Toast without penalty

Company a originally planned to charge the enterprise $800000 for the use of EDA software. As a result, the company was too expensive, so things dragged on. Seeing such a bad ending, I didn't expect trump to launch the embargo and embargo in 2018sanctionZTE, let this American EDA company see the dawn of hope.

 

       It is said that the EDA company in the United States is very strategic and patient. It sent "007" undercover. After several twists and turns, it finally got the irrefutable evidence that the home appliance enterprise pirated and used the EDA software of company A. the evidence is conclusive, the facts are clear, and there is no sophistry. In this way, the home appliance giant was knocked dizzy by the big stick of the intellectual property right claim of the United States.

 

       Is this a toast without penalty, or is it legendaryrob the owner while his house is on fire？

 

       In fact, as early as March 2011, a university teacher and his team have developed a free web versionEasyEDA（easyeda. com）If they download, install and use the software in time, they may avoid this $5.6 million "robbery". Ten thousand steps back, with the university teacher's easyeda software, you can at least bargain with Laomei company, and you won't be so carefully designed as "Fishing law enforcement"!

 

Feelings of University Teachers

       The founder of this magical Chinese easyeda software called by engineers at home and abroad is indeed he Dingqiu, an ordinary university teacher. His original feelings and original intention are very simple:Break the solidification mode of foreign EDA software, which is overweight, slow, complex functions and high fees, and let engineers and educators do it in PCB design - start anytime, anywhere, light weight and fast design！

 

       In 2001, he Dingqiu, who was still in school, used Protel 99SE when he first learned circuit diagram design. Seeing that the software was an all English interface, he was daunted by a large number of professional terms, and then asked the instructor: is there a Chinese version of the software? The teacher replied: at present, we use the cracked version, but we haven't found the Chinese version yet,At present, all EDA software comes from abroad. If China wants to have its own EDA, it depends on you。 Who knows, what the teacher said casually completely affected his subsequent study and life.

 

       At that time, foreign EDA software had a very bad experience for domestic users, he said, for example,How many functions have you used in Microsoft's office system for ordinary users? How many buttons have you clicked? But you have to pay for all the packaging features。 The EDA client of ad downloads a lot of files, has too many functions, opens too slowly, and has too low efficiency. For beginners, it is far beyond the load. We need to make great efforts to lose weight and make it easy to fly.

 

       In 2007, he Dingqiu came to the University as a lecturer and engaged in electronic information teaching. During this period, his students also encountered and raised similar problems. He began to conceive and put the research and development of EDA on the agenda. A single university teacher concentrated his spare time and finally developed an ultra lightweight flash version that users can use directly. But the problem is that the flash version needs to install plug-ins. Many people will have various doubts and the experience is not very friendly.

 

       By 2010, the cloud concept was quite popular. At this time, Apple CEO Steve Jobs also said that he did not support flash. The flash version may "die suddenly",HTML5 became the only technology option。

           Push down and start again. The ideal heding ball can only set sail again. Facing the unprecedented thorny road, no one believes that he can succeed except himself!    
       
       
       

Easy start

       He Dingqiu found the user's pain point, based on JavaScript, followed the idea of lightweight web version, and had been thinking about it for many years. He Dingqiu named the software easyeda. Therefore, he spent a lot of time making the prototype of independent intellectual property software. At the same time, the best software also needs testing, verification, publicity and promotion, which needs help and funds; Therefore, he Dingqiu sold his website for more than 1 million yuan as the initial start-up capital of easyeda software.

 

       Cui Xiping, a senior coder from Cisco, attracted great interest from he Dingqiu. After repeated persistent lobbying and various temptations of picture cakes, Cui Xiping was successfully "fooled" into easyeda's "thief ship", and never looked back. Another legendary partner, Chen Shizhou, came across easyeda software after successfully selling two electronic websites. When he emailed he Dingqiu that he wanted to be an agent in China, he was packaged in easyeda's boat.

 

       China's PCB industry is very developed, but the software for making PCB has been monopolized by foreign countries. After all, the way of destructive innovation is not always easy to achieve. howeverWith the emergence of the web version easyeda, it can help promote the open source hardware revolution and make innovative design faster and easier。 Soon, it caught the pain point of large small and medium-sized users, and the number of user registrations began to show explosive growth.

 

Small 99 of investors

       The three cobblers and their easyeda have attracted the attention of Hangzhou Angel Bay Investment Co., Ltd. At the same time, the acquisition of supplyframe, which is related to the non network, and the well-known Arrow Electronics also noticed the birth of easyeda. They all want to pocket their income with us $1 million.

 

       Between $1 million and entrepreneurial dream, he Dingqiu and other three people chose angel investment in Hangzhou Angel Bay. He Dingqiu and easyeda team spent more than 3 years to develop easyeda, which is expected to obtain huge growth space with the help of Hangzhou Angel Bay.

 

       In fact, he Dingqiu is very clear in his heart that foreigners always maintain a high degree of doubt and cautious denial about whether the Chinese can make a successful easyeda. After all, innovating EDA's cloud business model requires not only great courage, but also user recognition and favor. Perhaps, they want to buy the original intention is to occupy the pit, rather than the team has a chance to succeed.

 

       The only requirement of Hangzhou Bay angel investment company is that he Dingqiu must come out of the University ivory tower and all in to easyeda company. He Dingqiu agreed for his beloved EDA. Apart from his wife, no family and friends supported this decision, and he Dingqiu was even more decisive. He moved his family and team to New York“Hardware Silicon Valley”-- Shenzhen.

 

Value choice of ecological chain

       When easyeda achieved initial success, he Dingqiu began to look to the future. First of all, easyeda is just a design tool, and its products and planning are relatively thin, which is difficult to compete with giants such as ad; Secondly, the design and application of engineers need to meet the needs of the scene and the continuous maintenance of the ecological chain; Finally, easyeda's free realization method is relatively long-term, which is a great test of capital's investment patience.

 

       Racing or merging into the ecological chain? He Dingqiu faces a choice!

 

       In March 2017, component self operated e-commerce Lichuang mall and PCB proofing / small batch leading enterprise jialichuang extended an olive branch. They are keenly aware of the special value of easyeda: the only EDA design software in China and the world's first cloud lightweight version, registered and used by hundreds of thousands of overseas engineers, with unique commercial value. Moreover, with the component BOM procurement of Lichuang mall, jialichuang PCB proofing forms a closed-loop complementary industrial chain.

       

       CEO Yang Linjie made a decision on the spot and decided to acquire easyeda. The two sides soon reached cooperation and provided a better runway and platform for the original investors.

 

       Therefore, all parties readily accepted that easyeda became the invisible champion of traffic portal and web version EDA of Lichuang mall.

 

       It was agreed that in the past, the separation of design and procurement ignored whether the components could be purchased and the procurement cost. If easyeda connects the software with the component mall library, users can understand whether the designed products can be manufactured and how high the cost is, so as to select the appropriate design scheme, improve the PCB production efficiency, and achieve win-win for all parties.

       
       

Advanced innovation EDA

       Foreign users seem to be more inclusive, and they are happy to accept tools that make their work more convenient. In just a few years, easyeda has more than 650000 registered users at home and abroad, covering more than 190 countries and regions around the world.

   

In June 2019, Lichuang EDA will soon launch a new Chinese version of offline client, which can be completely disconnected from the network and fully meet the local development and confidentiality needs of enterprise customers.

       In the future, Lichuang EDA is likely to become a PCB circuit design and production platform "most in line with Chinese habits", integrating design software, component purchase, PCB proofing, SMT patch and PCBA delivery.

 

At the end, the spring forest is in full bloom

       The spring water is born and the spring forest is in full bloom. I'm afraid that the truth is infinite. There is joy in every inch. He Dingqiu, the founder of easyeda and Lichuang EDA, who adheres to Chinese characteristics and conforms to the trend, has transformed from a university lecturer to the CIO of a well-known e-commerce Lichuang mall. However, he said that this is the same. If you can retain your memory, I hope people will remember my contribution to domestic EDA software instead of my ordinary face!

       After the acquisition of easyeda by Lichuang mall, the next step is to develop a Chinese version - Lichuang EDA（    LCEDA. CN    ）, integrate more Chinese design specifications, improve user design efficiency, create an EDA software with "Chinese characteristics", and break the monopoly and profiteering situation of overseas giants.    

 

       With the change of business model, Lichuang EDA Professional Edition launched in 2018 solemnly promises toStay permanently free in China, this also makes users and enterprises do not have to face the legal problems caused by the use of pirated software, so as to avoid the opening of the article by foreignersPretext to restrict and claim high compensationThe situation.

 

       At present,It has been created on Li Chuang EDAMore than 1 million kinds of real-time updated component libraries enable users to focus more on design. Users can also import their own common packaging libraries and place them after online search.And many works are open source, you can directly see that the schematic PCB BOM list is clear at a glance. You can even save these works as your own, modify them later, and then add your own things.