Peripherals

Given a choice, you should use peripherals that are listed as supported by Neutrino. This includes such items as disk controllers, network cards, PC-Card controllers, flash memory chips, and graphics controllers. For lists of supported hardware, see the Community area of our website, http:www.qnx.com; for information about third-party products, see the Download area.

Graphics controllers are one of the particularly delicate areas in the design of an embedded system, often because a chip may be very new when it's selected and we may not yet have a driver for it. Also, if you're using a graphics controller in conjunction with an LCD panel, beware that this is perhaps the most complicated setup because of the many registers that must be programmed to make it work.

Note that QNX Software Systems can do custom development work for you; for more information, contact your sales representative. Other consulting houses offer similar services to the QNX community.