The Source Newsletter - February 2013

Want to develop apps for automobiles? If so, check out this video on the HTML5 SDK for the QNX CAR™ application platform. Slated for rollout later this year, the SDK offers a rich framework for app developers, including an extended version of the (very cool) BlackBerry® Ripple emulator. Read the press release

BSQUARE, a global leader in embedded solutions, has become an authorized distributor of QNX® products in the UK. The new agreement complements the QNX engineering work that BSQUARE already provides to medical, industrial, and general embedded customers worldwide. Read the press release

• Making the growing number of connected cars continuously better
• Making your car a first-class citizen of the Web
• An (info)graphic look at self-driving cars
• Designing interfaces from the outside in
• All roads lead to QNX at embedded world 2013
• 10 qualities of highly effective hands-free systems
• 10 truths about building safe embedded systems
• Acontis releases new EtherCAT motion library for QNX Neutrino OS
• Using dynamic code analysis to support FDA approval

Always remember the big picture: A look at why focusing on a specific safety issue may yield little or no benefit — or even introduce new problems. More

Missed the latest QNX webinar? No worries. You can now download PLCs Made Easy, Open Standards versus Open Source, Traceability in Software Development, and many others More

• Freescale MPC8308-RDB
• Freescale P3041DS

• QNX Demos New Industrial Reference Platforms for Faster Application Development at Embedded World 2013
• Automotive Industry Launches W3C Group for Bringing Web to Cars

This week, QNX Software Systems is exhibiting at embedded world, in booth 5-333, where it is showcasing PLC reference designs, the QNX CAR™ platform, and a new multimedia and communications demo. QNX experts will deliver four papers at the event: two on safe software design, and one each on M2M and realtime development.

And in March, members of the QNX automotive team will participate in a panel hosted by the Motor Press Guild and in a panel at Automotive Megatrends USA 2013. In both cases, the focus is on apps and the car.