Nvidia certifies Drive OS to ASIL-D, but on Orin

Nvidia has certified its Drive OS operating system with TÜV SÜD and TÜV Rheinland in Germany to provide the first ASIL-D operating system.

The Drive AGX Hyperion platform, with the OS, sensor suite and level 2+ software stack was certified on the current AGX Orin production silicon, says Ali Kani, vice president of automotive at Nvidia. Orin is being used by Volvo, Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar Landrover and now Toyota, the world’s largest car maker.

“This is something that was missing from the industry, there is no ASIL-D OS running on a single SoC,” said Kani. “Drive OS is an OS for an advanced SOC and we have hardened CUDA and tensor RT for safety and we have a hardware hypervisor to run efficiently, rather than QNX with a software hypervisor.”

The latest iteration of Hyperion is designed for both passenger and commercial vehicles using the Drive AGX Thor single chip built on the Blackwell architecture and is planned for the first half of this year.

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