WATERLOO, ON, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackBerry
Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced the release of QNX®
Hypervisor 2.2, the latest edition of the company's real-time
embedded hypervisor product.
With QNX Hypervisor 2.2, manufacturers and other embedded system
suppliers are empowered with ultimate design flexibility and
scalability to consolidate multiple systems with mixed criticality
and different operating environments onto a single hardware
platform, reducing both the initial development and long-term costs
of ownership for a wide variety of embedded systems – from rail and
robotics controllers to vehicle digital cockpits and battery
management ECUs.
Based on the QNX® Neutrino® Real-time Operating System (RTOS)
7.1, QNX Hypervisor 2.2 supports the latest silicon
enhancements for interrupt control, scalable vector extensions
(SVE), cryptography and enhanced security, and offers features such
as fast booting of critical system services before guest launch and
priority-based sharing of hardware resources and devices. QNX
Hypervisor 2.2 also adds to the extensive VIRTIO shared device
support offered by previous QNX Hypervisor releases, including
adding sources of entropy.
QNX Hypervisor 2.2 provides development teams with a robust and
reliable hypervisor domain on which they can run Android and Linux
distributions. QNX Hypervisor 2.2 can be scaled so that system
architects can choose to run software in a virtual machine or
alongside the virtual machine in the host domain. This
flexibility allows developers to add Android and Linux to an SoC
without compromising on features and performance while at the same
time reducing system complexity. Mission-critical applications can
share host domain services (backends) with Android based on
priority scheduling and therefore precisely control the guest's
behavior. As with all BlackBerry QNX Hypervisor product
releases, system architects also have full control over separation
and isolation of guests and devices as well as deep insight into
Hypervisor operations through the QNX® Momentics Tool
Suite.
"BlackBerry QNX has decades of experience powering
mission-critical embedded systems across a wide range of
industries. With the release of QNX Hypervisor 2.2, embedded
software architects and developers can continue to rely on our
secure and reliable foundational hypervisor software to enable
their system consolidation knowing that we continue to work in
lock-step with advances in silicon and shared device standards such
as VIRTIO," said Grant Courville,
Vice President, Products and Strategy at BlackBerry QNX.
BlackBerry QNX has a broad portfolio of embedded system software
designed for mission-critical implementations, including the QNX
Hypervisor, QNX Neutrino Real-time Operating System, in addition to
middleware and development tools. Safety-certified variants of the
hypervisor – QNX® Hypervisor for Safety and the OS – QNX® OS for
Safety, are also available. BlackBerry's pedigree in safety,
security, and continued innovation has led to its QNX technology
being used in hundreds of millions of critical systems for medical
devices, industrial controls, automotive, commercial trucking, rail
and robotics systems worldwide.
For more information on BlackBerry QNX products and engineering
services for embedded systems, please visit BlackBerry.QNX.com.
About BlackBerry
BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB)
provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises
and governments around the world. The company secures more
than 500M endpoints including over
175M cars on the road today. Based in
Waterloo, Ontario, the company
leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions
in the areas of cybersecurity, safety and data privacy solutions,
and is a leader in the areas of endpoint security management,
encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry's vision is
clear - to secure a connected future you can trust.
BlackBerry. Intelligent Security. Everywhere.
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