The Qualcomm Dragonwing Technical Guide is an engineering reference developed by RidgeRun for bringing up, validating, and optimizing software on the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-9075. It provides procedures tested by RidgeRun engineers for Qualcomm Linux (Yocto) and Ubuntu deployment, GStreamer pipelines, GPU/ISP/VPU/NPU acceleration, security, and over-the-air updates. Reproducible benchmarks document multimedia latency and hardware acceleration performance, with test conditions and commands to help developers evaluate results on their own systems.

Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-9075 Evaluation Kit (EVK)
Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-9075 Evaluation Kit (EVK), obtained from Qualcomm IQ9075

What This Guide Covers

This guide follows a product-development path:

  1. Understand the Dragonwing IQ9 Series and the IQ-9075 EVK.
  2. Build steps for Ubuntu or Qualcomm Linux.
  3. Flash the IQ 9075 and establish serial, network, and SSH access.
  4. Example GStreamer pipelines with camera, codec, graphics, and AI acceleration.
  5. Reproducible latency, throughput, CPU load, GPU load and memory benchmarks.
  6. Procedures to enable secure boot, encryption, trusted execution (TEE), and OTA updates.

Explore the guide

The wiki is organized around platform introduction, EVK bring-up, system software workflows, multimedia enablement, hardware acceleration, and security features. Use these entry points to jump into the main sections of the Qualcomm Dragonwing Technical Guide.

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Introduction
Learn what the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ9 platform is, why it is useful, and how RidgeRun services and products support development on this platform.
Hardware platform
Carrier Boards
Review the IQ-9075 EVK carrier board information and use it as the hardware starting point for platform bring-up.
IQ-9075 bring-up
IQ-9075 Bring Up
Follow Yocto and Ubuntu workflows to set up the environment, build or flash images, and access the board.
Media framework
GStreamer
Enable GStreamer support, run example pipelines, and review performance information for multimedia validation.
Application enablement
Multimedia Support
Explore video capture, encoding, decoding, transformation, streaming, and hardware acceleration workflows.
Platform security
Security Features
Review secure boot, disk encryption, A/B redundancy, TEE, and OTA update capabilities for production-ready deployments.

RidgeRun Embedded Linux Development and Qualcomm Dragonwing Support

With over 20 years of experience in embedded Linux development, RidgeRun helps companies design, optimize, and deploy solutions across platforms including Qualcomm Dragonwing, NVIDIA Jetson, NXP, and AMD Xilinx. Our engineering expertise spans the complete product development lifecycle, from custom hardware bring-up and board support packages (BSPs) to hardware-accelerated multimedia pipelines and fully customized embedded applications. RidgeRun specializes in GStreamer, GPU acceleration, computer vision, and embedded multimedia optimization. Our software solutions build on this experience to reduce development complexity and accelerate time to market. One example is RidgeRun Video Stitcher 2.0, which extends our proven video stitching technology to Qualcomm Dragonwing platforms using OpenGL-based hardware acceleration for multi-camera panoramic video processing.

Qualcomm Dragonwing Technical Guide
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