Virtual Targets on QNX

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Accelerate Development Without Hardware

Modern embedded systems, especially in areas like the digital cockpit, are incredibly complex, often mixing safety-critical functions with infotainment guest operating systems. Traditionally, development has been tied to the availability of final production hardware, creating bottlenecks and delaying time-to-market.

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Cloud-First Virtual Targets

With QNX® Cabin, you can decouple your software development from specific hardware using a cloud-first approach. QNX Cabin for Cloud provides a virtual development environment that allows your teams to design, build, and test digital cockpit features long before the final System-on-a-Chip (SoC) has been chosen. These cloud-based targets offer binary parity with the final native target, giving you the confidence that code developed in the cloud will work as intended on the physical hardware.

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The Power of Virtualization

This "shift-left" development is powered by the QNX® Hypervisor. As a microkernel-based solution, it allows you to consolidate multiple operating systems, like Android Automotive, Linux, and the QNX OS—safely on a single SoC. It uses the industry-standard VirtIO abstraction layer, which decouples guest operating systems from the underlying hardware. This not only streamlines development but also reduces the impact of future OS or hardware updates.