The QNX Platform for ADAS is middleware that provides a platform for you to build ADAS applications. This release provides a broad scope to support multiple sensors and camera platforms (e.g., CSI2 cameras, ONVIF cameras, lidar) and multiple automotive platforms (e.g., Renesas H3 Starter Premier Kit, Intel Car Creek Module).
The middleware provides multiple components to ease the application development process to use various sensors and cameras.
Figure 1. Architectural overview.
- Reference Applications: These are sample applications that you can run on the reference images. We provide the binaries for these sample applications on the proviced reference images. We also provide the sample code for most of the applications, which you use as an example, build, and deploy on your target. For more information, see Applications for the QNX Platform for ADAS.
- Sensor Framework: QNX-provided middleware that provides camera and sensor drivers, sensor data management, libraries (accessible via public APIs), and a Sensor service. For more information, see Sensor Framework.
- Networking: Included with the QNX Platform for ADAS product are networking capabilities that allow you to use FastRTPS, SOME/IP, and DDS. These networking components are useful for communicating with other modules connected via a network connection (e.g., Ethernet).
- Open source modules: Included with the QNX Platform for ADAS are various open source components that are used by our product and examples. Open source modules provide libraries and frameworks to help make it easier to develop ADAS applications.
- Third-party software development kits (SDKs): Included with the QNX Platform for ADAS are third-party codecs and SDKs to interface to accelerators. Depending on the hardware platform you want to use, you may need to contact the hardware vendor to get the codecs or SDKs.
- The Software Development Platform 7.0: This block represents the underlying QNX Neutrino RTOS,
microkernel, libraries, utilities, graphics, and tools that are used with QNX Platform for ADAS.
If your intent is to build a certified (e.g., to ISO 26262) product or equipment, be aware that the QNX Platform for ADAS and QNX Software Development Platform 7.0 haven't been certified, but have been developed in accordance with a certified quality management system (QM). The QNX Platform for ADAS is compatible with the QNX OS for Safety 2.0 product, which is certified to ASIL D according to ISO 26262. To assist you with getting certification for your product or equipment, consider using the QNX OS for Safety 2.0 with the QNX Platform for ADAS. For more information about developing a certified product, see the documentation for the QNX OS for Safety 2.0 on the QNX website. To see the documentation, you must have purchased the product.
- Board Support Packages for Automotive Platforms: The board support packages (BSP) that you use for your target board. There are packages provided by QNX Software Systems that you can adapt to meet your needs and customize as required. These BSPs are required to rebuild reference images for your targets.
- Ecosystem: In the reference images and some of the reference applications, the QNX Platform for ADAS uses components and software from various partners that are part of the ecosystem for this product. This includes RTI DDS Connext (Pro), Matlab integration, and vision algorithms.
For more information about the features supported on the target boards, see the “Feature availability by hardware platform” section of the About the QNX Platform for ADAS chapter in the Getting Started Overview guide for this product.
Typically, when you build an ADAS system, you can build an application that provides vision and sensor capabilities for your system. Applications that process this type of data relies on hardware platforms that are both performant and capable of interfacing with sensor and vision hardware (i.e., be connected to cameras and sensors, such as radar, lidar, GPS).