QNX OS – Product and Services
As well as being the official UK distributor for the general embedded market, we provide a complete range of solutions and services for customers. QNX is a leading real-time operating system for mission-critical, real-time, or safety certified embedded systems.
Direct Insight is a leading provider of BSPs (Board Support Packages) and complementary products and services for QNX.
QNX products are designed for embedded systems running on 64-bit ARM or x86 platforms. The latest version of QNX – QNX SDP 8.0 has been rearchitected to work seamlessly and scalably with both homogeneous and heterogeneous multicore processors. The QNX Software Development Platform has been qualified to various safety and security standards for use in products with high criticality and low tolerance for failure and is widely used in automotive, medical, transportation, pro-audio, military and industrial embedded systems. These standards include IEC 61508 SIL 3, ISO 26262 ASIL D and IEC 62304 Class C.
Constantly updated according to a predetermined lifecycle, QNX SDP 8.0 provides a secure solution which provides out-of-the-box conformity to the requirements of the EU Cyber Resilience Act. Vulnerabilities are documented throughout the life cycle. Secure boot as well as encrypted storage and transport are supported, along with OTA updating. The SBOM is tightly managed to ensure resilience.
In support of those migrating from Linux, the API is fully Posix-compliant (in other words, the same!). A wide range of open-source utilities are supported alongside GCC tools.
QNX SDP 8.0 offers hard real-time with minimal jitter and latency. The small-footprint microkernel architecture separates drivers from the kernel, so that in the event of a driver failure, kernel operation continues and the driver can be restarted or other action taken.
