Date: 08/11/2008

QNX Launches new version of Neutrino RTOS

QNX Software Systems has released new version 6.4.0 of the QNX Neutrino RTOS and QNX Momentics Tool Suite. This improved version while targeting growing applications domains offers below listed features
1. Fail-safe file system to protect critical data in the event of a sudden power failure or shutdown
2 Faster networking stack that supports BSD 4.0 TCP/IP
3. Variable page size tuning for faster OS performance
4. Certification to the POSIX PSE52 standard for greater source-code portability
5. 802.11 a/b/g wireless networking
6. Improved ARMv6 memory management and vector floating point math support for ARM11 processors
7. Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support for the Renesas 7786 processor and e500 SMP support for the Freescale MPC8572 processor.

Additionally, QNX Software Systems has entered the QNX Neutrino 6.4.0 microkernel for Common Criteria certification to the Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+).

The QNX Momentics Tools Suite enhancements include high-resolution application profiler, JTAG debugging, GNU 4.2.4 tool-chain, Eclipse platform 3.3, and Eclipse CDT 4.0.x.