Paragon Releases QNZ Driver Embedded For Car Owners

Paragon Software Group announced its QNX Driver Embedded, the software solving compatibility and interoperability issues between QNX-based in-car infotainment systems and storage devices running on other OSs, including Windows and Mac OS X.

It is targeted, foremost, towards middleware developers in the automotive industry who want to make the car owner’s experience as convenient as possible.

It enables the sharing of multimedia data between QNX-based media centers and other digital media players and recorders, as well as with laptops, tablets and desktop computers, regardless of which file system they use – ExFAT, NTFS or HFS+. The technology solves data exchange issues related to use of modern storage devices (for example, SDXC memory cards formatted as ExFAT) and USB external storage (e.g. portable USB HDDs). It is a file system driver integrated into the QNX storage management system with a 10% to 20% better performance than that of the built-in QNX file system drivers (e.g. FAT32), depending on the file system type.

It’s based on the company’s proprietary UFSD cross-platform technology that enables any device to communicate and gain access to storage media regardless of file system type. The company’s tools provide the highest data throughput speeds possible – equivalent to, or exceeding, native performance. The portal hosts a line of tools for users of multiple devices on Android, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux who seek to solve incompatibility issues.

The technology supports:

• QNX 6.5 and QNX 6.5 SP1

• ARM, x86 platforms

• ExFAT, NTFS, HFS+ file systems

• File system check and repair utilities

• Module size: FS driver – 200 KB for ExFAT, 800 KB for combo (NTFS, HFS+, ExFAT)

The technology is available for licensing.