Qualcomm Dragonwing Technical Guide

The Qualcomm Dragonwing Technical Guide is a practical engineering reference for bringing up, validating, and optimizing the Dragonwing IQ-9075 EVK. It covers Qualcomm Linux and Ubuntu deployment, GStreamer multimedia, GPU/ISP/VPU/NPU acceleration, security, and over-the-air updates. Use it as a reproducible starting point and technical reference.

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. Select Ubuntu or Qualcomm Linux built with Yocto.
  3. Flash the target and establish serial, network, and SSH access.
  4. Validate GStreamer, camera, codec, graphics, and AI acceleration.
  5. Measure latency, throughput, CPU load, memory, power, and temperature.
  6. Plan secure boot, data protection, trusted execution, and OTA updates.

How to Use the Guide

Parent pages in the table of contents provide an overview of each topic. Child pages contain in-depth details: commands, procedures, and results. Use the procedures and results presented as a reference for your own development.

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 has more than 20 years of experience providing 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.

Qualcomm Dragonwing Technical Guide
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