Drako Tech announces DriveOS™ HyperSafety: world’s first single-ECU automotive platform

SAN JOSE, CA – December 16, 2025 – Drako Tech today announced DriveOS with HyperSafety™:  the automotive industry’s first single-ECU hard real-time automotive operating system.

The Drako DriveOS platform was launched in 2015 and has been battle-tested in Drako GTE and Drako Dragon high performance vehicles. It consolidates all vehicle subsystem, including control systems, ADAS, digital cockpit, and entertainment, into a single standard PC – reducing cost, enabling faster development, and delivering cyber-secure OTA updates.  DriveOS supports all propulsion systems – ICE, EV, and hybrid.

HyperSafety Sets New Safety Standards

Drako’s HyperSafety defines a new multi-layered standard for automotive safety performance — delivering predictable real-time performance under all operating conditions.

1. Ultra-safe driving responsiveness: Single-ECU architecture provides nanosecond-level control processing. DriveOS control and networking backbone delivers four times faster communication compared with multi-ECU TSN automotive Ethernet. 
   
2. Continuous operation even if multiple components fail: The  architecture deploys strict  hardware isolation as well as hardware and software redundancy. 
   
3. Cyber-secure connectivity: An order-of-magnitude smaller code footprint, secure hardware partitioning, and on-chip memory communication between virtual ECUs dramatically reduce attack surfaces and streamline safety validation and OTA updates.
   
4. AI guardrails: The entire communication flow is continuously analyzed to detect & prevent erroneous operation.
   

Powerful Solutions Accelerate OEM Deployment

Drako Tech provides systems, development environments, and reference designs that run natively on Drako DriveOS:

1. Control systems development environment: The Drako Design Environment enables control engineers to build high-performance vehicle control systems directly from Simulink models, preserving their existing tools and workflows.
2. Digital cockpit: A full-featured, customizable cockpit system ready to be branded and deployed, featuring high-resolution instrument cluster support, native navigation, advanced multimedia, vehicle & fleet management tools, and multi-display support.
3. ADAS development environment: A unified software foundation for building advanced driver assistance systems with ultra-low latency control and support for industry-standard AI platforms.

Automotive Industry’s Critical Challenge

The industry’s common multi-ECU architectures struggle with integration complexity – seats, doors, lights, active and passive safety, suspension, thermal management, sensors, cameras, radars, lidars and actuators that vary across vehicle models. Each requires separate ECUs, creating integration complexity and restricting reuse, resulting in higher costs and slower time-to-market.

Drako DriveOS Solves Major Industry Problem: Full Consolidation with Uncompromised Safety

The shift to single-ECU architectures has previously been hindered by two fundamental barriers: 1) how to run safety-critical control systems alongside non-critical systems like infotainment on the same ECU without interference, and 2) how to physically connect hundreds of diverse vehicle subsystems to a single compute unit.

Drako Tech is the first to solve both challenges – through a separation kernel that provides safety isolation and a unified electronics system that enables reliable, low latency connectivity across all vehicle domains.

Bringing Hard Real-Time Capabilities to Linux

Drako DriveOS brings hard real-time capabilities to Linux – finally cementing Linux as the holy grail for safety critical, cyber physical systems and eliminating the need for multi-ECU RTOS. The DriveOS platform enables developers to leverage the vast Linux ecosystem of libraries, applications, and tools – without kernel changes.