--- title: Nucleus RTOS Reviews meta\_title: 'Nucleus RTOS Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 24 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Nucleus RTOS works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.2 review\_count: 24 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: IoT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/iot-management --- # Nucleus RTOS Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Nucleus RTOS but has limited features. Are you part of the Nucleus RTOS team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! The Nucleus RTOS is deployed in over 3 billion devices and provides a highly scalable micro-kernel based real-time operating system designed for scalability and reliability. System reliability can be improved using lightweight memory partitioning support that can function with or without MMU/MPU assisted protection in systems spanning the range of aerospace, industrial, and medical applications. Developers can make full use of multi-core solutions across the spectrum of Microcontroller and Microprocessor SoCs using SMP and AMP configurations to integrate multiple operating systems. To meet the power requirements of todays advanced designs, engineers can ease development with integrated power management in Nucleus that includes support for DVFS, deep sleep modes, and power/clock gating. * * * Seller [Siemens Digital Industries Software](https://www.g2.com/sellers/siemens-digital-industries-software) Discussions [Nucleus RTOS Community](https://www.g2.com/products/nucleus-rtos/discuss) Overview by Yolanda Dong Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/nucleus-rtos/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![TinyOS](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "TinyOS") TinyOS 4/5(25) ](https://www.g2.com/products/tinyos/reviews) [ ![Amazon FreeRTOS](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amazon FreeRTOS") Amazon FreeRTOS 4.1/5(13) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-freertos/reviews) [ ![Red Hat Enterprise Linux](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Red Hat Enterprise Linux") Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6/5(977) ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/nucleus-rtos/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 24 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Sobin T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sobin T.") ST Sobin T. Device Driver Developer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/12/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Nucleus RTOS Review for the designing of smart systems." 3.5/5 What do you like best about Nucleus RTOS? Best part is it modularity and the support for priority inheritance. The entire system is modularized and this helps in easy porting to different Modules. The file system provided by the nucleus was good in the sense it supported the Power fail system it was very important for the embedded system and this helped in saving the contents when the power goes and this helped us a lot. Also the drivers were cleanly written and the test cases was very easy to develop. There was also support for the IOT based system where the support for POSIX was there. When you have support for POSIX this means your software will readily blend to it , Most of the the software is written in linux and this means that the Code will inherently ready to blend with the Nucleus RTOS Nucleus SmartFit from Mentor Graphics Corporation is a binary version of the Nucleus RTOS optimized to fit the limited internal memory of 32-bit MCUs. Nucleus SmartFit includes Sourcery CodeBench development tools and provides developers with broad connectivity and power consumption options for developing products based on 32-bit MCUs. Included in the Nucleus RTOS is the Power Management Framework with which developers can maximize battery life in power-efficient applications. In addition to Sourcery CodeBench development tools, the Nucleus SmartFit platform can be configured to include I/O and bus support, file systems, networking IPv4/IPv6, wireless, and USB functionality. The Nucleus SmartFit product is suited for medical and personal healthcare, smart grid, industrial sensors, and white goods products.. Open source toolchain experts providing toolchain commercialization, customization and support services enabling a wide variety of processor architectures and HPC accelerator offload support for over 20 years -\> High-quality open source commercial grade toolchains GCC and LLVM based customized compilers and libraries High Performance Computing enablement including accelerator offload support for GPU, multicore CPUs, DSPs, FPGAs and custom accelerators Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Nucleus RTOS? The Debug agent is a bit slow and this creates problem. The BDI Agent provided is not that efficient. The Boot loader provided by the Nucleus was not that easy to work with. We had to use trace 32 for this purpose and they will promote use to use the BDI agent please dont go with that. The Debug agent is a bit slow and this creates problem. The BDI Agent provided is not that efficient. The Boot loader provided by the Nucleus was not that easy to work with. We had to use trace 32 for this purpose and they will promote use to use the BDI agent please dont go with that. The Debug agent is a bit slow and this creates problem. The BDI Agent provided is not that efficient. The Boot loader provided by the Nucleus was not that easy to work with. We had to use trace 32 for this purpose and they will promote use to use the BDI agent please dont go with that. The Debug agent is a bit slow and this creates problem. The BDI Agent provided is not that efficient. The Boot loader provided by the Nucleus was not that easy to work with. We had to use trace 32 for this purpose and they will promote use to use the BDI agent please dont go with that. The Sourcery code bench is a bit slow and this is not useful for debugging unlike the one given by the qNX The RTOS was bit failed in priority inversion tests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Nucleus RTOS solving and how is that benefiting you? We used Nucleus RTOS against QNX for cost point of view and on comparison for the basic sattelite phones both fared same The problems included the Priority control for the threads running in the system and how to deal with it. There were lot of drivers that need to be ported and we had a mentor graphics team delivering that this helped a lot. They had dedicated customer care teeam that helped in giving the drivers and the BSP packages to us. Also the drivers were clean written and we had to just port them and use them The test code we had to write using the drivers that was given to us. Using OpenACC to exploit application parallelism with minimal effort Extensive architecture support including Arm®, RISC-V, MIPS®, and POWER® Integrated development tools with Eclipse-Based IDE Support for rich UI graphics File system support for many of the leading format types Multicore Support includes xAMP and SMP support with rpmspg over virtIO and MCAPI for inter-process communication POSIX support for application portability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![sharmith j.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "sharmith j.") SJ sharmith j. Project Lead Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/5/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Usage of Nucleus RTOS in safety critical systems in Avionics and Automotive industry" 4/5 What do you like best about Nucleus RTOS? I had used Nucleus RTOS in Validating the Power distribution system in Aerospace industry . And also currently using it in a Embedded (Electric drive) field. There are few points for which i felt it as one of the best in market . It supports Power PC architecture, which was used in our project secondary power distribution assembly of an aircraft. Nucleus is used to provide an environment to allow multiple tasks toexecute on a single CPU which includes providing a system where time (task execution) and space (memory) are partitioned to allow different levels of criticality software to be independent.. It also provides inter-task communication in an atomic fashion. As it is lightweight it is easy to use for a space partitioning system. one more major plus point is it works well with all mainly used embedded architecture which is important for a system to fit in any environment if in case any future changes required. The latest Nucleus supports advanced UI features and the optimized code of the framework helps in faster debugging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Nucleus RTOS? For any product improvisation is very important which comes as the time moves on. As we all know the future of embedded systems is IOT as of now . Apart from it i dont have any dislikes in this as of now but yes in future lot of improvements will come. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Nucleus RTOS: Many people have started using it for a next generation systems which tells the story about it.The future of complex systems require RTOS like this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Nucleus RTOS solving and how is that benefiting you? Nucleus is a safety-certified, real-time operating system (RTOS) . As we had used old version Nucleus in previous projects now we are upgrading this with the latest Nucleus plus where the power management system is built in which is an advantage. Based on the connectivity, communication and cloud i feel IOT plays a major role which also might hinder some of the regular RTOS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/16/2020 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite NR Naveed R. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/30/2020 "Broad support of different hardware architecture" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Nucleus RTOS? Nucleus has a broad set of BSPs available off the shelf that will help you to reduce time to market for your product. The driver support is also rich and contain all peripheral driver e.g. UART, I2C, SPI, Gyroscope, CRC engine, interrupt controllers, PLLs, ethernet, NAND \ NOR flashes, CAN, LIN, Touch panel and display etc. Even if you have a custom board, the drivers are super easy to develop because driver interface is highly influenced by baremetal development mind set. Nucleus support different hardware architectures e.g. ARM, PowerPC, MIPS and many more. Apart from that Nucleus latency time is very short. The scheduling latency is as low as 6 usec which makes it favorable for time critical applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Nucleus RTOS? The software stack of Nucleus is a bit complex and can be buggy. There has to be a simpler, more efficient software stack to develop IOT based products. The reason for complexity is the need to develop a software stack that fits the broad portfolio of Nucleus based products like MEMF, Hypervisor etc. but in most cases it is not required by user. The process model support is also not very mature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Nucleus RTOS: I would advise to use safety certified version of Nucleus if you could because it is much more simpler then standard Nucleus RTOS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Nucleus RTOS solving and how is that benefiting you? I have used Nucleus for software development of network switch. To meet my timing requirements, I by passed Nucleus network software stack and it was super easy to do that using simpler driver / stack implementation. Further benefits include better throughput and symmetric multi processing support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![ARUN JOE C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "ARUN JOE C.") AC ARUN JOE C. Senior Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/3/2021 "Best Choice for Medical Instrumentation." 4/5 What do you like best about Nucleus RTOS? The power management options available are excellent and go in hand with many of the advanced MCUs and MPUs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Nucleus RTOS? Requirements to run the kernel is pretty heavy, a Beta version would plug this gap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Nucleus RTOS: Developer mostly chooses a simple Kernel. Nucleus RTOS would appear heavy, however it could be the one that bring out complete capability of your MCU. It would be a best choice for Medical Instrumentation or any similar applications involving long running algorithms that are complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Nucleus RTOS solving and how is that benefiting you? I built an entire medical diagnostic device with Nucleus RTOS, which had multiples tasks running DSP algorithms relating to Cardiology and other parameters, The low power management was good when the device was made portable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Wireless](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Wireless") UW Verified User in Wireless Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/9/2020 "Thin yet feature rich RTOS" 5/5 What do you like best about Nucleus RTOS? We had used nucleus RTOS for our 2G/3G/4G protocol stack Development. I felt the code is written in an optimized manner and easy to understand.it was very easy to make our protocol stack run on top of nucleus RTOS. Multicore support with SMP helped us to structure our protocol stack and distribute the tasks to different cores so that we could achieve minimum latency. Memory footprint was very small compared to other Free open source Rtos's available. We were developing our own RTOS (to reduce the licensing complications ) Nuclues RTOS helped us very much to clearly understand how to design and develop an RTOS from scratch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Nucleus RTOS? We had used Nuclues RTOS back in 2012 to 2015, to be honest we dint find anything to dislike about it,it included all the features which were necessary for our product,it has evolved a lot from then. It includes IOT framework support with which the possibilities are endless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Nucleus RTOS: It's a fairly simple and easy to understand RTOS yet it include variety of feature sets such as multicore support,IOT framework support,support for Various BSP'S. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Nucleus RTOS solving and how is that benefiting you? We had used it for our 2G/3G/4G protocol stack development , it provided the support of all features which were necessary to design and develop low latency high speed stack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Automotive](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Automotive") UA Verified User in Automotive Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/6/2021 "RTOS for critical systems" 5/5 What do you like best about Nucleus RTOS? Easy to understand and easy to use the APIs provided. Size of library is small as it does not include complete concepts of generic OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Nucleus RTOS? Nucleus is perfectly structured. no need for changes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Nucleus RTOS solving and how is that benefiting you? I used for automotive infotainment applications where the fast response is highly important. Prioritizing the tasks and providing the time slice to every task by using provided APIs is very helpful. Also, synchronization for the different tasks that are developed on one core is perfectly achieved with locking mechanisms. I used counting semaphore. Efficient usage of memory is also achieved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Roland L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Roland L.") RL Roland L. Senior Embed Software Lead Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/14/2021 "Awesome RTOS" 5/5 What do you like best about Nucleus RTOS? It’s user manual is self explanatory so that anyone can understand and use the RTOS services efficiently.. it’s memory foot print is also less and its best suitable for embedded application development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Nucleus RTOS? Profiling statistics could be better and brief Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Nucleus RTOS: Definitely Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Nucleus RTOS solving and how is that benefiting you? We have ported our application stack compatible with Nucleus RTOS and we achieved the better performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/31/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "NUCLEUS is good if you are looking for a multithreaded RTOS" 4/5 What do you like best about Nucleus RTOS? It has full stack for both networking and USB. Smooth switching between threads and context switching. Well defined API's. Got good support team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Nucleus RTOS? The only problem I seen is at the time I work on this it don't have full pledged wirless stack support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Nucleus RTOS: If you are looking at good power saving products which need a multi threading then you can choose this blindly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Nucleus RTOS solving and how is that benefiting you? I am working for a IOT project and it helped me alot in power management and networking stack stuff Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") UT Verified User in Telecommunications Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/18/2019 "Easy to Understand" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Nucleus RTOS? Its layered Architecture makes easy for users to do understand and implement features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Nucleus RTOS? Need to provide simple way of module access through APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Nucleus RTOS: I do recommend this to other.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Nucleus RTOS solving and how is that benefiting you? Used the RTOS in Earlier Mobile platform for feature phones Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/8/2021 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Automotive](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Automotive") CA Verified User in Automotive Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/14/2020 "Nucleus RTOS for commercial products" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Nucleus RTOS? Nucleus RTOS is a well designed RTOS and is properly supported by excellent documentation. Have been using this RTOS for past 9 years on embedded infotainment products. Would recommend this RTOS for embedded products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Nucleus RTOS? For UI had to use customize designed UI Framework. Felt lagged to support for rich UI framework with performance, but I hope mentor graphics might have supported in the latest versions of Nucleus RTOS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Nucleus RTOS: For embedded products for faster development and performance with standard UI requirement Nucleus RTOS fits in the bill Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Nucleus RTOS solving and how is that benefiting you? Nucleus RTOS helped in achieving Good System Performance and Faster product deliveries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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