Qualcomm Dragonwing Technical Guide

This wiki contains technical documentation and insights to bring up the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-9075 platform. This platform delivers high-compute, power-efficient AI performance for demanding industrial applications operating in extreme environments, with thermal junction support from -40°C to 115°C.

Obtained from: Qualcomm IQ9075

The IQ-9075 SoC is offered in two configurations:

  • 50 TOPS variant requiring two PMICs
  • 100 TOPS variant requiring four PMICs

This allows designers to scale performance to system needs. The platform supports the Qualcomm® Linux® software stack and Ubuntu, and includes 10 years of LTS.

It is equipped with:

  • CPU: 8x ARM cores, Qualcomm® Kryo™ at > 2.1 GHz
  • NPU: Qualcomm® Hexagon™ at 50 or 100 TOPS
  • GPU: Adreno™ 663
  • RAM: Up to 36 GB of LPDDR5
  • Encoding: 2x 4K @ 60 fps
  • Decoding: 4x 4K @ 60 fps
  • Cameras: Up to 16

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.
EVK board bring-up
EVK Board 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 Support

RidgeRun provides support for embedded Linux development in a variety of platforms, such as NVIDIA, Qualcomm, NXP, Xilinx, and many others. Our experience covers the complete lifecycle of a product, ranging from custom hardware bring-up to fully custom embedded applications. RidgeRun also specializes in hardware accelerators and general multimedia applications focused.

Qualcomm Dragonwing Technical Guide
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