QNX Everywhere

About QNX Everywhere

The QNX Everywhere Workforce Development Program is an extension of BlackBerry’s QNX® Everywhere initiative, designed to nurture and grow a global developer community. This program provides free access to the QNX® Software Development Platform (SDP) 8.0, enabling students, researchers, and academic institutions to gain hands-on experience with industry-grade embedded systems technologies.

With a focus on building a skilled workforce in high-demand sectors like automotive, robotics, medical devices, railways, and industrial automation, the program aims to rapidly increase the number of India-based software engineers with foundational and practical expertise in embedded systems.

Holistic Approach

About QNX

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 industries including automotive, medical devices, industrial controls, robotics, commercial vehicles, rail, and aerospace and defence. Founded in 1980, QNX is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. Learn more at qnx.com

About Partnership

In partnership with Pi Square Technologies, QNX is launching the QNX Everywhere Workforce Development Program across select academic institutions in India. Through this collaboration, QNX’s powerful development tools and technologies will be integrated directly into engineering curricula, offering students early exposure to real-world embedded systems.

This initiative provides students with practical skills and turnkey knowledge required to contribute meaningfully to embedded software development across major industries. The program is set to be rolled out in 50 premier institutes across India, with the goal of building a future-ready, industry-aligned engineering workforce.

QNX Modules

QNX OS Architecture
Compiling and Debugging
Processes, Threads and Synchronization
Inter process Communication
Comparing QNX IPC Methods
Introduction to Hardware Programming
Timers, Clocks and Timeouts
Multicore Processing
Building a QNX Boot/OS Image Introduction to Resource ManagersCourse

Outcome

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.
You will Familiarize yourself with the features, services and architecture of the QNX OS
Focus on real-world problems and the techniques for solving them
Get hands-on experience applying the concepts introduced throughout the course
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

QNX Programs in Curriculum – Foundation, OS, Device Drivers, Hypervisor across Semesters
Faculty Development and CertificationFaculty to Train the Student
Complete Curriculum and Content Support from Pi Square / QNX
Software / Tools Support from QNX – Non-Commercial Versions
Expert Sessions, Assessments, Design Contests / Hackathons etc., will be organized by Pi Square