Qualcomm Robotics RB5/RB6 - Getting Started with Thundercomm SDK Manager

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
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Getting into the Board Using ADB Using Serial Console Using SSH Device Setup WiFi setup HDMI setup Update Ubuntu Packages
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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
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The SDK Manager provides a set of tools for creating and flashing the RB5/RB6 firmware. For this guide, we are using version 3.0.0 of the SDK (Latest version as of Jan, 2023). This version supports Robotics RB5/RB6 platform. In this section, you will learn about the Thundercomm SDK Manager and the system requirements to use it. The Thundercomm SDK Manager runs on a host computer, not in the Robotics RB5/RB6 platform. The Host computer must have:

• Required Operating System (OS): Ubuntu Linux 18.04. You can run an Ubuntu 18.04 in a docker container for other versions.
• Disk-space: 20GB
• RAM: 16GB

Get the SDK Manager

This section assumes that you are working on a host computer that meets the requirements above. The steps to get the SDK Manager installed on your host computer are:

1. Register into Thundercomm official page. This step is necessary to use the SDK Manager. Please check figure 1 and 2 for a guide on where to register.

Figure 1: Thundercomm's main page. Button at top right corner to access account.

Figure 2: Page to access your account. Button to register.

2. Download the SDK Manager installer from any of the following links:

• Latest version of the SDK Manager,Info & Download (In this RidgeRun guide, the 3.0.0 version was used)

• To automatically download the 3.0.0 version.

3. Unzip the SDK Manager by running the following command in a terminal:

Note

Make sure to replace the <TC-sdkmanager-x.x.x.zip> with the appropriate name according to the zip file downloaded in step 2.

unzip TC-sdkmanager-x.x.x.zip

For example, if the file downloaded from Thundercomm is named TC-sdkmanager-3.0.0.zip, then you can use the following command to unzip it:

unzip TC-sdkmanager-3.0.0.zip

4. Verify that the downloading was successful by checking the files in the directory. For this, you can run the following commands:

Note

Make sure to replace the directory <TC-sdkmanager-3.0.0> with the appropriate name according to the zip file downloaded in step 2.

user@desktop:~/work/QRB5_Exploration$ cd TC-sdkmanager-3.0.0/
user@desktop:~/work/QRB5_Exploration/TC-sdkmanager-3.0.0$ ls
Dockerfile  README.txt  tc-sdkmanager-v3.0.0_amd64.deb

At this point, you should have the SDK Manager downloaded and ready to be installed. Please check our next section in Installing SDK where we show how to install the SDK in your host computer.