07 November 2008

QNX 6.4.0 Neutrino RTOS & Momentics Tool Suite Arrives

QNX Software Systems, a member of the ARM Connected Community, has confirmed the commercial availability of release 6.4.0, the latest version of the QNX Neutrino RTOS and QNX Momentics Tool Suite.

Release 6.4.0 is the first major QNX product to be developed "live" on Foundry27, the development portal where customers and other QNX community members can access new software features and patches in real time, download OS source code, and participate in the development of QNX products.

"A year ago, QNX launched its hybrid software model, an innovative approach that allows commercial software to be developed out in the open, so that customers can participate in the development process - much as they would in an open source project," said Kerry Johnson, director of product management, QNX Software Systems. "The success of Foundry27 is proof that customers, technology partners, hobbyists, and educational organizations worldwide have embraced the model, and release 6.4.0, with its many new customer-driven features, is a testament to the model's success."

Release 6.4.0 introduces several technologies to maximize the performance, reliability, and portability of embedded systems for the automotive, industrial control, networking, military, and medical industries, the company said.

With release 6.4.0, the QNX Neutrino RTOS now offers improved ARMv6 memory management and vector floating point math support for ARM11 processors

In addition it provides a fail-safe file system to protect critical data in the event of a sudden power failure or shutdown, a faster networking stack that supports BSD 4.0 TCP/IP, variable page size tuning for faster OS performance, certification to the POSIX PSE52 standard for greater source-code portability, 802.11 a/b/g wireless networking, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support for the Renesas 7786 processor and e500 SMP support for the Freescale MPC8572 processor.