Become a QNX CAR partner

As a recognized leader in the automotive market, QNX helps partners by immediately extending their reach and increasing their market potential. Indeed, QNX CAR is a unique way of putting QNX and partner technology in the hands of all leading automotive tier ones and OEMs around the world.

Software partners

Ensure your products receive maximum exposure from the very beginning of the prototyping phase right through to production by participating in the QNX CAR program.

As a software partner participant, you will be required to provide an up-to-date port of your technology and to work with the QNX team to integrate your technology into the QNX CAR environment. You will also need to allow QNX Software Systems to provide your technology to customers for evaluation and prototyping purposes.

Hardware partners

Get your latest hardware into the hands of developers by participating in the QNX CAR program. As a hardware partner participant, you will be invited to develop board support packages and sponsor the program by providing hardware.

Works with QNX CAR Program

Increasingly Tier one suppliers to the automotive market are faced with increasing demands from OEMs along side shrinking engineering teams. They look to us, their suppliers, to work with them to reduce their development burden and accelerate their time to market.

Value Proposition

QNX CAR brings together automotive Tier ones, OEMs and third parties together in reference implementations that can be quickly leveraged by the automotive industry to evaluate and prototype infotainment systems and digital instrument clusters.

QNX CAR Environment

By participating in QNX CAR, QNX partners get their technology in the hands of the Tier ones and OEMs. Works with QNX CAR certification ensures that your technology will shine in the QNX environment.

How to participate

Port your product — To participate in QNX CAR, ecosystem members must first complete a port of their product to QNX. Free access to QNX Momentics and online support via the forums on Foundry27 are available to help you get started today.

Integrate your product — The power of QNX CAR lies in its pre-integration of technologies. Once you have completed your port the next step is to integrate your product into the QNX CAR environment. Depending on the nature of your product, this may require development of an Adobe Flash HMI component.

Promote your product — You can immediately begin to promote your integration to QNX customers by providing an evaluation version of your technology on the QNX Bazaar.

Include your product in QNX CAR — QNX regularly delivers milestone builds of QNX CAR to all Tier one and OEM participants in QNX CAR. Once your integration into QNX CAR is complete it can qualify for inclusion in the milestone builds.

Sales and Marketing Opportunities

Partners who have qualified for Works with QNX CAR can benefit from a number of sales and marketing initiatives including:

• Puts your technology in the hands of all QNX CAR automotive Tier one and OEM members
• Joint sales engagements
• Web promotion
• Tradeshows
• Seminars
• Collateral

For more information on how to join the QNX CAR program, contact us.