Huawei LiteOS was a lightweight

real-time operating system A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system (OS) for real-time applications that processes data and events that have critically defined time constraints. An RTOS is distinct from a time-sharing operating system, such as Unix, which m ...

(RTOS) developed by

Huawei Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ( ; ) is a Chinese multinational technology corporation headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It designs, develops, produces and sells telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics and various sma ...

. It is an

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compliant operating system for

Internet of things The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other com ...

(IoT) devices, released under a three-clause

BSD license BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is in contrast to copyleft licenses, which have share-alike requirements. The original BSD lice ...

Microcontroller A microcontroller (MCU for ''microcontroller unit'', often also MC, UC, or μC) is a small computer on a single VLSI integrated circuit (IC) chip. A microcontroller contains one or more CPUs ( processor cores) along with memory and programmabl ...

s of different architectures such as ARM (M0/3/4/7, A7/17/53, ARM9/11), x86, and RISC-V are supported by the project. Huawei LiteOS is part of Huawei's '1+8+N'

Internet of Things The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other com ...

solution, and has been featured in a number of open source development kits and industry offerings.

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es by Huawei and its former Honor brand run LiteOS. LiteOS has since been incorporated into the IoT-oriented

HarmonyOS HarmonyOS (HMOS) () is a distributed operating system developed by Huawei to collaborate and interconnect with multiple smart devices on the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. In its current multi-kernel design, the operating system select ...

with open source OpenHarmony.

History

On 20 May

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, at the Huawei Network Conference,

proposed the '1+2+1' Internet of Things solution and release the IoT operating system named Huawei LiteOS.

Key features

*Lightweight, small kernel; <10

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s (kB) *Energy efficient *Fast startup within milliseconds *Support

NB-IoT Narrowband Internet of things (NB-IoT) is a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) radio technology standard developed by 3GPP for cellular devices and services. The specification was frozen in 3GPP Release 13 (LTE Advanced Pro), in June 2016. Othe ...

Wi-Fi Wi-Fi () is a family of wireless network protocols, based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves ...

Ethernet Ethernet () is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN). It was commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in 1 ...

, BLE,

Zigbee Zigbee is an IEEE 802.15.4-based specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols used to create personal area networks with small, low-power digital radios, such as for home automation, medical device data collection, and oth ...

, and other different IoT protocols *Support access to different cloud platforms

Supported architectures

* ADI **ADuCM4050 *

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**Atmel SAM D21 Xplained Pro **ATSAM4S-XPRO **ARDUINO ZERO PRO *

GigaDevice GigaDevice Semiconductor () is a Chinese NOR flash memory designer. It also produces microcontrollers, some of them are based on the ARM architecture (GD32 series), and other on the RISC-V architecture (GD32V series). GD32 chips were introduce ...

**GD32F450I-EVAL **GD32F190R-EVAL **GD32F103C-EVAL **GD32F150R-EVAL **GD32F207C-EVAL **GD32VF103 *

**Hi3518 **Kirin A1 *

MediaTek MediaTek Inc. () is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that provides chips for wireless communications, high-definition television, handheld mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers, navigation systems, consumer multimedia ...

**LINKIT7687HDK *

Microchip An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Large numbers of tiny ...

**ATSAME70Q21 *MindMotion **MM32F103_MINI **MM32L373 **MM32L073PF * Nuvoton * Nordic Semi **NRF52840-PDK **NRF52-DK *

NXP NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP) is a Dutch semiconductor designer and manufacturer with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The company employs approximately 31,000 people in more than 30 countries. NXP reported revenue of $11.06 billion in 2 ...

**LPC824_LITE **LPC54110_BOARD **FRDM-KW41Z **FRDM-KL25Z *

Silicon Labs Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (Silicon Labs) is a fabless global technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors, other silicon devices and software, which it sells to electronics design engineers and manufacturers in Internet of Th ...

**EFM32 GIANT GECKO STARTER KIT EFM32GG-STK3700 **EFM32 PEARL GECKO STARTER KIT SLSTK3401A **EFM32 HAPPY GECKO STARTER KIT SLSTK3400A *

STMicroelectronics STMicroelectronics N.V. commonly referred as ST or STMicro is a Dutch multinational corporation and technology company of French-Italian origin headquartered in Plan-les-Ouates near Geneva, Switzerland and listed on the French stock market. ST ...

**STM32F411RE-NUCLEO **STM32F412ZG-NUCLEO **STM32F429I_DISCO **STM32L476RG_NUCLEO **STM32F746ZG_NUCLEO **STM32F103RB-NUCLEO * TI **LAUNCHXL-CC3220SF

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History

Key features

Supported architectures

See also

References

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