Before You Begin

QNX Board Support Packages8.0BSP User's GuideNXP S32G399 RDB3NXPNXPARM

Before you begin working with this BSP, you should become familiar with the resources available to you.

Essential information

Before you install your BSP, review the following documentation:

  • Information about your board's hardware and firmware provided by the vendor of the board.The Documentation for the S32G-VNP-RDB3 can be found on the NXP website at S32G399A Vehicle Networking Reference Design (S32G-VNP-RDB3)
  • Building Embedded Systems, which contains general information about working with BSPs from QNX Software Systems that's common to all BSPs and is available from the QNX Software Development Platform 8.0 documentation

Required software

To work with the BSP for the NXP S32G-VNP-RDB3 board, you require the following:

  • BSP ZIP file for the board.
  • QNX Software Development Platform 8.0 installed on a Linux or Windows host system.
  • Virtual COM Port (VCP) Driver. This driver must be installed on your host system that connects to the board. To get the driver and read more information about it, see the Future Technology Devices International Ltd. (FTDI) website at http://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm.
  • A terminal emulation program (Qtalk, Hyperterminal, PuTTy, etc.) to connect to the board for debugging. Alternatively, you can use a ssh session from the QNX Momentics IDE.
  • To boot QNX OS on a S32G-VNP-RDB3 board , you require the fip.s32-sdcard and s32g399a-rdb3.dtb binary from NXP_SW32G3-LINUX-EAR Linux EAR V38.0. To get these binaries, create an account with NXP, contact NXP to obtain the appropriate access, and then go to: https://www.nxp.com/products/S32G3
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