced aerospace-grade spaceborne processor at present, with very powerful performance. It is of great use in attitude control and communication processing."
When the researcher said this, he couldn't help but sigh.
Because in 1988 and 1990, Rabbit launched two meteorological satellites, Fengyun 1A and 1B. Their launch allowed the country to master a large amount of earth meteorological data.
but......
Satellite 1A suffered from contamination of the on-board components and the processor failed to withstand strong solar radiation. The attitude of the satellite was out of control and it died after only 39 days of operation.
Satellite 1B was slightly better, but it only worked for less than half a year. The on-board processor suddenly failed and died.
Based on the lifespan of ordinary satellites, which are at least three to five years, these two are typical premature deaths.
Rabbit only worked for seven years until the Fengyun-1C was launched in 1999. The onboard CPU it used was still a 16-bit 80C86 with a main frequency of only 3 MB and was imported at a high price.
‘386EX’ is already thirty-two.
It will take the new millennium for Rabbit to truly break through the technical difficulties of satellite-based processors, and we can't expect it to happen in 1991.
Just to put it casually, the original design life of ‘Fengyun-1C’ was two years, and its service life was extended by seven years.
When it retired in 2007, Rabbit launched an anti-satellite missile from Xichang and accurately knocked out this meritorious satellite with a kinetic energy warhead.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command of the United States detected this experiment and slandered us in the media for destroying world peace - I just destroyed it, what can you do?
But now, Rabbit's onboard processor is really not that good. The basic semiconductor technology is not very good, and the cutting-edge products are completely blank.
At this time, domestic spaceborne computers simply execute a certain section of programmed instructions and do simple tasks of attitude control, and cannot do any major work.
The first company to develop aerospace-grade chips was the 772 Institute of the Ninth Aerospace Academy. It was not the key main control CPU, and it would not be successful until 2003.
It won’t be until 2011 that domestic aerospace-grade CPUs will be launched as a backup for imported CPUs. It won’t be until 2015 when the Beidou twin satellites are launched that domestic CPUs will take the lead.
It's still 1991. Zhou Qingfeng took out the 386EX, which really shocked everyone at the Imperial Control Engineering Research Institute. He thought that the '386' was a low-end product, but he didn't know that this thing was a high-tech product.
The powerful processor can process payload data in real time, receive ground instructions, and manage and control attitude. It can greatly reduce the weight of the satellite.
The power supply, board wiring, and peripherals can all be simplified. Functions implemented by circuits can be moved to the CPU.
In fact, the original name of the chip is "very large-scale integrated circuit". A "386EX" integrates hundreds of thousands of transistors. If these tubes were not integrated, the satellite would probably weigh hundreds of tons.
Originally, researchers at the institute could only design satellites around low-end processors such as 80C86. Now that high-end products are available, research ideas can be greatly broadened.
Moreover, the number of '386EX' obtained this time was not just one or two, but more than 20 samples were given. In addition to being used for ground testing, these can be used to produce a satellite.
After all, today's satellites are not mass-produced, and each one can be said to be customized.
And Xiao Jinlang also said that Zhou Qingfeng can get more cutting-edge aerospace-grade processors. Different varieties, different performances, everything you want.
In addition to the CPU, there are also aerospace-grade memories, high-performance batteries, high-gain antennas, data processing DSPs, converters, data buses, and transmitting devices.
All it took was a satellite to be moved over directly.
The researchers in the institute became more and more excited as they listened. They took out their pens and kept writing in their notebooks. While writing, he kept asking questions.
"Can I have all these things?"
"I can't believe it! These things are so cutting-edge."
"If Americans knew about it, they would be furious."
"Oh, you shouldn't tell me this. Remember the confidentiality policy."
"Once the news leaks out, this overseas comrade will be in danger."
"Forget it, forget it, I won't ask anymore. We must protect this road."
"Let that comrade stop thinking about building good things all the time. The more he does, the easier it will be to expose him. It's better if things continue slowly."
At the end of writing, the researcher stopped writing, tore out all his records and subsequent blank pages, and burned them. "This information cannot be disclosed to outsiders and must be kept strictly confidential."
Just at this moment, there was a knock on the door outside the reception room.
The young people in the institute called the middle-aged researcher out. Xiao Jinlang looked at them and whispered a few words in their ears. The middle-aged researcher was even more beaming and overjoyed.
"Okay, okay, two high-power gallium arsenide MOS tubes have passed the test. The performance indicators are more than ten times better than our existing products, they are small in size, light in weight, and generate less heat.
The 14 institutes in Nanjing are well-informed and have already called the ministries and commissions, requesting a batch of samples for them to make radars. Bah..., they have a good idea. Once the things are in our hands, no one can try to steal them."
The middle-aged researcher wore glasses and a Chinese tunic suit, but at the end of his words, he showed a gangster air that was easy to laugh and scold.
Xiao Jinlang also smiled. The competition within the system for funds, talents, equipment, and even everything that can be snatched is the normal state of healthy competition.
If the head of a hospital does not fight for it, the people below him will think that the boss has no ambition, and the leaders will think that his work attitude is not positive.
Speaking of this, the middle-aged researcher asked Xiao Jinlang: "Within a week, we will conduct a comprehensive test on this sample, and the report will be issued soon. I want to ask now, when will the next batch of samples arrive?
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Xiao Jinlang suddenly smiled bitterly, "Well..., it should be quick!"