Understanding Reference Images
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.
Feature availability by hardware platform). You can download the reference image you want 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.
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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. -
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. -
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. -
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.