QNX Software Systems Limited has unveiled the latest generation of its QNX Neutrino operating system. Designed to bring mobile-class user experiences to secure embedded systems, the QNX OS 6.6 offers a wealth of new graphics, UI, multimedia, security, and power management capabilities, enabling developers to create highly differentiated products for markets such as healthcare, heavy machinery, consumer white goods, energy production, industrial automation, automotive telematics, and marine and in-flight entertainment.
“Smartphones and tablets have transformed user expectations. Everyone today assumes that a display will let them swipe, scroll, or pinch, even if that display is on a gas pump, vending machine, refrigerator, or medical device,” said Grant Courville, Director of Product Management, QNX Software Systems. “These expectations put enormous pressure on embedded system manufacturers to deliver a mobile-class user experience, and the QNX OS 6.6 enables them to create products that are feature-rich yet easy to use, and connected and secure.”
Virtually every embedded system today is connected to a network, creating the potential for attack. To help thwart malicious software, the QNX OS 6.6 introduces several advanced security features, including fine-grained control of system privilege levels, application lifecycle management, enhanced heap, stack, and memory layout protection and file system enhancements.
For the ultimate in UI design flexibility, the QNX OS includes a new graphical composition manager that can seamlessly blend apps and components created in HTML5, OpenGL ES, and Qt 5, together with video from connected devices – all on the same display, at the same time. The composition manager supports native OpenGL ES hardware acceleration, multi-touch input control with gestures, and a driver framework based on industry-standard OpenWF Display APIs.
General availability of the QNX OS 6.6 and the QNX SDK for Apps and Media is scheduled for February 28, 2014.
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