1. Introduction

What is DRIVE AGX? What is DRIVE Software? Common terminology explained here.

1.1. NVIDIA DRIVE

Scalable AI Platform for Autonomous Driving

Autonomous vehicles will transform the way we live, work, and play, creating safer and more efficient roads. To realize these revolutionary benefits, the car of the future will require a massive amount of computational horsepower. Tapping into decades-long experience in AI, NVIDIA DRIVE™ hardware and software solutions deliver industry-leading performance to help automakers, truck makers, tier 1 suppliers, and startups make autonomous driving a reality.

NVIDIA DRIVE™ platforms include an in-vehicle computer (DRIVE AGX) and complete reference architecture (DRIVE Hyperion™), as well as data center-hosted simulation (DRIVE Constellation™) and deep neural network (DNN) training platforms (DGX™). These platforms also include rich software developer kits (SDKs) to accelerate autonomous vehicle (AV) development.

To learn more about the NVIDIA DRIVE platform, see:

https://developer.nvidia.com/drive

1.2. NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Developer Kit

The NVIDIA DRIVE™ AGX Developer Kit provides the hardware, software, and sample applications needed for development of production level autonomous vehicles (AV). NVIDIA DRIVE AGX System is suitable for any autonomous vehicle ecosystem developer requiring an autograde AI computing platform that meets safety standards (such as ISO 26262/ASIL-D, ISO/PAS 21448), is compliant with key regulatory requirements (such as NHTSA, Euro NCAP), has an open software framework and a large ecosystem of automotive partners (including auto grade sensor vendors, automotive Tier 1 suppliers) to choose from.

The development environment for DRIVE AGX requires a host development PC (not included with the DRIVE AGX Developer Kit). The image below illustrates the development workflow. All the tools illustrated below are installed on the host PC through NVIDIA SDK Manager.

To learn more about the DRIVE AGX platform, see:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/self-driving-cars/drive-platform/hardware/

1.3. NVIDIA SDK Manager

NVIDIA SDK Manager provides an end-to-end development environment setup solution for NVIDIA's DRIVE and Jetson SDKs for both host machine and target devices.

To learn more about NVIDIA SDK Manager, see:

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-sdk-manager

1.4. DRIVE OS

NVIDIA DRIVE™ OS is the reference operating system and associated software stack designed specifically for developing and deploying autonomous applications on DRIVE AGX-based hardware. NVIDIA DRIVE OS delivers a safe and secure execution environment for safety-critical applications, providing services such as secure boot, security services, firewall, and over-the-air updates. The included foundational software stack consists of a Type-1 Hypervisor, NVIDIA® CUDA® libraries, NVIDIA TensorRT™, NvMedia, and other components optimized to provide direct access to DRIVE AGX hardware acceleration engines.

 Note: 

The software development kits required to develop applications for CUDA, cuDNN, and TensorRT are available on your host development system. With DRIVE OS 5.1.9.0, only the runtime components for CUDA, cuDNN, and TensorRT are flashed to the DRIVE AGX Developer Kit target system.

DRIVE OS SDK

NVIDIA DRIVE™ OS Software Development Kit (SDK) is used to develop DRIVE OS applications for deployment on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX™ based hardware platforms.

NVIDIA DRIVE™ OS SDK consists of all required software, libraries, and tools to build, debug, profile, and deploy applications for autonomous vehicles and self-driving cars across the CPU, GPU and other DRIVE AGX hardware acceleration engines. These development tools provide optimized workflows for parallel computing and deep learning development.

In order to maximize productivity, NVIDIA DRIVE OS SDK leverages industry standard tools, technologies, and APIs to provide a familiar and comfortable high-productivity development environment.

DRIVE OS PDK

NVIDIA DRIVE™ OS Platform Development Kit (PDK) is used to modify NVIDIA DRIVE OS to run on non-reference DRIVE AGX-based hardware platforms.

Consult your NVIDIA Customer Support Engineer for more information.

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