Architecture Overview

AliOS Things supports multiple architectures, including ARM, C-Sky, MIPS, rl78, rx600 and xtensa, AliOS Things also supports a large number of boards.

From an architectural point of view, AliOS Things adapts Layered Architecture and Component Architecture. From bottom to top, AliOS Things includes:

BSP: Board Support Package mainly developed and maintained by SoC Vendor
HAL: Hardware Abstraction Layer, like WiFi, UART
Kernel: Rhino RTOS Kernel, Yloop, VFS, KV Storage included
Protocol Stack: LwIP TCPIP Stack, uMesh mesh networking stack included
Security: TLS, TFS(Trusted Framework Service), TEE(Trusted Exexcution Environment)
AOS API: AliOS Things exposed APIs for Application and Middleware
Middleware: Alibaba's value-added and commonly seen IoT components included
Examples: hands-on sample codes, and well tested applications such as linkkitapp

All modules have been organized as Components, and each component has its own .mk file to describe its dependency with other Components, which enables applications to choose components needed easily.

Documentation

AliOS Things' documentation are mainly hosted at Github Wiki.

How to contribute

Please refer to Contributing Guideline.

Quick Start by Command Line using Ubuntu Machine

Please refer to Quick Start.

Quick Start by IDE(supporting Windows/MAC/Linux)

Please refer to AliOS Things Studio.

Community

License

AliOS Things is released under the Apache 2.0 license