The Sensor Framework reference images can help you
quickly evaluate features or provide a starting point for developing your embedded systems
and experimenting with various features.
The provided reference images contain a subset of the supported features based on the
specific hardware platform (see
Feature availability by hardware platform).
You can download the reference image you want from the
QNX Software Center.
Note: These reference images are large,
so ensure you have sufficient disk space on your host system before you
install an image from the QNX Software Center.
After you download the reference image, you can follow
the Getting Started guide for that platform to get the image running on
your target board.
Sometimes, the reference image doesn't run a feature by default. In these cases,
you'll simply augment the image to run that feature. In other cases, you may need to
import a library, do some additional development, and then build a new image.
For information about building your own image, see the
Building Embedded Systems guide.
To decide which reference image is the best to use as a starting point
for your development, we recommend that you review the following sections:
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Reference images available, which summarizes
the available reference images for this release. The development hardware
platform you choose should be as close to a match as possible in terms of
hardware specifications (processor architecture, vendor, GPU, etc.)
with your production hardware platform.
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Feature availability by hardware platform, which summarizes
the features available to each hardware platform. If it's not noted here,
a given feature is supported on all hardware platforms in this release.
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Reference image sensor support, which summarizes the
various cameras, lidar, radar, GPS, and IMU systems that are supported on each
reference image. Depending on the connectors available for its
hardware platform, a board might not support all cameras or sensors.
In some cases, an adapter (e.g., Serial-to-USB) is required.
Sensor and camera support should match what you plan to use in production.
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Reference image vision-processing support, which summarizes the
vision-processing software that is integrated with the reference images. Unless
noted otherwise, this vision-processing software and the algorithms it provides
are supported on all hardware platforms in this release.