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Open-source software powering the future of SDV
Enabling safe, scalable, and efficient SDV development through open-source technologies and decades of embedded automotive expertise
Open source has become the engine of modern innovation – powering everything from cloud platforms to mobile devices. In the automotive industry, it offers a way to accelerate development, reduce costs, and benefit from a shared ecosystem of tools, standards, and best practices. But automotive software comes with unique challenges: long product life cycles, constrained compute environments, and strict safety and security requirements. Open-source adoption in this space must go beyond reuse – it requires adaptation, validation, and long-term support. When done right, open source helps automotive companies build smarter, safer, and more future-proof vehicles.
Establishing new standards through open collaboration
From the outset, we have contributed to open-source projects in the automotive industry, including Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle (Eclipse SDV), Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance (COVESA) and Automotive Grade Linux (AGL).
Interoperability by design
Seamless integration made easy through open interfaces and modular architectures for diverse software ecosystems.
Transparent and traceable
Committed to championing community best practices – we strive to lead by example, inspiring a culture of effective collaboration and innovation within the FOSS ecosystem.
Faster development & lower cost
Shared components and community-driven tools speed up prototyping and reduce redundant engineering.
Secure by community
Open review processes lead to faster detection and resolution of vulnerabilities.
Innovate with confidence: Elektrobit’s open-source projects and solutions
EB corbos Linux – built on Ubuntu
An open-source embedded linux platform, tailored for modern automotive systems. Beyond providing a stable and customizable base OS, we’ve contributed several key features to the community, to help open-source work better in automotive environments:
- elos – A structured event logging framework for embedded systems
- crinit & cominit – Lightweight, deterministic Linux unit packages
- Container solution – Minimal container management tailored to embedded use
- Rupdate – A modular and secure, Rust-based OTA update mechanism
- These features address critical automotive concerns – like startup time, resource constraints, system integrity, and update flexibility – making EB corbos Linux a practical foundation for both prototyping and production.
EB corbos Linux for Safety Applications
Built on the same foundation as our base OS, this variant adds ASIL B functional safety compliance and is delivered as a Safety Element out of Context (SEooC). While this page focuses on open-source contributions, our safety-certified variant extends the same philosophy into regulated environments – without compromising traceability or control.
To support early-stage development, we offer a free SDK download that allows teams to explore and prototype with EB corbos Linux for Safety Applications – before moving into safety-certified production.
EB corbos Hypervisor
ASIL B safety certified, microkernel-based open-source type-1, hypervisor.
A microkernel-based operating system with virtualization support. Its foundation is a variant of the open-source L4Re Operating System Framework maintained by Kernkonzept GmbH.
Ankaios
Open-source container and workload orchestrator for software-defined vehicles.
Elektrobit contributes to Ankaios, a lightweight, Rust-based embedded orchestrator under Eclipse SDV. It addresses the real-time, deterministic, and secure orchestration needs of modern automotive compute platforms.
Rust
Embedded modules to enhance memory safety, simplify concurrency, and increase resilience – especially in mission-critical areas.
The Japan Automotive Software Platform and Architecture (JASPAR) was established in order to pursue increasing development efficiency and ensuring reliability, by standardization and common use of electronic control system software and in-vehicle network which are advancing and complexing.
The Linux Foundation is dedicated to building sustainable ecosystems around open-source projects to accelerate technology development and commercial adoption.
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation provides unparalleled support for open-source communities through financial and intellectual resources, infrastructure, services, events, and training. Working together, the Linux Foundation and its projects form the most ambitious and successful investment in the creation of shared technology.
Elektrobit is member of the Linux Foundation projects ELISA and AGL.
Start creating with us – Your open-source future begins now
Start developing
Cloud-ready, customizable software package complete with an SDK, tooling, and source code.
Webinars
Learn from our experts about open source, SDV, and safety compliance.
Tutorials
Start developing with EB corbos Linux.
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Elektrobit on GitHub, free open-source infrastructure to share codes.
