Pre-certified OS for Embedded Systems
QNX OS for Safety is engineered with safety and security at its core, and powered by a safe-by-design microkernel architecture trusted in the world’s most demanding systems. For over 45 years, our experts in functional safety and embedded systems have continuously refined it to meet the real-time performance, reliability, and certification needs of mission-critical products.
With QNX as your foundation, you can focus on building the differentiated systems your customers expect, while we help you meet your safety goals with confidence. When failure isn’t an option, QNX is the platform you can count on.
Streamline Certification for Safety-critical Systems
QNX® OS for Safety is a fully featured, hard real-time operating system built on our next-generation microkernel architecture and the QNX Software Development Platform 8.0. Independently certified by TÜV Rheinland, it meets the highest functional safety and cybersecurity standards, including ISO 26262 ASIL D, IEC 61508 SIL3, IEC 62304 Class C, and ISO/SAE 21434.
It also includes qualified C/C++ toolchains (ISO 26262 TCL3 and IEC 61508 TL3) and supporting documentation that helps accelerate your path to certification, whether you're building systems for automotive, medical, industrial, aerospace, defense, rail, robotics, or power generation. When certification is critical and reliability is non-negotiable, QNX is your trusted foundation.
Protect Critical Functionality and Security Needs
Unlock Performance with Leading-edge Hardware and Software
Realiably Certify Your System, Not Your Toolchains
A safety-certified OS and qualified toolchains mean that you’ll have confidence in the software you build, and that you’ll have a quick and smooth certification process.
With the QNX OS for Safety you’ll be able to build your systems with C and C++ toolchains classified as TCL3 and T3 according to ISO 26262 and IEC 61508. You’ll need to certify only the parts of the system you build, not the OS you build it on or the toolchains you use to build it.
Familiar Development Environment with QNX Neutrino RTOS API
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QNX® OS for Safety 8.0, Certified by TÜV Rheinland
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QNX OS for Safety FAQ
How do I port my QNX SDP 8.0 projects to QOS 8.0?
QNX SDP 8.0 and QOS 8.0 are completely binary compatible, meaning projects built for QNX SDP 8.0 can already be built for QOS 8.0. With compatible binaries, APIs, and Toolchains, a migration experience from QNX SDP 8.0 to QOS 8.0 mainly involves familiarizing oneself with the knowledge documented in the key safety artifacts delivered with the QOS, including the Safety and Security Manuals, ensuring that best practices for safety and security are integrated into your embedded system.
What value does using an OS certified to ISO/SAE 21434 provide?
Whether your product is a car, a surgical robot, a drone, or a power plant, choosing a software product certified under ISO/SAE 21434 is a powerful signal of cybersecurity excellence. This certification provides third-party validation that the product was developed with rigorous, risk-based security practices that are well in line with industry best practices, ensuring resilience against modern cyber threats. It reflects QNX's commitment to secure engineering, lifecycle risk management, and proactive threat mitigation.
What if the certification my product needs is not listed?
QNX OS for Safety 8.0 comes certified to an existing set of standards that allow it to be certifiable to a variety of other safety standards recognized across a variety of functional areas including machinery, control systems, power plants, and rail systems. Such standards include, but are not limited to: IEC 62061, ISO 25119, IEC 61513, ISO 13849-1:2015, EN 50128, and EN 50657. QNX also delivers its decades of experience in the safety certification through custom services, helping you build a system that will meet the demanding certification needs of the environment where your products will operate.