QNX Neutrino Realtime Operating System
Since 1980, manufacturers have relied on QNX OS technology to power their mission-critical applications ? everything from medical instruments and Internet routers to telematics devices, 9-1-1 call centers, process control applications, and air traffic control systems. Small or large, simple or distributed, these systems share an unmatched reputation for operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, nonstop. Time-tested and field-proven, the QNX? Neutrino? realtime operating system (RTOS) sets the industry standard for reliability, fault tolerance, and scalability.
What makes QNX Neutrino so remarkable? It's a true microkernel operating system. Under QNX Neutrino, every driver, application, protocol stack, and file system runs outside the kernel, in the safety of memory-protected user space. As a result, virtually any component can fail ? and be automatically restarted ? without affecting other components or the kernel. No other commercial RTOS provides such protection.
Features and Benefits
Using QNX Neutrino as your foundation, you can:
design highly reliable systems that can be dynamically upgraded in the field to extend life-cycle and functionality
build self-healing systems that can recover intelligently from faults and increase service availability
scale large or small using only the components you need, or, take advantage of built-in symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) to harness the power of dual-core processors
simplify the design of fault-tolerant clusters and add compute power simply by plugging another CPU into the network, with transparent distributed processing
optimize performance through fast and predictable realtime response
maximize application portability with extensive support for the POSIX standard, which lets you quickly migrate Linux, Unix, and other open source programs
enhance your system with a sophisticated graphical user interface that supports advanced web browsing, multi-layering, and 3D
make the most of your processor's physical addressing capabilities through extended memory support that goes beyond 4G. Available for PowerPC, MIPS, and x86
target the best hardware platform for your system and get up and running quickly with runtime support and BSPs for popular chipsets, including MIPS, PowerPC, SH-4, ARM, StrongArm, Intel? XScale? Microarchitecture, and x86