Real-Time Operating System for Heavy Machinery

Safety certification to standards such as IEC 61508 is a huge undertaking—and an almost insurmountable challenge with software of unknown provenance (SOUP) such as Linux. A safety-certified OS or hypervisor can significantly reduce the complexity, cost, risk and duration of your 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 machinery used in agriculture, construction, forestry and mining. QNX OS for Safety and QNX Hypervisor for Safety are pre-certified by TÜV Rheinland for use in applications requiring compliance up to ISO 26262 ASIL D and IEC 61508 SIL 3, and help to 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 heavy machinery require a solid foundation. They must boot quickly, run precisely, never crash and ensure that the highest-priority processes run first. BlackBerry QNX operating systems with their microkernel architecture are in hundreds of millions of systems 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 QNX OS 8.0 and QNX OS for Safety, and the QNX Hypervisor and QNX Hypervisor for Safety, which enable you to consolidate diverse operating systems on a single SoC while protecting safety-critical systems.

Economies of scale open to your company when your electronic control unit (ECU) consolidation and software integration effort aligns with industry innovation. SoC vendors contribute a wealth of state-of-the-art development work to support popular boards, embedded solutions and tools. Software solutions widely supported by SoC vendors can unlock a multitude of advanced tools and applications you can leverage.

BlackBerry QNX sets the standard for automotive ECU consolidation and maintains strong relationships with leading board vendors, including Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm. Choosing QNX OS 8.0 or its safety variant, the QNX OS for Safety, as your OS, and BlackBerry QNX as your technology partner can deliver the foundational solutions and expertise you need to get to market faster.

If your organization has many product lines, reusing application and driver code across product lines and or lines of business helps you scale your software development and streamline new product introductions—so you can increase revenue and market share.

When you use QNX OS 8.0, you offload OS maintenance to BlackBerry QNX while building a standard set of drivers and applications that you can reuse or adapt throughout your organization, saving time and valuable resources. Plus, with POSIX compliance and familiar development tools, switching to BlackBerry QNX is easy. The result can be an efficient and more scalable engineering operation.