36氪 was exclusively informed that “Jiefang Information” recently completed the B round of 100 million yuan financing, led by Huaqiang Capital, followed by Yudao Ventures, Zhongbo Juli, and Xilin Investment as financial advisor. This round of financing will be used for product iteration and market development. In 2021, Jiefang Information has received tens of millions of yuan in A1 and A2 rounds of investment from Langmafeng and Cisco Ruixin.
36 Krypton has previously made detailed reports on the information of the intermediary. Jifang Information was established in 2016, mainly based on the concept of “software definition” to provide one-stop software and hardware platform solutions for military equipment. Specific products include SCA software (ubiquitous operating system), IDE tools and high-end hardware boards. Products have been widely used in communications, command and control, electronic warfare, radar, satellite, orbit, power and other fields. In 2022, Jiefang Information’s products will continue to be deployed in various types of equipment, and the future market space can be expected.
The reason for the accelerated commercialization is that the value of its high-end equipment operating system is gradually emerging.
In military scenarios, common radio equipment involves communications, radar, electronic stations, satellites, weapon equipment guidance, etc., and the types of hardware products are quite complex. High-end equipment often needs to integrate dozens or even hundreds of high-end industrial processors such as general-purpose CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and DSPs, and use a large number of high-end industrial buses.
This means that, unlike consumer operating systems with simple hardware structures and deterministic functions, military radio application developers need to devote most of their energy to hardware research and development, and it is difficult to focus on algorithms and software that are more important to user experience.
The U.S. military was the first to discover and solve this problem, and it launched a set of top-level design architecture standards called SCA, based on which a software framework independent of hardware devices was established to ensure the portability and scalability of software and hardware. Configurability to ensure interoperability between products developed according to SCA.
Therefore, also based on the SCA standard, what Intermediary does is to provide a high-performance framework-level operating system to decouple software and hardware. “This system can help software developers shield the underlying hardware details and decouple the complex It encapsulates and abstracts the hardware environment, and manages its reliability, security and operational efficiency.” said Xu Sheng, founder of Jiefang Information.
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For the field of high-end equipment, another indicator to measure the competitiveness of the operating system is whether it can improve the comprehensive efficiency of equipment use. Whether it is communication equipment or automobiles, high-end equipment needs to be able to operate stably under unpredictable conditions.
For example, if an armored vehicle is driven to very bumpy terrain, the equipment may damage key components after violent shaking, and the operating system must ensure that the damage will not spread. In the high temperature and high pressure environment, what damage points should be prevented. From a larger perspective, under the latest operational requirements and tactical system requirements, different combat units often need to share a single hardware, which requires an operating system that can solve the aforementioned complex situations to cope with the ever-changing battlefield. An operating system based on the SCA standard can be well adapted to this requirement.
In terms of the market, Xu Sheng told 36氪, “The market space for information equipment construction in my country is huge, and the core team of Jiefang has been deeply involved in this sub-sector since 2011. As the core supporting unit of many scientific research institutes, Jiefang is also actively involved. Participated in the development of a lot of equipment and ushered in bulk purchases.” According to his calculations, the company’s products in this segment have an annual market space of 40 billion yuan.
Just as the U.S. military has turned its technology to high-end civilian equipment, Xu Sheng said that in the future, it will also target the SDV (software-defined vehicle) vehicle-level operating system, “In recent years, most of the software-defined vehicles mentioned in China, It is still limited to the smart cockpit domain, and in terms of cross-domain, it is mostly limited to middleware, and we will follow the foreign benchmarking companies and deploy a real vehicle-level operating system.”
In the past ten years, Intermediary Information has the engineering experience of virtualizing a large number of heterogeneous FPGAs, DSPs, CPUs and industrial buses into standardized software interfaces, and has achieved sufficient reliability and security, while requiring centralized computing. Under the development trend of resource-based smart cars, the underlying technologies required are the same.
Owner’s point of view:
Chen Yu, general manager of Huaqiang Capital, said: “ The founding team of Jiefang Information, headed by Mr. Xu and Mr. Chang, has a high strategic vision, strong team cohesion and great dedication. It is difficult to define high-end equipment by software, and SCA software originated from solving radio scenarios. The underlying logic and architecture can realize software definition of various types of high-end equipment. The application fields include communications, radar, satellite, electric power, rail transit, and automobiles. Software definition can greatly improve the functional diversity of complex equipment. It is expected to bring subversive changes in various fields, and Jiefang Information is one of the few companies in China that can fully independently develop SCA software, and will become a leader in the industry. ”
Zhongbo focuses on the point: “SCA is an intelligent operating system for high-end equipment, which belongs to the ‘stuck neck’ technology. Its essence is to use the underlying framework to encapsulate and abstract the hardware environment of multi-core heterogeneous embedded systems and manage it, and develop software for software development. open programming interface. SCA technology can be applied to military and high-end industrial fields, and robots and automotive electronics are also heterogeneous embedded systems in nature. I hope that through the help of capital, we can consolidate China’s national defense security together with intermediary information and promote robotics. , the development of emerging technology industries such as automotive intelligence.”
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- 2022-10-17 “Jiefang Information” completed the B round of RMB 100 million financing, led by Huaqiang Capital
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