It has been developed to provide a starting point for industrial designs.
“QNX is ideal for safety-critical projects and is also available in safety-certified versions, making it a perfect match for the high-quality Ka-Ro modules in demanding industrial applications,” said Direct Insight MD David Pashley. “Using an off-the-shelf module to which QNX is already ported, and which is tried and tested with the operating system, makes it easier to use a high-performance 64-bit Arm processor.”
Quad-core Arm Cortex-A53s clocked at 1.6GHz are used alongside graphics processing on the modules, which have up to 2Gbyte of DDR3L RAM and a 4Gbyte eMMC.
“Ka-Ro modules are extremely reliable with a typical operational life of over 12 years,” according to Direct Insight.
The BSP contains basic features required to run the QNX 7 operating system on the boards – included are drivers for Ethernet, watchdog timer, I2C, SPI, USB, SD Card and UART, and there is an optional display driver.
To demonstrate it working there is a free binary download (requires contact details), then source code can be licensed per-project. Enhancements including additional drivers, production-hardening and testing are also available.
‘Triton-TX8M development kit’ is available with a 10inch touch screen.
The QNX 7 BSP is available through this web page