QNX Automotive Software

ISO 26262 safety certification is a huge burden—and an almost insurmountable challenge when you use software of unknown provenance (SOUP). Using a pre-certified microkernel OS or embedded hypervisor for building safety-critical systems can significantly reduce the scope, cost, risk, and duration of your certification processes—and allows you to run mixed-criticality systems on the same SoC. 

QNX solutions including QNX^® OS for Safety, QNX^® Hypervisor for Safety, and QNX^® Black Channel Communications Technology are pre-certified by TÜV Rheinland up to ISO 26262 ASIL D to accelerate compliance by reducing the scope of system certification. We also have functional safety training and safety services to help you successfully navigate your next certification project.

A cybersecurity breach could put drivers, passengers, and the public at risk. QNX can help achieve vehicle security with ultra-secure products like QNX^® OS 8.0 and the QNX^® Hypervisor as well as vulnerability assessments and security services.

The QNX^® microkernel OS reduces the attack surface by running all services outside of kernel space and provides multi-layered protection with system-wide security policies, path trust, fortified functions, access controls, security tooling, and separation and isolation mechanisms. We also provide automotive security services to help at each phase in the software development lifecycle. 

When components on the same SoC have mixed criticality, such as infotainment, instrument cluster, digital cockpit, ADAS and acoustics management, safe system design can be a challenge.

QNX OS 8.0 and the QNX Hypervisor provide both spatial and temporal freedom from interference measures. The QNX Hypervisor provides broad design flexibility, enabling developers to integrate components of mixed criticality and multiple operating systems on one SoC. QNX Black Channel Communications Technology adds an additional layer of protection to ensure safe data communication exchanges within safety and mixed-criticality systems. 

Standardized software helps scale technology across vehicle programs. Designing and building your systems using standard APIs (e.g., PSE54, OpenGLES) and tools (e.g., ,GCC toolchain, Eclipse IDE and plugins) provides widespread benefits for development workflows. Additionally, the use of trusted software that scales for use on single core to multicore high-performance processors ensures maximum portability and design flexibility.

The QNX OS is POSIX-based, like Linux^®, and uses the same Eclipse development environment, including the GNU compiler. BlackBerry is a member of the Adaptive AUTOSAR consortium, and QNX OS for Safety and QNX Hypervisor for Safety support the Adaptive Platform.