Chinese Scientist Shen Xubang Passes Away; Contributions to Embedded Computer and Chip Design
TapTechNews August 16th news, according to the obituary on the public account of Xi'an Institute of Microelectronics Technology today, Chinese Academy of Sciences academician, China's famous computer expert, and researcher of Xi'an Institute of Microelectronics Technology of China Aerospace Electronics Technology Research Institute Shen Xubang, passed away in Xi'an on August 16, 2024 due to ineffective medical treatment, at the age of 92.
Shen Xubang is one of the pioneers in the field of embedded computer and chip design in China, and he has made outstanding contributions to the development of China's aerospace electronics technology.
TapTechNews learned from publicly available information that Shen Xubang was born in January 1933, from Linli, Hunan. After graduating from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of Peking University in 1957, Shen Xubang immediately devoted himself to the research and development of China's computing technology and successively held positions such as assistant researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and deputy director of Xi'an Institute of Microelectronics Technology.
In 1997, Shen Xubang was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has also won the national-level special prize for scientific and technological progress once and the third prize three times. His works include seven such as Design of Ultra-Large-Scale Integrated Systems.
In 2016, Shen Xubang won the CCF Lifetime Achievement Award of the China Computer Society.
Shen Xubang has been engaged in embedded computer and chip design:
In the early days, he designed two kinds of onboard digital computers for small and medium-scale integrated circuits, making outstanding contributions to solving the problem of miniaturization of onboard digital computers;
In 1977, he developed a 16-bit embedded microcomputer with NMOS large-scale integrated circuit, promoting the development of MOS technology;
In the early 1980s, he developed four digital signal processing chips;
In 1995, he developed a fixed-point 32-bit RISC microprocessor chip;
In 1996, he developed a 320-million-times MPP processing element chip, and a SIMD coprocessor with 4096 processing elements and a floating-point 32-bit RISC microprocessor chip, and related computers, etc.