Chapter1. Overview
The NVIDIA DRIVE
®
OS 6.0 Linux Software Development Kit enables application
development with NVIDIA DRIVE Orin
™
SoC for Automotive. At a high level, the SDK
consists of:
> DRIVE OS foundation components including bootloaders, a Type 1 hypervisor, and
virtualization.
> GuestOS virtual machines including Linux operating systems for system software
and application development.
The DRIVE OS Software Development Kit (SDK) provides industry standard APIs including
NvMedia, CUDA and TensorRT. The CUDA and TensorRT modules included in DRIVE
OS 6.0 software releases are compatible only with the Automotive DRIVE AGX Orin
Platform. As such, they must only be used with DRIVE OS. These modules must not be
used standalone as they are not compatible with other NVIDIA devices.
What is NVIDIA DRIVE OS 6.0?
NVIDIA DRIVE
®
OS 6.0 is the reference operating system and associated software stack
designed specically for developing and deploying autonomous vehicle applications
on DRIVE Orin-based hardware. DRIVE OS 6.0 delivers a safe and secure execution
environment for safety-critical applications, providing services such as secure boot,
security services, rewall, and over-the-air updates.
The included foundational software stack consists of NVIDIA
®
CUDA
®
libraries, NVIDIA
TensorRT
™
, NvMedia, and other components optimized to provide direct access to DRIVE
AGX Orin hardware acceleration engines.
What is NVIDIA DRIVE OS 6.0 SDK?
DRIVE OS 6.0 SDK consists of DRIVE Orin software, libraries, and tools to build,
debug, prole, and deploy applications for autonomous vehicles and self-driving cars
across the CPU, GPU and other DRIVE AGX Orin hardware acceleration engines. These
development tools provide optimized workows for parallel computing and deep learning
development.
In order to maximize productivity, DRIVE OS 6.0 SDK leverages industry standard
tools, technologies, and APIs to provide a familiar and comfortable high-productivity
development environment.
NVIDIA DRIVE OS Linux SDK Developer Guide PR-10720-6.0 _v6.0.8|1
