Fuchsia architecture

The following architectural principles guide Fuchsia's design and development:

  • Simple: Fuchsia makes it easy to create, maintain, and integrate software and hardware across a wide range of devices.

  • Secure: Fuchsia has a kernel and software model designed for modern computing.

  • Updatable: As a modular operating system, Fuchsia allows the kernel, drivers, and software components to be independently updatable.

  • Performant: Fuchsia is designed for real world product requirements and optimized for performance.

Data table showing high-level diagram of the entire Fuchsia system
  architecture, highlighting core components and subsystems.

The core of the system is Zircon , a kernel and collection of libraries for handling system startup and bootstrapping. All other system components are implemented in user space and isolated, reinforcing the principle of least privilege. This includes:

  • Device drivers
  • Filesystems
  • Network stacks