Rebirth of Northland Technology - 632 Chapter 614 EDA Software (continued)

It is also premature to launch an attack on the Unix market.

The users of Unix software are large companies that are not price sensitive. Unless there are special circumstances, it will be difficult to persuade them to change their homes. Platform migration, staff training costs, and file compatibility alone will be enough for them.

In addition, the devil is in the details.

Unlike file compression, video players, and other tools and software, one or two features are enough to take over the world.

Those who have experience in software product development will know that this kind of industry large software, without three to five years, or even longer iterations, experience accumulated, can not be truly mature.

Software developers, who understand development, do not understand the needs of the industry. Programming skills can only ensure the coding quality of the program, but cannot address the functional integrity of the product or the applicability of the industry.

What about professionals who can guide development?

This is even less so.

Electronics experts, semiconductor experts, while they understand the needs of the industry, they don’t understand program development or even what can be done or what can’t be done.

In terms of what can’t be done, for example, how many transistors can be computed in real time in 16M of memory at one time? If you don’t have enough memory, what is the best way to process hundreds of millions of transistor data?

In terms of what can be done, the lead designer of the project, if the software doesn’t know about multi-core parallel computing, or GPU acceleration, then the software certainly won’t have similar functionality.

Software requirements are not created out of thin air. It is only when users see the physical object that new requirements are created. So you can do this. But if you can do it this way, can you take it a step further?

It is only through one iteration that the software progresses with the requirements.

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More importantly, in PCBA and IC software, the database is more valuable than the software itself.

Some simple automatic circuit generation functions are highly dependent on the understanding of the components. For example, many chips have reference circuits provided by the manufacturer, which the user can call up and use by simply clicking on them.

One relies on the accumulation of this data over time, and the other relies on the manufacturer’s input.

In this day and age, the reference scheme for many chips has to be paid for.

To take an extreme example, a reference solution for a GSM baseband chip can cost millions of dollars to license.

More often than not, they are not available because the manufacturers have exclusive licenses with other software platforms. Faced with this situation, should Bittorrent develop a reference solution for these chips?

The IP library of IC software is in a similar situation.

Full Color’s first TFT driver chip was developed based on the DSP IP library.

Without the basic IP library, the IC software is a mere window, who can make it from scratch?

Most of the chip suppliers are European, American and Japanese manufacturers, not to talk about discrimination, not to talk about licensing costs, that is, travel costs, are enough to drink a pot of Hundred Graphics.

There are many other data. For example, the parameter optimization matching with the subsequent process production equipment. Mainstream semiconductor equipment, are from Europe and the United States and Japanese manufacturers, who are more advantageous, it goes without saying.

These long-established manufacturers, more than ten years, or even decades of industry experience accumulation, are lacking in Baitu, and even lacking in all domestic industrial software manufacturers.

Chinese EDA software has never developed, not in software development, but in data accumulation.

In a sense, Baitu has jumped into a killing field.

The competition in the EDA industry has been very sufficient, there are dinosaur level Unix players, there are new forces such as Protel, and there are free fly players in the market.

The free software, which is really free, is either developed by enthusiasts themselves or by competing companies that have failed to open source their products or provide them for free.

As a newcomer to the game, Hundred Tu can only put in more effort and time to earn his place in the world.

But don’t worry, time will change everything.

The performance gap between PCs and workstations will become smaller and smaller, and by 1998 or so, the crossover point will be reached.

As long as Hundred Figure and other companies, can find the right market positioning, gradually engulf the PC market share, followed by the great development of the PC, the water rising, boat out to sea on it.

Free products are not a threat to Hundred Graphics. These products, lacking maintenance, will not be of interest to commercial users. Individual users are attracted by Lina’s free policy.

In addition, with the continuous feedback from customers, Bematu will have more and more experience in the industry.

Local Chinese IC manufacturers are growing, the Chinese market is not to be ignored, and with the software share, the bargaining power will increase.

Of course, there are also problems with this business model that make it difficult to collect payments and impossible to monitor.

For example, if a company uses the software without buying the commercial rights, or if it buys the basic version but turns on the advanced features, who knows?

Bemisoft’s focus is primarily on the future, and revenue is not important right now.

And as technology advances and the web becomes more widespread, there is something to be said for changing the method of authorization verification.

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With the gradual opening of the product market, it is reasonable to say that the thirty or so people provided by the College of Business are far from adequate to meet the actual demand, but that’s the way it has to be now.

After the financing conference, the resources of computer-related students in Bingcheng were in full emergency. The stock of several colleges and universities in the city was basically wiped out.

Many project teams are already using social workers. Although the level of social workers is limited, they can still do some testing and other support work. In addition, they can work full time, which is more efficient.

Hundred Graphics has also considered this, but computers are too expensive. Another expansion will have to wait for the next round of financing.

Li Li Na’s workload is still very heavy.

Not only did she have to complete the development of her own tool editor, but she also had to direct and coordinate the schedules of dozens of people.

Every day, she would come over as soon as class was over, and she was even considering whether she should stay here at night.

The security situation in Ice City is as worrying as ever.

Recently, she had heard of several cases of murder and robbery.

She also felt a little guilty about going back and forth between the two schools at night.

I’ll have to ask Mr. Wang to coordinate this matter later.