QNX Embedded OS and Hypervisor for Aerospace and Defense

Standardized software can help you scale your technology and leverage valuable talent across systems and programs. Building your mission-critical systems using standardized tools (e.g., GCC toolchain, Eclipse IDE and plugins) and APIs (e.g., PSE54, Linux^®, OpenGL^® ES) is essential. Additionally, leveraging trusted software that seamlessly scales from single-core to multicore high-performance compute platforms will help you ensure maximum portability and design flexibility.

With the QNX^® Software Development Platform (SDP), developers can leverage their skills and knowledge to ramp up quickly, because QNX OS 8.0 is POSIX based, looks and feels like Linux, and uses the familiar Eclipse development environment, including the GNU compiler collection.

As embedded systems become increasingly complex and connected, so, too, does the risk of cyberattack. A secure system requires a secure OS, secure over-the-air (OTA) software updates, a secure supply chain, managed PKI authentication, and FIPS-certified encryption. QNX OS 8.0 microkernel architecture reduces the attack surface available to cyberthreats and provides multi-layered protection with system-wide security policies, path trust, fortified functions, access controls, separation and isolation mechanisms and security tooling.

BlackBerry^® QNX^® Security Services will help you at each phase of the software development lifecycle as well as with binary security testing with BlackBerry^® Jarvis^® to identify vulnerabilities in open-source software.

System designers need to select the best hardware to meet each system’s unique requirements. QNX OS 8.0 is a full-featured microkernel RTOS optimized to run on the most popular ARM and x86 systems on a chip (SoCs).

The QNX Hypervisor provides even broader design flexibility, enabling the safe and secure use of multiple operating systems (QNX OS 8.0, Linux^®, Android™ and others) on a single SoC. With the QNX Hypervisor, not only can you run diverse OSs on the same SoC, but these OSs can share physical devices, reducing initial product hardware costs, power consumption and total cost of ownership, while ensuring system separation, isolation and overall performance.

Aerospace and defense systems have extremely long lifecycles and demand decades-long support and services. For 40 years, BlackBerry QNX has been a trusted supplier of embedded software, development tools and professional services. Thousands of companies globally trust the BlackBerry QNX software portfolio for use in a broad range of embedded systems for which failure isn’t an option. BlackBerry QNX safety-certified solutions and world-class professional services are trusted to help ensure system reliability, accelerate time-to-market and reduce development costs.

QNX OS 8.0 and QNX Hypervisor architecture help aerospace and defense companies develop robust systems that are both secure and reliable. Their foundational microkernel architecture provides the isolation and the freedom from interference essential to mission-critical systems. All services run outside kernel space, providing a high-availability, fault-tolerant design into which new or updated services can be introduced without modification of the kernel.

The QNX Hypervisor virtualization technology enables system designers to consolidate multiple systems onto a single SoC, reducing overall system SWaP-C while providing the same reliability as QNX OS 8.0.