"In front is the R&D building of our Longxing Group. Although it is not as good as the Imperial Academy of Dragon Sciences, it is still small but has all the internal organs." Chen Xing walked in the front and introduced to the team of academicians of the Imperial Academy of Dragon Sciences.
Looking at the U-shaped building with exquisite structure and standing majestically at the Longxing base, many academicians were amazed.
“It’s so tall!”
“This building must cover an area of more than 10,000 square meters on a single floor, right? It has more than ten or twenty floors. Mr. Chen is so humble.”
“It’s really modest. At first glance, I thought it was a New York commercial building!”
“As for the experimental building, I feel that our Long Institute of Science and Technology has to invest money to improve it. For those small three- or four-storey buildings from decades ago, you had to go back and forth to do an experiment. It’s better to learn from the Longxing Group. One building is enough.”
“That’s good.”
Listening to the sentiments of academician friends, Qu Cheng also echoed: "I have long proposed to rebuild the R&D base of Longke Academy, but Dean Qin is not willing to part with the money."
"I mentioned it too, but when he said money should be spent wisely, he was really a tough guy." Liu Dongsheng also complained.
"I don't think it's about money. Dean Qin is probably afraid that reconstruction will delay the progress of the project. After all, reconstruction is not a trivial matter. It can take up to half a year at the earliest, or even two or three years at the earliest." Chen Xing walked as he walked. Speak well of Qin Long.
"Haha, maybe that's true."
"It seems that we wrongly blamed Dean Qin, and Mr. Chen must have seen clearly."
"As expected of Mr. Chen "
The academicians did not argue, but followed Chen Xing's words. They simply complained, not that they had to argue whether Qin Long was stingy or not.
Besides, they are also their "immediate superiors" who say bad things about others behind their backs. If they find out, they will always suffer, and the project funds may be cut off.
While everyone was chatting casually, they also came to the fountain square of the R&D building.
Before Chen Xing and others reached the main entrance, Gao Zhengqian, Pei Hui, Jiang Ce and other main leaders of the ternary R&D team who were waiting in front of the R&D building stepped forward to greet them.
"President."
"Good afternoon, president."
"Yes." Chen Xing nodded, then turned sideways and introduced: "Qu Cheng, I won’t introduce Academician Liu Dongsheng in too much, and everyone knows them. As for these people, they are Academician Wang Jie in the field of semiconductor chips, and Academician Xu Weiguo in the field of computers..."
"Hello, Academician Wang Jie, I am Gao Zhengqian, the chief of the chip team of Longxing Group."
"Hello, I didn't expect you to be Chief Gao. You are too young. Qu Cheng is often in my ears. I’m mentioning you.”
“I have heard about Academician Zhang Manman’s name for a long time. I am engaged in chip lithography. My name is Lin Tian, the forest of the woods, the lawless sky.”
“ I have long heard of Chief Lin’s personality.”
“Hello, Academician Xu Weiguo, my name is Jiang Ce, and I am a programmer.”
……
The two waves of people shook hands and said hello to each other. After a brief familiarity, Qu Cheng on the side couldn't hold it any longer. He looked at Gao Zhengqian and asked, "By the way, Chief Gao, I have a question to ask you. I don't know how to do it." Convenient."
"Please tell me."
Gao Zhengqian smiled lightly.
The moment Qu Cheng opened his mouth, the surrounding air suddenly became quiet, as if the mute button had been pressed.
Liu Dongsheng, Wang Jie, Jiang Ce, Lin Tian, and Chen Xing all set their sights on Qu Cheng and Gao Zhengqian.
This seems to be an academic exchange, but in fact they came with a mission.
As long as the ternary project can be realized and have far-reaching impact, then the Academy of Dragon Science will mobilize to work together to get it out.
Because during the listing speech, Chen Xing once proposed a ternary computer.
Everyone who has been a programmer knows that an ordinary patch update requires weeks of coding, and there may also be bugs that require continuous optimization.
Ordinary system patching and building a brand new numerical system, the amount of engineering work required is not at the same level, just like the difference between a stream at home and the vast ocean.
Qin Long and Wang Shan took this into consideration and thought of using the opportunity of academic exchange to have a group of academicians come over first to see if there was anything they could do to help.
"That's it." Qu Cheng calmed down his thoughts and continued: "Chief Gao, we are colleagues in chip design. Logically speaking, we cannot design without suitable EDA chip design software. After all, it is impossible to draw logic circuits by hand for nanoscale chips. "
"What I want to ask is, how do you design a ternary chip without ternary EDA chip design software. Logic circuit? "
As we all know, the number of transistors in a chip is measured in hundreds of millions. Take the 5-nanometer Huaxia chip as an example. Its number of transistors is as high as 30 billion.
What does 30 billion transistors mean?
At full power, 15 billion 1s and 15 billion 0s can be provided every 0.1 seconds, forming the basic logical unit of computing power.
Due to the technical blockade of the three major EDA chip design software giants, Synopsys, Cadence, and Mentor, Longxing Group has always used the internal EDA chip design software of Longxing Academy.
The EDA chip design software within Longke Academy is binary, and there is no way to conduct circuit logic testing on ternary chips.
If you insist on using binary EDA chip design software to design ternary chips, it’s not impossible, but it is almost like walking blindfolded. You have no way to judge whether you are walking in a straight line and the road conditions. Sample.
First there is the ternary EDA chip design software, and then there is the ternary chip. This is Qu Cheng’s personal understanding.
If Qu Cheng is right, then the question arises again. Running ternary EDA chip design software requires a ternary computer. Does Longxing Group really have this condition?
Judging from various factors, the ternary chip may still be in the theoretical stage. This is what Qu Cheng wants to prove.
After listening to Qu Cheng’s question, Gao Zhengqian thought for a moment and responded: “Yes, we do need ternary EDA chip design software, and it also needs to be paired with a ternary computer. At present, "Fuxi Chip" has not yet officially built a logic circuit."
The moment the words fell, the academician of Longke Academy was disappointed, and the hope in his eyes disappeared without a trace.
But if you think about it carefully, it is indeed impossible to enter the chip design stage so quickly. After all, this is a ternary chip and a completely new field.
“Oh, sure enough!”
Qu Cheng sighed in his heart.
Although he also knew that the ternary chip held too many things, and it was impossible to realize them all in one go, Gao Zhengqian was an omnipotent god in his heart, and he had hope for Gao Zhengqian. , now that hope is shattered, we can only face the cruel reality.
Just when the academician of Longke Academy was tacitly talking about different ideas, Gao Zhengqian suddenly changed the topic and spoke again: "Although the ternary logic circuit has not been formally built, most of the binary logic circuit has been completed. ."
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Why are there binary logic circuits again?
Is this a ternary chip or a binary chip?
Qu Cheng, Liu Dongsheng, Wang Jie and other academicians in the field of semiconductor chips are collectively confused. They only feel that their "CPU" is a bit overloaded.
Since the ternary chip has no reference and is a smart chip in a completely new field, they really don’t understand it.
Looking at the confused academicians, Gao Zhengqian smiled calmly and explained: "The logic circuit of the ternary chip is actually not obscure. It only has one more negative logic circuit than the binary logic circuit. That is to say, a transistor is needed to express negative numbers. ”
“That is to say, the ternary system is based on the 1 and 0 transistors, plus a transistor to express negative numbers. ”
Gao Zhengqian took a breath and continued to explain: "As we all know, using EDA tools to design chips is building blocks. In the absence of ternary EDA software to assist verification, we can first design the relevant circuit component materials, and then start Build the parts of 1 and 0, wait for the ternary EDA software tool to be put into use, and then complete the negative part."
"To put it more simply, build a rough house first, and then take your time when you have money. Finely decorate until you are satisfied.”
“Bah bang bang—”
The moment Gao Zhengqian finished speaking, Qu Cheng couldn’t help but applaud him.
Build a rough house first, and then carry out fine decoration. This set of things was actually suitable for chip design, which he had never thought about.
"Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading. Chief Gao is indeed the master that Academician Qu Cheng often mentioned. He is so knowledgeable."
"We have been building blocks for so long, but we have never thought about it. This kind of combination is amazing!”
“Hidden in the City, it’s amazing!”
“Chief Gao, how are your electronic components? Don’t you need our help?”
“Yes, yes, if you need our help, just ask us, we can learn more.”
As soon as the experts take action, we will know if there is anything. A conversation made this group of academicians of the Academy of Dragon Science deeply understand what there is outside the world.
According to their fixed thinking, there are eggs first, and then the chickens are hatched. That is to say, EDA chip design software is first available, and then the chip logic circuits are designed. This is basically the consensus of the industry.
But Gao Zhengqian’s words broke their stereotyped thinking.
Why can we only have eggs first and then hatch out chickens, and not allow other species to evolve and mutate, from viviparous to oviparous?
Listening to the academicians’ final statement that they wanted to participate in the research and development of the ternary project, Gao Zhengqian looked at Chen Xing and asked for his opinion.
Chen Xing nodded slightly and responded.
He still trusts the academicians of the Long Academy of Sciences, and Qin Long’s intention is very obvious. It seems that he wants the academicians to come to exchange and learn, but in fact he wants to speed up the incubation of the ternary project.
Furthermore, the second-generation Beidou chip has already achieved mass production, and the third-generation Beidou chip is not in a hurry to start a project. The semiconductor chip academicians of Longke Academy also have a lot of free time.
In previous years, during the project window period, they would often go to universities to give lectures or participate in academic forums.
But now, it seems that there are things to do that are more urgent, more important, and more interesting to them than the third-generation Beidou chip.
With Chen Xing's permission, Gao Zhengqian also made an invitation gesture and said: "Since all the academicians are interested, let's go up and talk in detail."
"Okay, I'll excuse you."
“Without further ado, let’s go up and take a look. I’m really interested in the ternary chip project.”
“Me too.”
"Sorry to bother Chief Gao."
Gao Zhengqian turned his body sideways and motioned for Chen Xing and the academicians of the Long Academy of Sciences to go first.
At this moment, Xu Weiguo, an academician in the computer field, spoke. "I don't know much about chips, so I won't go. Chief Jiang, can you let me see our ternary computer?"
"The code hasn't been finished yet..."< br>
Jiang Ce declined.
Rebuilding the numerical system is an extremely huge project. Even if they have used AI tools to write, they have only completed about 30% of it. There is no point in visiting now because it is still a string of codes.
Seeing this, Xu Weiguo did not hide anything and expressed his true thoughts: "Actually, I came to our Longxing Group this time with a mission. I just want to ask Chief Jiang and Chen In summary, can the ternary computer support the IPv6 Internet protocol? "
"IPv6? "
Jiang Ce looked at Chen Xing. He seemed to remember that this project was handed over to other teams. Not an expert in this area either.
“There is a layout for this.”
Chen Xing gave an accurate response.
Since Longxing Group is going to implement the ternary system, it will naturally implement it to the end.
Perhaps many people do not understand what the IPv6 Internet Protocol is, let alone what IPv is.
The so-called IPv Internet protocol is like a house number. With this house number, you can access the Internet and the data can accurately find the target device on the network.
This is just like when you are shopping online. If you don’t enter the delivery address, you can’t just guess how the merchant will deliver the goods to you. Therefore, you need the delivery address before you can shop online.
The current mainstream is IPv4, whose full name is Internet Protocol version 4, which is the fourth version of the Internet Communication Protocol.
The IPv4 Internet protocol was proposed by the IETF Internet Engineering Task Force in September 1981. It was described in the RFC791 released at that time. It replaced the previous version of RFC760 and would use a 32-bit 4-byte address. In theory, it can The number of nodes addressed is 2^32, which is approximately 4.295 billion.
However, since some addresses are reserved for specific purposes, such as private networks and multicast addresses, the actual number of addressable nodes is probably around 3.8 billion.
With the rise of the Internet, in the 2011 "Internet Addressable Node Conference", all 3.8 billion IP addresses have been allocated, and they are shared globally and cannot be repeated. A total of 300 million IP addresses have been allocated to Longguo IP address.
With a population of more than one billion, there are only 300 million IP addresses, which is obviously not enough. Especially with the rise of online shopping after 2012, the demand for IP addresses has increased dramatically.
It is obviously impossible to have one IP address per person. The shortage problem can only be temporarily alleviated through technical means such as CIDR classless inter-domain routing and NAT network address translation.
Compared with the IP address shortage problem of IPv4, IPv6 can perfectly solve it.
Because it uses 128-bit addresses, it can theoretically provide more than 3.4×10^38 IP addresses, which is enough to support the networking needs of all devices worldwide.
To put it bluntly, it is basically infinite, to the extent that any dog passing by can be assigned a dedicated IP address!
In recent years, member states of Longguo and APNIC Asia-Pacific Network Information Center have continuously proposed to ICANN number allocation agencies and RIRs regional Internet registries to update the IPv4 Internet protocol to the IPv6 Internet protocol, but they have all been rejected. Repeatedly perfunctory.
As the saying goes, scarce resources are valuable.
Upgrade to IPv6?
What should the beneficiary countries of IPv4 do?
As the leading country in the Internet protocol, the West not only holds a large number of IP addresses, but also sells a batch of IP addresses to other countries every year to make huge profits from them. It also holds 13 root servers.
If you succeed in promoting the IPv6 Internet protocol, won’t the interests of countries with vested interests be harmed?
Will they agree?
Obviously.
They won't agree.
In order to solve the problem of shortage of IP addresses, Longguo and other countries in the same predicament have been implementing the IPv6 Internet protocol, but there has not been much progress. Western countries insist on using the IPv4 Internet protocol.
But with Chen Xing's proposal of the ternary computer, things took a different turn.
From the perspective of high-level officials, the Longxing Group dares to reconstruct the computer numerical system alone. Why can't the huge Dragon Kingdom win over other countries that also lack IP addresses to work together on the IPv6 Internet protocol?
However, if you want to implement IPv6 alone, it involves many aspects such as infrastructure construction, technical preparation, policy support and user popularization.
Let’s talk about infrastructure construction first. If you want the IPv6 Internet protocol to be implemented smoothly, you must upgrade the existing backbone network and metropolitan area network equipment to ensure that they support the IPv6 protocol.
This includes the replacement or software upgrade of core network equipment such as routers and switches.
In addition, the access network also needs to be modified, such as the upgrade of optical modems, DSL modems and other access equipment, as well as corresponding wiring modifications.
Only when these infrastructures are completed can home and enterprise users be able to access IPv6 networks.
Secondly, there is the upgrade of data center and network architecture.
The servers and storage devices of data centers and cloud service providers need to support IPv6 in order to provide users with IPv6 services.
As for the network architecture, it is necessary to build a data center network architecture that supports IPv6, including internal and external network connections, as well as security equipment such as load balancing and firewalls.
Of course.
There is also the most critical technical preparation.
1 is protocol stack support. If you want to implement IPv6, you must enable the operating system and devices to support the IPv6 protocol stack.
For example, mainstream operating systems such as Hongmeng, Tianxuan, Windows, and Linux, and hardware devices such as smartphones, tablets, and smart homes.
2 is application software, which encourages application software developers to update their products to support IPv6 network access and data transmission.
3 is a transition technology. During the transition period from IPv4 to IPv6, dual stack and tunnel technologies can be used to achieve interconnection between IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
Only by completing all the above, will IPv6 be able to replace the IPv4 Internet protocol, so that IP address resources will no longer be in short supply.
It is precisely because of the complexity and the fact that leading Western operating systems such as Windows, iOS, and Android do not support it that IPv6 has not been popularized for a long time.
But now, things have turned for the better.
iOS, Android, and Windows have all been gradually seized by the Tianxuan operating system. In terms of equipment, Apple mobile phones and Korean mobile phones have also gradually lost market share.
Now Longxing Group is going to build a ternary computer, which means that the root servers will also have to be redistributed, and IPv6 can be popularized by taking advantage of this east wind.
This is also the purpose of Xu Weiguo's trip, which is to explore Chen Xing's reputation.
Seeing that Chen Xing said there was a plan, he knew that things needed to be discussed.
"Then Mr. Chen said that ternary computers, Tianxuan operating systems, and future smart devices will support the IPv6 Internet protocol?" Xu Weiguo wanted to know the exact answer.
Although Qu Cheng, Liu Dongsheng and other chip academicians do not understand the IPv6 Internet protocol, they have heard about it and know that Longguo is in urgent need of IP addresses and has to spend a sum of money to purchase them every year.
“No wonder Xu Weiguo came with him, it turns out he has a mission.”
Qu Cheng murmured to himself.
Chen Xing did not deny it and gave a definite answer: "As long as the country is determined to promote it, then I will definitely answer the call."
He has long wanted to take action on the Internet Protocol, but due to In the past, my background was weak and I couldn't express my position.
But things are different now. The current Longxing Group needs an operating system and an operating system and smart devices and smart devices, and its market share is still far ahead in the world.
Taking a step back, even if the country doesn’t mention it, Chen Xing will mention it.
Because he is currently planning to deploy a smart home, and if it involves the field of intelligence, he will definitely need to be connected to the Internet.
As long as you are connected to the Internet, you are at risk of being hacked.
The security of IPv4 depends on the website and application, and the protocol itself has no built-in security mechanism.
Generally, in order to improve security, it is usually necessary to add additional security layers to the network architecture, such as firewalls, IPSec, etc.
This is also the reason why many home surveillance images are leaked.
The IPv4 Internet protocol has long been unsuitable for the current era. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as your mobile phone is connected to the Internet, there is already a risk of privacy leakage.
IPv6 is completely different. It was designed with security issues in mind, integrated Internet protocol security standards, and built-in IPSec protocol, providing a standards-based solution for network security. Includes features such as data encryption, data integrity verification, and end-to-end authentication.
Long Guo and the member states of APNIC Asia Pacific Network Information Center have promoted the security of IPv6 in public more than once, but in the end they have all come to nothing and have been unable to promote popularization.
After hearing Chen Xing’s statement, Xu Weiguo’s face instantly filled with joy, he gave a thumbs up and said: “As expected of Mr. Chen, with your words, I can go back and do business.”
“Academician Xu is not in a hurry to make a presentation. We cannot rely solely on Longxing Group to build the IPv6 Internet. Data protocols such as routers, switches, optical modems, DSL modems, and software applications all require in-depth study.”
“What does Mr. Chen mean?”
“We have to reach an agreement with Kunpeng Company, Penguin Ali and other companies. After all, there are specialties in the industry, and they cannot be left out in building IPv6.”
"Mr. Chen is right. Then I will explain the situation to Dean Qin Long later, and then visit them one by one."
"No need to be so troublesome."
Xu Weiguo just finished speaking , Chen Xing waved his hand and continued: "Now that the Internet is so developed, there is no need to run around. It is too inefficient. Move to my office and I will set up a video conference to listen to their ideas."
"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey."
Xu Weiguo said gratefully.
"Mr. Qu, Mr. Liu, and all the academicians have also heard it. Academician Xu and I have a meeting to have, so I need to excuse myself."
Chen Xing looked at the academicians around him, Then he joked to himself: "But it doesn't seem to matter. After all, I am not engaged in scientific research. I don't know much about chips, and I can't have academic exchanges with you. I won't bother you to discuss ternary chips with Chief Gao."
“Well, Mr. Chen, you go ahead.”
“Mr. Chen is joking, you are not an academic, but you know as much as we do.”
“Look back Let’s talk about Mr. Chen again.”
The academicians responded one after another.
Chen Xing smiled and looked at Gao Zhengqian aside and said: "Then let's leave first. Chief Gao needs to discuss ternary chips with the academicians and make progress together."
< br>"Yes, don't worry."
Gao Zhengqian nodded in response.
(End of this chapter)