• Spatial isolation of OS from drivers and applicaions
• Fine grained fault isolation and recovery
• Message passing design for modular, well formed systems
• Comprehensive multi-core support
• Asymmetric(AMP), symmetric (SMP) and bound multiprocessing (BMP)
• Guard pages at the end of each virtual stack to protect against stack overflow

POSIX Compliance

• Validation using PSE 54 test suite
• Supports a broad range of POSIX API specifications

Deterministic Performance

• Pre-emptive scheduler with choice of schduling methods
• Destributed priority inheritance

Adaptive Partitioning

• Redistribute unused cycles to optimize CPU loading
• Guarantee CPU cycles to critical processes without compromising system performance

High Availability

• Heartbeat for early fault detection
• High availability manager (HAM) to restart failed or unresponsive processes and services
• Intelligent restart and transparent reconnection

Protected Direct Memory Access (DMA)

• IOMMU/SMMU Manager leverages x86 VT-d or Arm SMMU derivatives to protect against unauthorized DMA
• Configurable boundaries for access to bus devices
• Boundary oblation monitoring and management

Processor Support

• 64-bit support for the latest ARMv8 and x86-64 SoCs
• Continued 32-bit support for ARMv7 SoCs

• WiFi 802.11 a/bigin
• Full IPv4 and IP56 stack
• USB 3.x, host, device and on-the-go (OTG)
• PCIe
• Integrations with eAVB, TSN, SOME/IP, RTPS, DBUS, DDS
• Support for network applications, including NFS, SSH, DHCP and DNS

Layered Security

• Granular control of system privilege levels
• Self-verifying filesystems with AES 256 encryption
• Secure system activity logging
• Heap, stack and memory protection
• Rootless execution
• Secure boot implementing TPM and TrustZone

File Systems

• Image file system (IFS), RAM, Flash, QNX6 Power-Safe, ON% Trusted Disk, Compressed
• UDF, NVMe, HFS+, Linux, DOS, CD-ROM, CIFS, NFS and NTFS

Graphics and HMI Technologies

• Screen composition manager supporting multiple graphics technologies
• Single, unified interface from multiple UI sources
• Leverages GPU acceleration and supports multi-touch input and video capture

Instrumented Microkernel

• System-wide performance analysis and optimization
• Rapid detection of timing conflicts, hidden faults, etc.

Support and Documentation

• Architecture overviews
• Programming and configuration guides
• Complete API references
• Board Support Packages