With the increasing popularity of the QNX® Neutrino® real-time operating system (RTOS), Advantech has announced a new collaboration with QNX Software Systems with the goal of providing customers the most innovative, up-to-date technological support on the embedded market today.

Early this year, Advantech began its promising partnership with QNX, a leading provider of RTOS software, development tools, middleware and services in support of embedded computer designs. In the early 1980’s when the company was first established, QNX’s main markets included telecom, industrial automation and medical instrumentation; the company has since won over other markets as well, including the automobile industry and consumer products.

“We believe the time has come to narrow the divide between the open source and proprietary software development models,” said Dave Curley, vice president of marketing at QNX Software Systems. “Working with excellent partners like Advantech in a more streamlined and open fashion will create immediate customer benefits through improved time-to-market, better technical insight and depth, and tighter hardware/software integration.”

“We plan to work with QNX to develop BSPs (board support packages) for ETX, COM-Express and a wide range of SBC system boards. What that will do is allow customers who are interested in QNX to use boards that have been certified by Advantech,” says David DeMint, Advantech project manager. “Customers who want to use QNX will have a number of certified Advantech SBCs to choose from.”

Partnered with QNX, Advantech will play a key role in the future of the embedded computing market. With the prospect of delivering certified system boards in the near future, Advantech will soon be offering fast and easy integration solutions for QNX customers.

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About QNX Neutrino RTOS

Unlike conventional operating systems, the QNX Neutrino RTOS employs a fault-resistant micro-kernel architecture in which the device drivers, networking stacks, file systems and applications all run as independent, memory-protected processes. This highly modular architecture allows developers to create regenerative systems that are designed to recover intelligently from software faults automatically. The result is a tough, resilient system that can dynamically support a wide range new applications and services.

Courtesy of  Advantech