At the 29th China Integrated Circuit Design Industry 2023 Annual Meeting and Guangzhou Integrated Circuit Industry Innovation and Development Summit Forum (ICCAD), Albert Li, CEO of LYG, said that the key to chip design services is a series of methodologies accumulated over a long period of time, and the chip performance is optimized by integrating resources. LYG has always adhered to the methodology of DTCO. He also said that creating a good ecology requires the participation of domestic startups, leading enterprises, wafer foundries and IC design companies.
LYG is the place where Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty displayed his twenty-four portraits of meritorious officials. Born and raised in Taiwan, China, and deeply educated in traditional Chinese culture, Mr. Albert Li is passionate about ancient Chinese history. Ling smoke Pavilion 24 meritorious officials assisted Li Shimin to fight the world and Zhenguan of the prosperous era of governance made an indelible contribution.
Mr.Albert Li explained that chip design service providers are like the 24 heroes of LYG. His original intention is to serve customers with beauty. LYG chip Technology always insists on dedication to help others and fulfill others.
The key to chip design services is methodology
Faced with the lack of resources and insufficient production experience in the chip production process of Foundry and Fabless, chip design service providers came into being to perfectly solve the problem.
Chip design service is a chip design platform as a service business model, is a specialized IC design enterprises to provide platform-based, full-process, one-stop chip design services.
Albert Li analysis, chip design service long-term experience has accumulated into a series of methodologies, chip performance and methodology are directly related. The chip design methodology should integrate IP and EDA, and enable the chip according to the company's own methodology, and the chip performance is stronger.
By purchasing or self-developing IP and EDA, the chip design service provider will play different roles in IP through different methodologies, and the design service provider will integrate IP into the chip to do verification services.
In a word, design service is the integration of resources to achieve the result of 1+1>2, and the DTCO (Design Technology Collaboration Optimization) concept that Mr. Albert Li has always insisted on is the best way to optimize resources.
Build the DTCO ecosystem
The core of the EDA ecosystem is DTCO, which requires the participation of domestic startups, leading enterprises, wafer foundries and IC design companies to join hands to create the EDA ecosystem. On the other hand, EDA development also requires deep participation and long-term support from customers.
LYG has been adhering to the strategy since its establishment, and continues to practice the concept of DTCO, and will continue to guide the future development of the company.
Mr. Albert Li said that DTCO is a design methodology whose ideas and practices have been applied more than a decad.
For ecological construction, EDA is not only a tool, but also a carrier for some key technologies, specific application processes and various design methodology innovations, as well as the linkage and application of design and manufacturing. The embodiment of the core value of EDA is the construction of EDA ecology, forming the support and promotion of the industrial chain and the maintenance of intellectual property rights.
Through the integration of semiconductor industry resources, LYG practices the concept of DTCO and takes the differentiated route to highlight the company's value.
Take the differentiated route
Biomedical chip development and design services.
Mr. Albert Li said that the current LYG focus on the layout of high performance computing chip, for not easy to buy high-speed customized CELL, the company adopts a customized way to self-develop high-efficiency computing chip IP. It is worth noting that the CELL of NVIDIA and Broadcom's high-performance computing chip is basically customized.
Today, customers are increasingly demanding, and computing chips require lower energy consumption to generate higher computing power, improving chip performance and saving costs.
At the China Integrated Circuit Design Industry 2023 Annual Meeting and Guangzhou Integrated Circuit Industry Innovation and Development Summit Forum, in the field of high performance computing, LYG demonstrated the latest AI accelerated board. This is the world's first Chiplet architecture based GPU chip based AI accelerated computing solution, including Chiplet system architecture design, ultra-low power consumption, high-speed serial interface, support for OpenCL and mainstream AI framework models and other technical highlights. At the same time, the accelerated board also has great advantages in energy saving, which can meet the system needs with about 1/3 of the overall cost of HBM2 and 80% of the energy consumption. At present, this board card combined with ultrasonic algorithm has been applied to tumor judgment, low cost, high computing power, reducing the HPC data analysis time.
At present, the product has been promoted and used in a number of domestic university scientific research institutions, providing platform support for research teams to develop high computing power applications.
LYG differentiation is also reflected in the high reliability of chip products. Reliability directly affects the life and performance stability of the chip. Automotive design life is much longer than the life requirements of consumer electronics products. The life cycle of automotive chip products is required to be more than 15 years, and the reliability and stability of automotive chips are strictly required.
Mr. Albert Li analyzed that how to maintain reliability is the first issue to be considered by vehicle gauge chip manufacturers. The current layout of the chip technology in the harsh environment to maintain a long life, there will be no failure and instability of the chip IP, and a set of own methodology.
LYG is also actively training chip talents to fill the talent gap in the chip industry.
Cultivate chip talents
Chip monopoly, in the final analysis, is the monopoly of talent.
The manufacturing process of the chip itself is long and complex, there are many intermediate nodes, and many technical talents are needed.
In fact, at present, China's semiconductor industry talent standard system is gradually established, Xi 'an University of Electronic Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology, University of Macau and other high-quality universities for China's semiconductor industry to cultivate a large number of outstanding talents.
But the brain drain is still a serious problem. The main reason is the lack of productive training environment with engineering practical experience. Lack of competition platform channel for selecting outstanding innovative industry talents; There is a lack of collaborative education platform between industrial employment and education.
LYG has a mission - to train and cultivate domestic basic chip design talents.
Mr. Albert Li said that for college students, LYG has been hold 6 periods of 3 to 6 months of study for 3 years. College students can complete their graduation projects in the company. College students in LYG Institute accept the whole industrial chain solution, including IP, EDA, chip design and other aspects. In this way, students can understand all aspects of the chip industry chain, and choose a diversified direction after graduation.
In fact, many international students do not understand the booming semiconductor industry in China, and LYG chip technology provides channels for college students to understand the industry ecology and accumulate contacts. Students who study abroad have the opportunity to study in China, which is very important for international students to return to work and contribute to the domestic semiconductor industry.
This summer, 33 students from 19 universities at home and abroad, including University of Macau, Macao University of Science and Technology, Zhuhai University of Science and Technology, Tongji University, University of California, Santa Barbara, Irvine California, University of South Florida, participated in this workshop.
The curriculum is specially planned by the R&D management team of Lingyange . In addition to teaching integrated circuit professional knowledge and comprehensive project drills, there are also comprehensive knowledge learning such as industry news consulting broadcasting, patent writing, and financial and tax management. In the nearly one-month immersive experience class, students and experts have close discussions on project practice and interactive exchanges, improve industry cognition, and give play to the practical ability of complex innovation.
In recent years, China's semiconductor industry has developed rapidly, with the rise of semiconductor chip design service providers such as Lingyange Semiconductor Inc, it will help optimize industrial development, and is a collaborative service for the rapid development of semiconductor industry.
Note: This article is from the "chip list"