Real-Time OS and Software for Commercial Vehicles

Safety certification is a huge undertaking—and an almost insurmountable challenge if you use software of unknown provenance (SOUP), such as Linux^®. Using a safety-certified OS or hypervisor can significantly reduce the complexity, cost, risk and duration of your embedded system certification processes, and help ensure the success of your project.

BlackBerry^® QNX^® solutions are designed with a focus on the safety, security and real-time determinism needed for the next generation of trucks, buses and delivery vans. Pre-certified by TÜV Rheinland for use in applications requiring compliance up to ISO 26262 ASIL D and IEC 61508 SIL 3, QNX^® OS for Safety and QNX^® Hypervisor for Safety provide the ideal foundation to help reduce your development and certification costs and timelines.

QNX OS 8.0 and pre-certified QNX OS for Safety help commercial vehicle manufacturers reduce time to market. Their microkernel architecture provides the isolation and freedom from interference needed for safety-critical systems. The QNX Hypervisor and QNX Hypervisor for Safety lets you run diverse OSs and components with mixed criticality on a single system on a chip (SoC), separating safety-critical from non-safety systems.

With the QNX^® Software Development Platform (SDP) developers can leverage their skills and knowledge to ramp up quickly. QNX OS 8.0 and QNX OS for Safety, and the QNX hypervisors support the Adaptive AUTOSAR standard, are POSIX-based, look and feel like Linux, and use the familiar Eclipse development environment, including the GNU compiler collection.

Reliably available, robust software systems for vehicles require a solid foundation. Electronic control units (ECUs) need to boot quickly, run precisely, never crash and ensure that the highest-priority applications run first. BlackBerry QNX operating systems with their microkernel architecture are in hundreds of millions of vehicles worldwide, and clients around the globe rely on our safety and security experts.

The QNX microkernel OS architecture provides the temporal and spatial isolation needed to ensure system functional safety. It is the foundation for the QNX OS for Safety and the QNX Hypervisor for Safety, which enables you to consolidate multiple operating systems on a single SoC while protecting safety-critical systems. Both are pre-certified to IEC 61508 SIL 3 and ISO 26262 ASIL D.

Commercial vehicle owners can require customer support and service for 15 years or more after the end of production, yet few software vendors offer support for older product versions for the system lifetime. This can be risky for OEMs and service providers, as the risk of cyberattack or exploits increase if software isn’t updated when vulnerabilities are discovered, putting lives and reputations at risk.

BlackBerry QNX supports our customers throughout the production lifecycle and provides ongoing support for as long as needed. BlackBerry QNX experts can help you with any version or release of QNX products, including QNX OS 8.0, QNX OS for Safety, QNX Hypervisor and QNX Hypervisor for Safety, and provides unmatched support over the lifetime of all your products.

As embedded systems become more complex and connected, so, too, does the risk of cyberattacks. A secure system requires at the very least a secure OS, secure over-the-air software updates, a secure supply chain, managed PKI authentication, and FIPS-certified encryption. The microkernel architecture of QNX OS 8.0 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 development lifecycle to identify vulnerabilities in open source software.