The tables below will help you find your way around the documentation for the QNX Software Development Platform. Here you'll find a comprehensive library of titles to help you understand the OS and its tools so you can develop and deploy superior realtime embedded systems. If you're new to the QNX Neutrino® OS, you should start with the Quickstart Guide and System Architecture; if you've used an earlier version of QNX SDP, see Migrating to QNX SDP 7.
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Quickstart Guide | A short tutorial that helps you install and configure the QNX Software Development Platform, and then develop a simple application in the IDE and run it on the QNX Neutrino RTOS. |
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Adaptive Partitioning User's Guide | Describes how to use adaptive partitioning to control the allocation of resources among competing processes. |
| Boot Optimization Guide | Describes optimization techniques to minimize the startup time of your system |
| Building Embedded Systems | Tells you how to get the OS running on your target embedded system, write an IPL, customize a startup program, etc. |
| Core Networking Stack User's Guide | Describes how to use io-pkt-* for networking on QNX Neutrino. |
| Customizing a BSP | Provides guidance on modifying a reference board BSP to work with a custom board. |
| Device Publishers Developer's Guide | Provides a reference of all PPS objects written by device publishers and lists the command options you can set for publishers. |
| High Availability Framework Developer's Guide | How to build robust high-availability software running on the QNX Neutrino realtime operating system. |
| Instant Device Activation | How to set up a “minidriver” to start devices quickly when the system boots. |
| Migrating to QNX SDP 7 | Describes how to adapt your programs, buildfiles, and so on if you're moving to QNX SDP 7.0 from an earlier release |
| Persistent Publish/Subscribe Developer's Guide | Describes the QNX Persistent Publish/Subscribe service and its API. |
| QDB Developer's Guide | How to set up, configure, and use the QNX database (QDB). |
| Security Developer's Guide | Describes how to implement and enforce security policies to create and maintain a trusted execution environment. |
| SMMUMAN User's Guide | Describes the QNX System Memory Management Unit Manager (SMMUMAN), a system memory management unit (IOMMU/SMMU) manager that uses the DMA containment and memory-management support available on supported boards. |
| System Analysis Toolkit (SAT) User's Guide | Describes how you can use the instrumented microkernel to perform a detailed analysis of what's happening in an entire QNX Neutrino system. |
| System Architecture | Describes the philosophy and architecture of the microkernel, resource managers, processes, threads, message-passing services, and more. |
| Technotes | Deals with a series of topics, often platform-specific, that aren't covered in the basic docset. |
| User's Guide | Explains how to use the QNX Neutrino runtime environment and perform system-administration tasks. |
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Audio Developer's Guide | Describes the audio drivers and API for developers who wish to write audio applications. |
| Gestures Library Reference | How to determine what sort of gestures someone is using to interact with an application. |
| Image Library Reference | How to write applications that render images using the libimg library. |
| Input Events Library Reference | How to receive and process events from input devices. |
| OpenWF Display Configuration Developer's Guide | Explains how to modify and build the Wfdcfg library for your display hardware. |
| Screen Graphics Subsystem Developer's Guide | Brings together modern graphics, multimedia, and user interface (UI) technologies and provides a platform for applications built with HTML5, Elektrobit GUIDE, Crank Storyboard, Qt and native (e.g., OpenGL ES) code. |
| Video Capture Developer's Guide | Explains how to use the video capture framework to capture frames from a video input source. |
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Networking Middleware Architecture Guide | Explains how the Network Manager, Wi-Fi Manager, and Tether Manager services fit into the QNX SDP 7.0 architecture. |
| Networking Middleware C API Reference | Provides a full reference to the C API of the Network Manager and Wi-Fi Manager services. |
| Networking Middleware Services Reference | Provides command-line references for the Networking Middleware and QNX Neutrino services that support wireless networking. |
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Getting Started with QNX Neutrino | This book, by Rob Krten and updated by QNX Software Systems, will help you design and develop robust realtime systems—from tiny embedded control applications to large network-distributed systems—using the QNX Neutrino RTOS. |
| PCI Server User's Guide | Describes how to use the PCI server to attach and configure PCI devices. |
| Programmer's Guide | Tells you how to get started writing programs, including interrupt handlers, etc. |
| The QNX Neutrino Cookbook: Recipes for Programmers | Provides small, well-defined pieces of code that you can modify and incorporate in your system. |
| Writing a Resource Manager | Explains how to write a resource manager, a process that registers a name in the filesystem name space, which other processes then use to communicate with the resource manager. |
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Addon Interfaces Library Reference | How to create addons that dynamically add functionality to applications. |
| C Library Reference | Describes the QNX Neutrino C library functions, including POSIX threads, kernel calls, resource manager functions, etc. |
| Devctl and Ioctl Commands | Describes the device- and I/O-control commands that you can use with devctl() and ioctl(). |
| JSON Library Reference | Provides a reference of the JSON library API, which lets applications encode and decode JSON data. |
| PAM Reference | Describes the set of configurable and pluggable authentication modules that are included as part of the QNX Neutrino RTOS. |
| Utilities Reference | Describes the QNX Neutrino utilities and manager processes. |
To obtain technical support for any QNX product, visit the Support area on our website (www.qnx.com). You'll find a wide range of support options, including community forums.
For typographical conventions used in our documentation, please see conventions.