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This powerful platform is designed to meet cutting-edge automotive product requirements, including advanced AI inference, high-performance computer vision, advanced graphics, high-end audio, and complex safety and security use cases. DriveOS also supports autonomous driving and AI-powered cockpit experiences.<br><br>DriveOS enables Linux or QNX as the application operating system with a software development kit for image processing, diverse sensor integration, AI acceleration, low-overhead interprocess communication, and developer tools for debugging and profiling.<br></p><div class="separator separator--30"></div><div class="separator separator--30"></div></div><p id="iowyft" class="text-center"><a id="ixip2l" href="/drive/downloads" class="btn btn-cta text-center">Download DriveOS</a><br></p><div class="separator separator--30"></div><p id="is6r4l" class="text-center"><i id="isxux6">Requires <a href="https://developer.nvidia.com/drive/agx-sdk-program" id="ia5suy">NVIDIA DRIVE AGX™ SDK Developer Program</a> membership</i></p><div class="separator separator--30"></div></div><img src="https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/drive/auto-drive-agx-development-kit-3647451.svg" id="i68zfc" alt="DRIVE OS Stack Diagram" class="mx-auto"></section><hr class="separator"><section class="page__section page__second-section"><div class="row"><div class="col-lg-10 offset-lg-1"><h2 class="h--medium section__heading text-center">Benefits</h2></div></div><div class="row justify-content-center cards__list"><div id="ie4awl" class="col-md-6 col-sm-12 pb-4 col-lg-4"><div id="i1p5u1" class="card-wrapper"><div id="i1p5u1-2" class="card"><h3 id="iyao3" class="h--smallest text-center"><img src="https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/drive/m48-coding-256px-blk.png" alt="Decorative" class="mw-6-rem mx-auto mt-2"><br></h3><div id="iomgr" class="card__content"><h3 class="text-center h--smaller">Programmability</h3><p id="ivxk5">Enables a smooth transition from cloud or workstation to the SoC</p><ul id="ilkoki" class="nv-list"><li id="i1q37m"><div><p class="mb-0">Supports NVIDIA® CUDA® and TensorRT®, widely adopted programming models with a large developer base.</p></div></li><li id="ip11m1"><div><p class="mb-0">Supports unified APIs, from cloud to target.</p></div></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div id="il7sxz" class="col-md-6 col-sm-12 pb-4 col-lg-4"><div id="i1p5u1-5" class="card-wrapper"><div id="i1p5u1-2-4" class="card"><h3 class="h--smallest text-center"><img src="https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/drive/m48-containerized-security-256px-blk.png" alt="Decorative" class="mw-6-rem mx-auto mt-2"><br></h3><div id="i1mndh" class="card__content"><h3 class="text-center h--smaller">Safety and Reliability</h3><p id="iv69m9">Designed for safety-critical applications<br></p><ul id="ip10hl" class="nv-list"><li id="iye0k7"><div><p class="mb-0">Complies with ASPICE, ISO 26262, and ISO/SAE 21434.</p></div></li><li id="ij6i23"><div><p class="mb-0">Supports heterogeneous redundancy for compute workloads.</p></div></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div><div class="row justify-content-center cards__list"><div id="i2s258-2" class="col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-sm-12 pb-4"><div id="i1p5u1-3" class="card-wrapper"><div id="i1p5u1-2-2" class="card"><h3 class="h--smallest text-center"><img src="https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/drive/m48-speed-256px-blk.png" alt="Decorative" class="mw-6-rem mx-auto mt-2"><br></h3><div id="i1mndh-3" class="card__content"><h3 class="text-center h--smaller">Highly Optimized<br></h3><p id="icukv6-2">Efficient processing of time-critical workloads<br></p><ul id="i8ly7g-2" class="nv-list"><li id="ir0p1n-2"><div><p class="mb-0">Camera frames are directly loaded into GPU memory for high-performance sensor interfacing and processing with NvMedia.<br></p></div></li><li id="i8rlth-2"><div><p class="mb-0">Supports NvStreams for efficient data transport, with zero-copy data transfer between hardware accelerators.<br></p></div></li><li id="ihrjpe-2"><div><p class="mb-0">Enables highly flexible sensor-processing pipelines.</p></div></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div id="idvt4z-2" class="col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-sm-12 pb-4"><div id="i1p5u1-4" class="card-wrapper"><div id="i1p5u1-2-3" class="card"><h3 class="h--smallest text-center"><img src="https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/drive/m48-accelerate-computing-with-cuda-c-c-256px-blk(1).png" alt="Decorative" class="mw-6-rem mx-auto mt-2"><br></h3><div id="i1mndh-2" class="card__content"><h3 class="text-center h--smaller">Accelerated Application Development<br></h3><p id="iu4yig-2">Building blocks and tools for automotive software<br></p><ul id="iwbelk-2" class="nv-list"><li id="iotqrd-2"><div><p class="mb-0"><a href="https://developer.nvidia.com/drive/driveworks" id="io2rt1-2" class="nv-link">DriveWorks</a> provides optimized algorithms and tools.<br></p></div></li><li id="i05rh3-2"><div><p class="mb-0">NVIDIA Nsight provides tools for debugging, profiling, and tracing.<br></p></div></li><li id="im24mf-2"><div><p class="mb-0">Offers rich <a href="https://docs.nvidia.com/drive" id="ik499c-2" target="_blank" class="nv-link">documentation</a> including numerous samples to demonstrate features, <a href="/drive/training" id="inazy3" class="nv-link">webinars, and GTC talks</a> to get familiar with DriveOS.</p></div></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div id="idzofq-2" class="col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-sm-12 pb-4"><div id="i1p5u1-3-2" class="card-wrapper"><div id="i1p5u1-2-2-2" class="card"><h3 class="h--smallest text-center"><img src="https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/drive/m48-nim-256px-blk.png" alt="Decorative" class="mw-6-rem mx-auto mt-2"><br></h3><div id="i1mndh-3-2" class="card__content"><h3 class="text-center h--smaller">Virtualization and Containerization<br></h3><p id="iaig0r-2">Comprehensive scalability and isolation features</p><ul id="ivsibh-2" class="nv-list"><li id="ip397h-2"><div><p class="mb-0">Hypervisor manages resources and provides abstraction between underlying hardware and OS on top.</p></div></li><li id="iykzsd-2"><div><p class="mb-0">Guest operating systems provide additional isolation and redundancy.</p></div></li><li id="ise28o-2"><div><p class="mb-0">Host and target side Docker container support enable efficient development.</p></div></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div><div class="separator separator--60"></div></section></main></div> </div> <div id='footer' class='mt-auto'></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (() => { const handleQuotesBlock = (quotesBlock, idx) => { const blockquotes = quotesBlock.querySelectorAll('blockquote'); if (blockquotes.length < 1) { return; } const navContainer = document.createElement('ul'); navContainer.classList.add('quotes-list-navigation'); for (let i = 0; i < blockquotes.length; i++) { let navItem = document.createElement('li'); let btn = document.createElement('button'); btn.type = 'button'; btn.dataset['group'] = idx.toString(); btn.dataset['length'] = blockquotes.length.toString(); btn.value = i.toString(); btn.addEventListener('click', (e) => { const group = e.target.dataset['group']; const groupActiveButtons = 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