WATERLOO, ONT. and BRISTOL, UK. BlackBerry and WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems (WHIS) have integrated the QNX Neutrino RTOS, SAFERTOS, and QNX Momentics Tool Suite into a software development platform for heterogeneous SoCs. The development suite enables safety-certified and mixed-criticality applications that require both MCU and MPU processing cores using secure inter-process communications between the software components.

Both operating systems in the BlackBerry/WHIS solution are certified to ISO26262 ASIL D for Automotive Applications and IEC 61508 SIL 3 levels for Industrial Automation, helping minimize certification costs.

Extensions to the QNX Momentics Tool Suite offer development and debugging features for both QNX Neutrino and SAFERTOS. This enables:

• Concurrent debug of multiple C/C++ applications across heterogeneous ARM cores

• Multi-threaded application debug with independent tracking for each thread and trace control from thread to thread

• Debug of multiple processes distributed across multiple CPUs or cores, and execution path tracing from CPU to CPU

• Dynamic attachment of debugger to any running process

The development environment is based on Eclipse and GCC. It enforces a multi-level, policy-driven security model.

Evaluation software is available under license by contacting BlackBerry QNX or WHIS.