Qualcomm Robotics RB5/RB6 - Qualcomm Robotics RB6 platform

Qualcomm Robotics RB5/RB6
Introduction
SoM Overview Why the RB5/RB6? Carrier Boards Qualcomm Robotics RB5 developer kit Qualcomm Robotics RB6 platform
Software Development Support
Boot Devices Thundercomm SDK Downloading SDK Installing SDK Generating Image and flashing Linaro Getting Started Flashing Bootloader Flashing Boot Image and Rootfs Special / Debug Modes Setting up board in EDL Mode Setting up board in Fastboot Mode
Development in the Board
Getting into the Board Using ADB Using Serial Console Using SSH Device Setup WiFi setup HDMI setup Update Ubuntu Packages
Build from source
Base Image Customize Image
Capture Subsystem
Hardware Capture Components Software Capture Components Building your own camera sensor driver
Image Processing and Acceleration Software
GPU Profiling Fast CV Installing Hexagon SDK Installing Fast CV Building your own Fast CV application
GStreamer Pipelines
Capture and Display Video Encoding Video Decoding
AI Acceleration
Neural Processing SDK Downloading Requirements Setup SDK Environment Install qtimlesnpe Running Inception v3 Running MobileNetV2 + SSD TensorFlow Example pipeline TensorFlow to DLC Conversion
Sensors
IMU
Demos
Drone Demo Smart Camera
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The Qualcomm Robotics RB6 Developer kit is compliant with 96Boards, AWS RoboMaker and ROS (Robot Operating System). As the RB5 devkit, it also supports mezzanine-board expansion, like the vision mezzanine, AI mezzanine and 5G one. Currently, Thundercomm sells only Standard version, that comes with both vision and AI mezzanine. This standard version can be bought with 70 TOPS or 200 TOPS, that dependes on the AIC module . Figure 1 shows the main parts of the developer kit.

Figure 1: RB6 Developer Kit Overview

Developer Kit Components

• QRB5165N SOM board.
• Qualcomm Robotics RB6 mainboard.
• Vision Mezzanine board.
• AI Mezzanine board.
• Mezzanine expansion connectors.
• AIC100 module
• Wall power adapter.

Now, we are going to overview the key components available in the Qualcomm Robotics RB6 developer kit.

Main carrier board

The mainboard includes the following components.

Power

• 1x +12V DC Power jack

Storage

• 1x MicroSD card slot

Ethernet

• 1x RJ45 Ethernet connector

Wireless

• 2x 2.4/5 GHz Wi-Fi/Bluetooth antennas

USB

• 1x Micro USB for debugging
• 1x USB Type-C 3.0
• 2x USB Type-A 3.0

Display

• 1x HDMI 1.4 Type-A, up to 4K@60Hz with audio

Audio

• 2x Class-D Qualcomm WSA8815 Amplifiers
• 1x PDM digital MEMS microphone

Vision Mezzanine

The Vision mezzanine board includes the following components:

Camera

• 1x Main camera sensor IMX577
  • Interface: MIPI
  • Resolution/fps: 4056x3040/60fps
• 1x Tracking camera sensor OV9282
  • Interface: MIPI
  • Resolution/fps: 1280x800/120fps or 640x480/180fps
• 2x GMSL2 camera inputs

AI Mezzanine

• AIC100 module: Qualcomm Cloud AI 100.