Military Industry of Great Powers: Build the Strongest Flanker

Deputy Chief Lu was attracted when he saw the drawings.

Ten years ago, Intel's first commercial processor 4004 contained 2,200 transistors, and Zhao Guoqing's drawings involved more than a thousand logic gates. Each logic gate had several to dozens of transistors, totaling more than 10,000. transistor.

Although there are more than 10,000 transistors, the drawing is represented by logic gates, which looks much cleaner. In addition, the use of each circuit section is indicated with frames and labels, so the drawing does not look difficult to understand. .

Deputy Chief Lu understood it at a glance.

"This drawing cannot be directly manufactured!"

Zhao Guoqing nodded. In fact, what he drew was just a logic circuit diagram. To manufacture it, a detailed transistor circuit diagram was needed. That was physical design.

It is not difficult to understand. Just like in architecture, the logic circuit diagram is equivalent to the scheme design, setting the approximate parameters and basic functions.

But for actual construction, it is definitely not enough. The design needs to be deepened into construction drawings, and every logic gate circuit needs to be deepened into every transistor, every wire, every component...

"this……"

Deputy Chief Engineer Lu originally came here to investigate, but after seeing this drawing, his mentality immediately changed. He was in charge of the assembly and was no stranger to chips. He had seen physical drawings, and this kind of logical drawing was the first Seen for the first time.

The country had a falling out with Mao Xiong in the late 1960s, and has been isolated by Mao Xiong and the West until now. There is too little technical information available. In the field of chip design, every time it formulates a scientific design process like the West, it often fails. The focus is still on going directly to the last step, the design of the physical drawings.

With direct physical design, a chip with hundreds or thousands of transistors can still be made by hand. When it comes to tens of thousands of transistors, the difficulty increases exponentially. Forty years later, a chip the size of a fingernail contains tens of billions of transistors. It is impossible.

While others were still praising the functions realized by the chip in the drawing, Deputy Chief Engineer Lu keenly felt the epoch-making significance of this drawing for the country.

"Young man, what do you think? Where did you learn it?"

Zhao Guoqing shook his head and said: "I have read in the journal "Electronic Industry and Physics" that foreign countries have already explored the chip design process in the 1970s. The United States has formulated chip design and manufacturing standards in the past few years. They talk about chips. The design is divided into five steps!”

“The first step is demand design. After determining the demand, the second step is architecture design. Divide the chip into several pieces and design the communication method of each block. The third step is to design the logic circuit of each block, and the fourth step is to carry out physical design. design."

"The fifth step is to check and correct errors..."

"What about you?"

Zhao Guoqing turned to the next page.

"this……"

Requirements design and architecture design drawings are even simpler. The requirements are just a few lines of words, accompanied by instructions, and the proposed process requirements. As for architecture design, the above several frames and the functions implemented by each frame can communicate.

"Isn't this just the annotation on the logic circuit diagram?"

Deputy Commander Lu was filled with panic. He looked at Zhao Guoqing and nodded slowly.

He has also read these journals, and the latest journals are given priority to scientists at their institute, as well as to various universities and colleges.

In fact, many people have adapted to planned scientific research, waiting to receive tasks before tackling key problems. For chips, all these factories have closed down. How can the design be better?

At this time, the country's chip industry was not used for civilian use, and the focus was still on large-scale scientific computers. Considering the huge investment in the entire industry, it was already narrowly used, so that it can be imagined that it declined during this period.

Zhao Guoqing's drawings are undoubtedly a template for scientific chip design.

"A chip can meet the computing tasks of a radar, with reduced power consumption and reduced weight. This prospect is incredible. Young man, you can see further than us old antiques!"

Deputy Commander Lu took a breath, looked at Zhao Guoqing, then walked up to Director Gao and said, "Director Gao, you have found a treasure. I want to discuss something with you. How about you lend it to me, Xiao Zhao?" , I happen to have a project over there..."

Not so good. Director Gao shook his head and said, "Lao Lu, you have also seen that our institute has heavy scientific research tasks and there are not enough people!"

In fact, Director Gao is one level higher than Deputy Chief Engineer Lu, but the current situation of the 14th Institute is that most of the assigned scientific research tasks cannot be completed, and some projects seriously affect the progress of the final assembly. If you are not tough on yourself, even if your level is high, you will inevitably have no confidence in what you say!

This is also the reason why Deputy Chief Lu went into a rage in the conference room just now and Director Gao didn’t even fart...

Deputy General Engineer Lu shook his head and said to Zhao Guoqing: "Xiao Zhao, can you give me these drawings? How about I make a copy and return it to you?"

Zhao Guoqing nodded. What he needed was promotion. There was no harm in letting Chief Lu take him away.

…………

The big guys went to a meeting. Before leaving, General Engineer Bi told Zhao Guoqing to come to his office to see him in an hour.

Zhao Guoqing nodded and must have successfully walked out of the novice village. The classmates in the office surrounded him one by one.

"On National Day, real people don't show their faces. How do you know so much!"

"It's amazing. I didn't even understand these drawings, but you can design the circuit alone!"

"On National Day, we are brothers in the trenches. We have agreed that we will never forget each other even if we are rich or noble!"

"Shit, you're trying to conquer the country!"

"I'm also lucky enough to have read information on this."

Jiang Yan from University H stepped forward and said, "National Day, after reading those materials, can you lend them to us?"

"What's wrong with this!"

Zhao Guoqing filled three large notebooks with the contents copied from those journals.

"Why is it in English?"

"..."

They looked at the translator, and Roujing also shook her head, not understanding. She was studying Russian.

Zhao Guoqing put away his notebook and said, "Let's do this. I will translate it into Chinese when I have time and give it to you!"

"..."

"National Day, are there any English learning materials or something? We also want to learn..."

"That's fine. If you learn English well, there will be no obstacles in reading English literature. It's better to learn it sooner rather than later!"

These college students were very enthusiastic about learning, and Zhao Guoqing found a long-lost feeling in them.

In his memory, it was the same when he first arrived in the United States. The language barrier was like a natural chasm.

…

An hour later, Zhao Guoqing came to General Engineer Bi's office. His office was not a single room. There were four desks in the office, two large bookshelves in the front and back, filled with information, and dozens of drawing boards next to them, all with drawings on them.

"Report!"

"National Day is coming, come in quickly, Xiao Sun, and pour a glass of water for National Day."