QNX Neutrino RTOS

The QNX Neutrino RTOS is a full-featured and robust OS that scales down to meet the constrained resource requirements of realtime embedded systems. Its true microkernel design and modular architecture enable customers to create highly optimized and reliable systems with low total cost of ownership.

Microkernel
The microkernel approach gives the QNX Neutrino RTOS the reliability to run life- and safety-critical applications in nuclear power plants, hospitals, and even space stations.
Instant Device Activation
Instant Device Activation (IDA) allows in-vehicle systems to perform intelligently even before the OS is operational.
Networking
QNX Neutrino RTOS supports IPv4/IPv6 over Ethernet as well as Wi-Fi 802.11 and provides the standard complement of network services, including DNS, DHCP, inetd, firewall, FTP, TFTP, HTTP, Telnet, PPP, NFS, and NTP. With its support for POSIX APIs, it's a simple task to incorporate other open-source networking components (e.g., Asterisk for VoIP).
Fast boot
The QNX Neutrino RTOS has a very light footprint, which naturally leads to faster boot times. The microkernel can be up and running in as little as 250 milliseconds.
Fault detection
Keeping components isolated through memory protection lets the OS do the hard work of finding stray pointers and crashes, often finding difficult bugs that can elude a system deployed on monolithic operating systems.
High Availability
QNX Neutrino's modular, microkernel architecture enables the isolation of faults right down to the driver level. Together with the high-availability framework's "smart watchdog", this architecture helps your system recover from faults automatically. This approach enables the development of truly self-healing systems.
Adaptive Partitioning
Resource Manager framework
The resource manager framework provides a standard way to integrate new technologies and services through a standard POSIX interface that can be used by all applications.

Parent topic: Platform Layer