Huayu Tongsoft completed the A1 round of financing of tens of millions of RMB, and Lanchi Venture Capital invested exclusively

Recently, Huayu Tongsoft (hereinafter referred to as "Huayu") announced that it has completed the A1 round of financing of tens of millions of yuan, exclusively invested by Lanchi Venture Capital.This round of financing will help Huayu's continuous investment in technology research and development and team expansion in the field of intelligent driving, and accelerate the mass production of Huayu's intelligent driving basic software products represented by the "Swift" communication middleware.

Under the trend of "software-defined car", building a centralized electrical and electronic architecture and SOA software architecture has become the evolution direction of smart cars.The collaboration between different domain controllers, the development and integration of intelligent driving applications, and vehicle OTA have all put forward higher requirements for the data communication of intelligent vehicles, and brought a series of new challenges that need to be solved urgently, such as high-speed operation in complex scenarios. Performance communication, decoupling of software and hardware architectures, and security guarantees in the communication process.As the underlying core technology in the field of intelligent driving, high-performance communication middleware is the key to solving the above problems.Similar to chips and operating systems, fully autonomous and controllable high-performance communication middleware has become one of the core requirements for the development of smart cars in my country.

Huayu was founded in 2020 and continues to focus on the research and development and innovation of intelligent driving basic software.In 2021, Huayu released the first domestic communication middleware based on the DDS standard completely independently developed - "Swift" communication middleware (Greenstone SWIFT DDS). Real-time and reliable transmission enables rapid development and efficient deployment of upper-layer applications, and supports massive multi-source heterogeneous data communication for intelligent driving.OEMs and Tier 1s can build a loosely coupled and easily extensible communication system architecture based on the "Swift" communication middleware, further realizing the rapid transition to a centralized electrical and electronic architecture, and providing better underlying architecture support for the realization of "software-defined vehicles" in the future .

"Swift" communication middleware architecture diagram

Since the completion of the A round of financing in 2021, Huayu has accelerated product development and implementation.At present, "Swift" communication middleware can run not only on mainstream application processors such as ARM A core and X86, but also on computing units with limited resources, such as MCU, M core, R core, etc., and can be adapted to AUTOSAR AP, AUTOSAR CP, VxWorks, QNX, FreeRTOS and other middleware and real-time operating systems.With strong basic software research and development capabilities, local engineering capabilities, and in-depth understanding of the evolution of intelligent driving electronic and electrical architecture, Huayu has received a lot of attention and recognition in the industry in a short period of time. A fixed-point project for domestic and foreign leading OEMs and Tier 1s to accelerate the mass production of different models and platforms.

Zhong Shaochen, co-founder and CEO of Huayu, said: "Faced with the rapid transformation of automotive electronic and electrical architecture and the evolution of software architecture to SOA, Huayu is committed to providing customers with a wealth of products from the basic software level, helping OEMs and Tier 1 to quickly, Efficiently build an intelligent driving software architecture to further accelerate the mass production of intelligent vehicles. This year, Huayu will promote mass production projects at full speed to help more customers in the automotive industry create intelligent automotive products. The development of intelligent driving in China.”

Investor Lanchi Ventures said: "At a time when the entire automotive industry is rapidly developing towards intelligence, networking, electrification and sharing, in order to realize 'software-defined vehicles', automotive software under the new EE architecture needs to be Replaced and upgraded by a more modern software middleware platform. Huayu Tongsoft is determined to become a world-class intelligent car software product company. The car middleware products they develop, especially the fully autonomous and controllable car communication based on OMG DDS The middleware has been recognized by OEMs and various types of partners, and has now begun mass production. The cooperation team has a deep understanding of basic software, a new generation of technology stacks, automotive EE architecture and systems, and has developed and implemented Experience. Lanchi is delighted to be an investor in Huayutongsoft's A1 round and looks forward to Huayutongsoft's ability to lead the development of basic software in China's auto industry and go global."