# NVIDIA DriveOS SDK

NVIDIA DriveOS™ is an automotive operating system developed with industry-standard safety and security methodologies certified by the globally renowned automotive certification organization, TÜV SÜD. 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.

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.

[Download DriveOS](https://developer.nvidia.com/drive/downloads)

_Requires [NVIDIA DRIVE AGX™ SDK Developer Program](https://developer.nvidia.com/drive/agx-sdk-program) membership_

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## Benefits

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### Programmability

Enables a smooth transition from cloud or workstation to the SoC

- Supports NVIDIA® CUDA® and TensorRT®, widely adopted programming models with a large developer base.
- Supports unified APIs, from cloud to target.

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### Safety and Reliability

Designed for safety-critical applications

- Complies with ASPICE, ISO 26262, and ISO/SAE 21434.
- Supports heterogeneous redundancy for compute workloads.

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### Highly Optimized

Efficient processing of time-critical workloads

- Camera frames are directly loaded into GPU memory for high-performance sensor interfacing and processing with NvMedia.
- Supports NvStreams for efficient data transport, with zero-copy data transfer between hardware accelerators.
- Enables highly flexible sensor-processing pipelines.

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### Accelerated Application Development

Building blocks and tools for automotive software

- [DriveWorks](https://developer.nvidia.com/drive/driveworks) provides optimized algorithms and tools.
- NVIDIA Nsight provides tools for debugging, profiling, and tracing.
- Offers rich [documentation](https://docs.nvidia.com/drive) including numerous samples to demonstrate features, [webinars, and GTC talks](https://developer.nvidia.com/drive/training) to get familiar with DriveOS.

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### Virtualization and Containerization

Comprehensive scalability and isolation features

- Hypervisor manages resources and provides abstraction between underlying hardware and OS on top.
- Guest operating systems provide additional isolation and redundancy.
- Host and target side Docker container support enable efficient development.