Luo Jinhua, the person in charge of NIO’s vehicle operating system, and Wang Qiyan, the person in charge of NIO’s digital system, successively published long articles on Weibo today to “conduct” NIO’s executive flagship ET9, which will be released tomorrow night. “Relay” warm-up. This time we introduce SkyOS, the vehicle-wide operating system that will be fully equipped on the car.
Wang Qiyan said that the operating system is recognized as the crown jewel of software and one of the most core technologies. Due to its difficulty in research and development, its position on the technology stack is very important. Therefore, it is also the most likely to be “stuck” by foreign manufacturers. technology. For cars in the smart electric era, the underlying operating system of the entire vehicle is the “soul” of the car.
With the rapid development of automobile intelligence, the automobile operating system has evolved into a software platform concept: including the operating system kernel, core middleware and key applications.
According to reports, NIO’s soon-to-be-released vehicle-wide operating system SkyOS builds a 1+4+N technology cluster, which have the following meanings:
"1" refers to "SkyOS-H", which supports the virtualization requirements of multiple operating systems in cockpit, smart driving, car control and other domains;
"4" refers to the 4 operating system kernels, which are:
SkyOS-L (Lite) is a lightweight real-time operating system mainly used for MCU, ARM-R/M core, and RISC-V;
SkyOS-M (Medium), a real-time security operating system specially designed for ARM A core, is a dual security operating system carefully designed for vehicle control based on the world's fastest and most secure microkernel;
SkyOS-R (Rich), the underlying operating system used for rich application scenarios such as autonomous driving and cockpit, officially said that it has made "a lot" of optimizations to the real-time operating system kernel;
SkyOS-C (Cockpit), an operating system for cockpits, is deeply customized for Android;
"N" is SkyOS's self-developed core middleware, including AI algorithm framework, AI engine, IoT interconnection, SOA framework, application framework, multimedia framework, OTA, DCL, diagnosis, power management module, and dual security (Security & Safety). Technology clusters such as distributed processing engines.Luo Jinhua said that SkyOS will establish a comprehensive and three-dimensional technology system to enable various devices to be organically integrated and achieve efficient collaborative work.
It was previously reported that at the NIO IN 2023 NIO Innovation and Technology Day event in September this year, Li Bin announced for the first time NIO’s full-range vehicle operating system SkyOS, whose Chinese name is “Tianshu”.
In its preview “series” over the past few days, NIO has successively announced that the car will be equipped with a fully wired intelligent chassis, a 900V high-voltage architecture that breaks the industry’s upper limit, and a self-developed next-generation intelligent driving chip. According to the official definition, the car will be the “culmination of technological innovation” of the NIO brand. Li Bin even said that “the administrative flagship has always been the technological flagship.”
