QNX® Cabin is a hardware-portable, pre-integrated digital cockpit software reference implementation that provides a development framework for designing digital cockpit systems. By increasing software portability and supporting cloud-first development, QNX Cabin helps reduce development costs and accelerates time-to-market.
Building the Total In-Cabin Experience
OEMs must deliver seamless, connected in-cabin experiences that meet growing customer expectations. QNX Cabin delivers a pre-integrated software solution that simplifies the development of digital cockpit features such as instrument clusters, audio, and driver information displays, ensuring a smooth, cohesive end-user experience while reducing development complexity and time-to-market.
A Safe and Secure Foundation to Accelerate Digital Cockpit Development
While OEMs aim to take greater control of their vehicle software, they recognize the need for experienced allied software providers to deliver proven, safety-certified software for non-differentiating components. QNX Cabin is built on ISO 26262 ASIL D-certified software ensuring safety, security, and reliability in mixed-criticality systems. This allows OEMs to concentrate on delivering consumer-facing features that define their brand and enhance the driving experience.
Virtualizing the Digital Cockpit to Reduce Complexity
QNX Cabin addresses the challenge of developing in mixed-criticality environments by enabling mission-critical features to run on the certified QNX Safe Host, while allowing less critical features to operate on guest OSs like Android Automotive and Linux. QNX Cabin utilizes the industry standard VirtIO abstraction layer to allow data to flow to and from the guest OS seamlessly, decoupling from the hardware. The solution allows OEMs to take control of their own software and have flexibility in their choice of hardware, enabling them to focus on delivering continuous innovations rather than struggling with software integration and developing hardware-specific interfaces.
Comprehensive Tools for Building Digital Cockpits
QNX Cabin is built on trusted foundational software from QNX, along with reference configurations based on decades of experience and knowledge. It is a pre-integrated digital cockpit software reference offering a development framework that effortlessly transitions between cloud-based and SoC-based environments. It enables hardware-portable design and development of digital cockpits in the cloud, allowing for easy portability between SoC targets, collaboration across geographical regions, and scalability using cloud resources. With QNX Cabin, OEMs can easily create tailored customer experiences including immersive soundscapes with the power of QNX Sound, or collect and unify sensor data using hardware-portable Signal Services to enable advanced features like in-cabin sensing and vehicle diagnostics.
Empowering Automotive Development Teams to Innovate
QNX Cabin offers a cloud-first approach that decouples software under development from the target hardware. This means dispersed development teams can collaborate on projects using cloud instances of the QNX Cabin software stack that offer binary parity, which provides confidence that the code will work as intended on the target SoC. QNX Cabin empowers developers to seamlessly integrate Linux and Android Automotive operating systems alongside safety-centric QNX-driven applications. The solution’s pre-integration and effortless transition between cloud-based and SoC-based targets mean development teams can create innovative differentiating features rather than spending their time integrating the many complex digital cockpit components.
Delivering Differentiated Customer Experiences
The ultimate in-cabin experience seamlessly integrates advanced digital displays that boot seamlessly and without delay, personalized controls, and immersive audio and visual experiences, creating an intuitive and connected environment for drivers and passengers. QNX Cabin enables OEMs to efficiently deliver enhanced real-time information, entertainment, safety, and comfort features based on familiar operating systems, including Android, from a unified platform that uses the industry-standard VirtIO interface to ensure smooth performance and reliability across diverse virtualized hardware. The solution enables faster time-to-market for differentiating experiences, allowing OEMs to set themselves apart.
