QNX reference designs provide out-of-the-box connected applications that significantly reduce the engineering effort normally required to prototype and productize new systems. QNX demos showcase QNX technologies with easy to evaluate board images.

           

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• Foundry27 Reference Designs and Demos Project

Smart energy in-home display

The smart energy reference design for in-home displays is for managing next-generation security, monitoring, and automation applications. Based on a rich, Adobe Flash user interface, it illustrates how you can build applications for energy efficiency and security that can be managed through an elegant and easy-to-use HMI. It also shows how to interface with home area networks (HAN), Zigbee sensors, streaming IP video cameras, and how to integrate all this technology with Internet connectivity into a comprehensive and efficient system.

The smart energy reference design combines the QNX Neutrino RTOS with the QNX Aviage HMI Suite. It is available on the following platforms:

• Atmel G45 (ARM9)
• Freescale i.MX25 (ARM9)
• Freescale i.MX35 (ARM9)
• Freescale i.MX51 (Cortex A8) with mouse
• Freescale i.MX51 (Cortex A8) with Lilliput 8" touch screen
• TI BeagleBoard (OMAP 3530) with mouse
• TI BeagleBoard (OMAP 3530) with Lilliput 8" touch screen
• VMware (QNX Neutrino RTOS within Windows VMware session)

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See the QNX smart energy reference design live and in person.

• Atmel Smart energy reference design video
• Freescale Smart energy reference design video
• Texas Instruments Smart energy reference design video

Fastboot building automation reference design

The building automation reference design is for fully distributed enterprise systems controlling building heating/cooling systems or security cameras. Using an Adobe Flash user interface, it illustrates how to build applications that use Flash HMIs yet take advantage of low-level system sensors and controls. It is designed to operate with multiple nodes throughout the building or plant, and demonstrates how to design such distributed systems for failsafe reliability.

The building automation reference design combines the QNX Neutrino RTOS with the QNX Aviage HMI Suite. On some platforms it demonstrates QNX fast boot technology, bringing up a full HMI within seconds after reset. It is available on the following platforms:

• Kontron nanoETXpress (BIOS boot and Fastboot variants)
• Advantech SOM-6760 (Fastboot variant only)

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Video

See the QNX building automation reference design live and in person.

• QNX building automation reference design video

Digital instrument cluster reference design

The digital instrument cluster reference design shows developers how to create a graphical interface that merges images from Adobe Flash and OpenGL ES. This reference design also demonstrates how to connect to underlying real-time hardware components, making the basic design useful for automotive or any other embedded market that need to display gauges or use multiple components.

The digital instrument cluster reference design combines the QNX Neutrino RTOS with the QNX Aviage HMI Suite. It is available on the following platforms:

• TI BeagleBoard (OMAP 3530)

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QNX Neutrino RTOS target

QNX Software Systems provides two ways for developers to evaluate the QNX Neutrino RTOS as a target platform within a VMware session.(VMware lets developers test software without using a dedicated PC as a target.)

• VMware options