QNX Everywhere
About QNX Program
An expansion of the company’s recently launched QNX® Everywhere initiative, which seeks to nurture and grow QNX’s worldwide developer community by providing free access to the QNX® Software Development Platform (SDP) 8.0, empowering students, researchers, and academic institutions to gain hands-on experience with QNX technologies. The program aims to benefit industries like automotive, robotics, medical devices, the partnership aims to rapidly scale the number of India-based software engineers who have the foundational skills needed to excel in the embedded systems industry.
About QNX Technologies
QNX, a division of BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB), enhances the human experience and amplifies technology-driven industries, providing a trusted foundation for software-defined businesses to thrive. The business leads the way in delivering safe and secure operating systems, hypervisors, middleware, solutions, and development tools, along with support and services delivered by trusted embedded software experts. QNX® technology has been deployed in the world’s most critical embedded systems, including more than 255 million vehicles on the road today. QNX® software is trusted across indus tries including automotive, medical devices, industrial controls, robotics, commercial vehicles, rail, and aerospace and defense. Founded in 1980, QNX is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. Learn more at qnx.com.
About Partnership
In collaboration with Pi Square Technologies, QNX is launching The QNX Everywhere Workforce Development Program, Pi Square will partner with Select institutions across India, integrating QNX’s foundational tools and technologies into the respective schools’ engineering curriculums. This will provide students with practical knowledge in embedded systems software development, equipping them with turnkey skills that they can use to solve real industry problems upon graduation. The program aims to benefit industries like automotive, robotics, medical devices, railways, and industrial automation, with plans to implement this initiative in 50 selected institutes across India.
QNX Modules
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QNX OS Architecture
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Compiling and Debugging
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Processes, Threads and Synchronization
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Inter process Communication
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Comparing QNX IPC Methods
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Introduction to Hardware Programming
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Timers, Clocks and Timeouts
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Multicore Processing
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Building a QNX Boot/OS ImageIntroduction to Resource ManagersCourse
Outcome
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This course is designed for anyone who develops QNX® OS applications. By the end of the course, you will have written several example programs and learned to apply QNX OS concepts to real-world applications.
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You will Familiarize yourself with the features, services and architecture of the QNX OS
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Focus on real-world problems and the techniques for solving them
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Get hands-on experience applying the concepts introduced throughout the course
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Prerequisites: You must have a good working knowledge of C and a general knowledge of operating systems. Familiarity with embedded systems or real-time concepts is an
What Universities Get : Offerings
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QNX Programs in Curriculum – Foundation, OS, Device Drivers, Hypervisor across Semesters
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Faculty Development and Certification
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Faculty to Train the Students
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Complete Curriculum and Content Support from Pi Square / QNX
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Software / Tools Support from QNX – Non-Commercial Versions
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Expert Sessions, Assessments, Design Contests / Hackathons etc., will be organized by Pi Square