1991 Starting from the core

Su Yuanshan walked into his father's office with a box of floppy disks.

There are five graduate students under Associate Professor Su, two of whom are on the job and three of whom are on campus.

"Xiaoshan, how dare you skip class?" The senior brother who greeted him was named Tang Wenjie. He was fat, wearing glasses, and had a smile that made people feel like spring breeze.

"I'm here to run errands." Su Yuanshan smiled, approached Qin Weimin, who was frowning and thinking, and handed two floppy disks to Qin Weimin: "Brother Weimin, my dad asked me to give them to you."

Qin Weimin was drawing a circuit diagram using Protel. He raised his head when he heard this: "What did your dad say?"

Su Yuanshan smiled and said: "My dad said that even after completing the third year of graduate school, there are still bugs in a small program. Qin Weimin, this senior brother..."

Associate Professor Su's voice sounded outside the door: "I didn't say that."

Qin Weimin's face started to turn red, but when he heard this, he slapped Su Yuanshan in the face - this guy was pretending to pass on the imperial edict.

Su Yuanshan smiled and ducked: "Haha, in fact, in my opinion, the bug is nothing. The main reason is that senior brother's code is a bit messy. I just need to write more."

Su Xinghe walked into the office, rolled up a book, hit his son on the head and said with a smile: "Your senior brother majors in integrated circuit design, how can he have so much time to write code?"

Su Xinghe then looked at his three students and said, "But next, I will arrange a software development project for you, which will be your graduation project."

The three people suddenly had different expressions upon hearing this.

Qin Weimin, who is already in his third year of graduate school, looked surprised. He started working on his graduation project last year, which is about integrated circuit design for video. So far, more than half of it has been completed - rearranging the topic means re-doing the graduation project.

As for Tang Wenjie and Chen Jianguo, they are both second-year graduate students and have not yet considered graduation. I became a little excited when I heard that there was a project for graduation.

But all three of them are confused. Their major is integrated circuit design. Is software development too far away?

After thinking for a while, Qin Weimin said: "Teacher, it's about to end here."

Su Xinghe nodded and looked at his eldest disciple apologetically. He is not the kind of tutor who sticks to his students, but among his students, Qin Weimin is the most capable. After thinking about it, Su Xinghe said: "Weimin, if you can't get a patent over there, you can let it go first. The new topic here is the development of integrated circuit design software. It will take about half a year to complete, and the time will not affect your graduation."

Qin Weimin was startled and looked at each other with his two junior brothers: "EDA?"

If it is the development of EDA software, it is quite relevant to the profession. But could a few people like me come up with that thing?

"Well, let Xiaoshan tell you." Su Xinghe smiled and patted his son on the shoulder, saying with emotion: "Don't underestimate this kid, his C++ level is now higher than mine."

The three of them were stunned upon hearing this.

It has always happened in ancient times to say that one is not as good as his son and come to carry his son's sedan chair. But Professor Su will definitely not do it - even if he wants to lift his son, he must be able to lift him! How could he, an associate professor who claimed to be among the top three in electrical engineering in terms of programming skills, be able to support his son, who was just a freshman in high school?

What's more, Professor Su is never a person who talks freely.

"I have a meeting next. Xiaoshan, please assign the work." Su Xinghe looked at Qin Weimin again: "Weimin, I didn't touch a single punctuation point in your code. It was all changed by Xiaoshan. You can check and compare. .”

…

After Su Xinghe left, Tang Wenjie and Chen Jianguo immediately gathered around. Qin Weimin calmed down and copied the code into his computer.

Su Yuanshan chuckled and said: "Let's not talk about EDA first. Let's take a look at Senior Brother Qin's code first."

Qin Weimin opened C++, loaded the project and clicked debug directly - the loading speed stunned him! He did it quickly and found that it was abnormally smooth. After checking the code, he found that a lot of his code had been commented out...

Five minutes later, Qin Weimin looked up at Su Yuanshan, his eyes changing from disbelief at the beginning to shock and silence.

Su Yuanshan shrugged: "I've simplified the code a little bit, senior brother won't blame me, right?"

Qin Weimin smiled bitterly and said: "You boy, my senior brother is convinced! Have you started programming since you were in your mother's womb?"

Tang Wenjie took a breath, looked back at the door, and said with a bad smile: "I think it's about the same. The teacher's shot more than ten years ago probably brought out a lot of programming genes."

Su Yuanshan: "Ahem..."

Tang Wenjie took a floppy disk and said, "Hey, let's show my senior brother what EDA is and how we can help."

"I have already designed the interface framework. You can write it directly according to the engineering documents. Then I wrote an engineering library, which will be used in future program design." Su Yuanshan said and began to distribute floppy disks: "Every week, Senior Brother Qin will Unify the progress and strive to get the main body out within a month.”

Qin Weimin was startled: "What about the teacher? And...what about you?"

"My dad is in charge of the electrical component database, and I'm in charge of the input tools."

The three people looked at each other with shock in their eyes. Of course they know that an EDA software supporting tool is the most important. "you……"

"Don't ask, asking is a genius." Su Yuan looked at the expressions of his senior brothers and sighed: "I think programming is very simple. What can I do? Why don't you send me to the Chinese Academy of Sciences for microsection? By the way, how can I weigh my brain? How heavy is it?”

The three of them suddenly couldn't laugh or cry. Qin Weimin kept shaking his head: "You kid...Okay, senior brother, let's see how much you weigh!"

*

A month later, Jiangdu Building.

This 34-story high-rise building was built by the Provincial Second Construction Group with funding from the provincial government. It has an aura since birth. It is not only the tallest building in the entire western region, but also a business card for the provincial capital to open to the outside world.

The bottom three floors are for shopping malls for external leasing, the 4th to 15th floors are for office floors, and the upper floors are for foreign-related hotels and business centers. During this May Day holiday, the mall will officially open to the public.

Su Yuanshan walked into the mall and saw his uncle who was directing the decoration workers.

This counter, which is about 100 square meters, is used by Su Yuanshan to sell BP machines. At present, the analog phone business, also known as the Big Brother business, is still in the hands of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau. The BP machine has opened a cooperation mode. As for the paging station, it will not be opened until 1992.

BP machines, an undervalued industry in China, actually reached 80 million users at its peak in 1998. In the past ten years, it has accumulated a market of nearly 100 billion. Su Yuanshan has no reason to give up this sweet cake. And it can also perfectly fit the layout of the mobile phone market.

"Little mountain." Zhang Ke immediately greeted his nephew when he saw him.

"Uncle, can you finish it before May Day?" Su Yuanshan looked at the busy decoration teams around him and asked with a smile.

"No problem." Zhang Ke patted Su Yuanshan on the shoulder and said, "Xiaoshan, although I believe in your technical vision, why am I a little unreliable?"

Su Yuanshan chuckled.

After his uncle brought the money, he asked his uncle to rent out the entire ninth and tenth floors of the Jiangdu Building as offices. He also rented a shop on the ground floor.

Frankly speaking, in this era when the per capita monthly salary is in the early 100s, apart from Hainan, where hot money is now surging, housing prices and rents in the mainland are not generally cheap.

In a landmark building like Jiangdu Building, the rent for the open-plan shops at the bottom is only three yuan per square meter, and the office floors above are as low as 40 cents per square meter.

But Zhang Ke doesn't quite understand why Su Yuanshan wants to rent such a large space - Zhang Ke also admits that paging is a good business, but he can't use 100 square meters, right? Not to mention the ninth and tenth floors. Those two floors add up to more than 3,000 square meters.

"Uncle, don't worry, I'm not as smart as you in business."

The uncle smiled conceitedly.

"But now we are in the IT and communications technology business. In this industry, we consider the development direction and innovation speed of technology. So, uncle, trust me!"

Su Yuanshan approached his uncle, glanced left and right, and whispered: "In the second half of the year at most, after our EDA development is completed, we will immediately invest in the research of Chinese pagers, the kind that can leave messages."

"Holy crap!" My uncle jumped suddenly and became excited: "Are you serious?"

As a true traveler, Zhang Ke certainly knows what the Chinese pager means.

Today's pagers can also leave messages, but they all contain numbers. For example, 520 means I love you, 530 means I miss you... Every pager user has a "password list" of such numbers.

"Of course! When the country opens paging stations to private operators, you can just wait and count the money."

"Okay, okay! Wait! How long will it take to study this Chinese pager?"

Su Yuanshan narrowed his eyes and raised a finger.

"One year?"

"A month."

In fact, a month is too long.

Because his undergraduate thesis was the transceiver design of Chinese network pagers.

…

The elevator stopped at the ninth floor. Su Yuanshan looked at the words "Yuanxin Technology" on the glass door and took a deep breath.

He originally wanted to call it Yuandai Technology, but then he thought that this name could not be explained to his father and uncle, and secondly, it was not called that, so he simply called it Yuanxin - which means having lofty ideals.

The recruitment notice for Yuanxin Technology was published in the provincial newspaper a week ago. In addition to the provincial newspaper, a copy was also issued in the capital.

The job posting is very arrogant. The title is:

"Together with the best programmers - just ask if you dare!"

In addition to the title, the content is also very novel. Su Yuanshan directly asked a few assembly fill-in-the-blank questions and C++ pointer questions, which can be regarded as a written test for recruitment.

Behind the glass door, there was a beautiful girl who had just graduated from high school at the front desk - this was Su Yuanshan's strong request.

In the rest area opposite the front desk, a row of applicants sat.

Judging by their age, most of them had just graduated from college or were doing internships. Each of them held a newspaper in their hands. These people had different expressions on their faces, talking to each other in low voices, and turning their heads from time to time to look at the workstations behind the glass partition.

There was only one person, carrying a satchel, sitting on the edge of the sofa, closing his eyes and meditating.

Su Yuanshan glanced at this person a few more times, smiled, said hello to the front desk, and walked out of the rest area.

The work area is now fully equipped with 486 computers. Su Yuanshan thought for a long time about whether to set up a network, and finally set up a small LAN with ten hosts according to the project allocation.

The current local area network is in a period of drought. Not only is the speed of Ethernet based on 10BASE-T slow, but the network card is also surprisingly expensive. It must also rely on the NetWare system to achieve networking, and it will soon be eliminated by 100M Ethernet.

There are already seven or eight people working with their heads down at the workstation, occasionally communicating with each other. These people are all disciples of other professors who have a good relationship with Su Xinghe and have been borrowed here to help out.

As for Qin Weimin, as Associate Professor Su's disciple, of course he sat in the technical director's office for the interview.

After walking around, Su Yuanshan went straight to the general manager's office.

At this time, Associate Professor Su was typing on the keyboard with a frown and writing on his notebook.

Su Yuanshan took a look and found that his father was writing the introduction and basic operations of Yuanxin EDA. He couldn't help feeling a little distressed and said: "Dad, just concentrate on the database. When the tutorial comes, just ask the senior brothers to help you compile it."

The software + usage teaching materials are released together. This is one of Su Yuanshan's plans. In the plan, this set of teaching materials will also be translated into Japanese and English, and will enter the Western and Eastern markets at the same time as the product is promoted.

Su Yuanshan believes that as long as Yuanxin EDA passes the national certification, no one can stop his father from becoming a professor. Even the dean of the newly established Institute of Electronic Engineering next year can grab one! Otherwise, the vice-dean will definitely not be able to escape.

"It's okay, your dad is still young, with a good waist and good shoulders." Su Xinghe said without raising his head: "You advertise so loudly, if I don't take out my bones and endure them, people will say that we launch satellites."

puff……

Su Yuanshan Yile: "Then please be careful and I'll get a wheel for Senior Brother Weimin to get there."

"Go ahead, you can also check out the recruitment situation."

At this time, a programmer who had successfully applied for the job knocked on the door restrainedly. Seeing this, Su Yuanshan stopped chatting with his father and asked the new employee to "visit" the big boss.

After going out, Su Yuanshan saw that the young man who had been concentrating with his eyes closed just got up, looked at him expressionlessly and entered the technical director's office.

This man has a bit of a temper, Su Yuanshan thought to himself, and followed him in.

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