Foundational Software for Automotive Systems

Driving the Software-Defined Vehicle

QNX^® software is used in more than 255 million vehicles on the road. Automakers and Tier 1s worldwide trust QNX to help them build safe, secure, and reliable automotive systems.

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Virtualization and RTOS for Automotive Systems

The electronic architecture of the vehicle has evolved from being hardware-driven to software-defined. Everything from digital cockpits, to advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), to automated drive controllers, now runs on a single system on a chip (SoC), and often drive a need for virtualization to manage multiple OSs and mixed criticality. As the amount of software and automation in the car grows, meeting functional safety standards and cybersecurity regulations like WP.29 becomes more challenging—and more critical to success.

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Trusted Software, Support and Services for the Whole Vehicle

The broad portfolio of QNX solutions helps automakers and Tier 1s design and develop high-performance, safe, secure, and reliable software for traditional ECUs, as well as next-generation ECUs and domain controllers. QNX software is standards-based and offers common development tools to address the needs of both safety-critical and non-safety ECUs. We have safety certified our foundation products to ISO 26262 ASIL D, and provide solutions for safe communications, safe graphics, safe system libraries and middleware. Our foundational software is backed by decades of trusted professional services—we have never missed an SOP date.

What You Need

ACCELERATE CERTIFICATION
STRENGTHEN CYBERSECURITY
Manage Mixed Criticality
Ensure Reliability
EASILY PORT SOFTWARE

ACCELERATE CERTIFICATION

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.

STRENGTHEN CYBERSECURITY

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.

Manage Mixed Criticality

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.

Ensure Reliability

QNX OS 8.0 and the QNX Hypervisor help automotive OEMs and suppliers develop highly robust systems that are both secure and reliable. The QNX microkernel architecture separates critical OS components into their own protected memory partitions. All OS services run outside of kernel space in a high-availability, fault-tolerant design. In complex systems, the QNX Hypervisor provides the supervision and management capabilities to safely and reliably allow separate functional software areas to share common hardware and resources across multiple guest OSs.

EASILY PORT SOFTWARE

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.

What You Need

ACCELERATE CERTIFICATION

ACCELERATE CERTIFICATION

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.
STRENGTHEN CYBERSECURITY

STRENGTHEN CYBERSECURITY

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.
Manage Mixed Criticality

Manage Mixed Criticality

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.
Ensure Reliability

Ensure Reliability

QNX OS 8.0 and the QNX Hypervisor help automotive OEMs and suppliers develop highly robust systems that are both secure and reliable. The QNX microkernel architecture separates critical OS components into their own protected memory partitions. All OS services run outside of kernel space in a high-availability, fault-tolerant design. In complex systems, the QNX Hypervisor provides the supervision and management capabilities to safely and reliably allow separate functional software areas to share common hardware and resources across multiple guest OSs.
EASILY PORT SOFTWARE

EASILY PORT SOFTWARE

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.