Qualcomm Robotics RB5/Software Support

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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In this section, you are going to learn about the software development kits (SDKs) available for Qualcomm Robotics RB5/RB6 (QRB5165) and the devices from which the platform can boot (Boot Devices). An SDK provides a set of tools, documentation, libraries, and/or guides that allow developers to create software applications. It is the most convenient and fast way to build software for an embedded system. For RB5/RB6 we have the following options: Thundercomm SDK Manager and Linaro.

Thundercomm

Thundercomm SDK Manager is the official SDK offered for the Qualcomm Robotics RB5/RB6 (QRB5165). It's the easiest way to start developing on the RB5/RB6. It includes the tools to generate an OS image and flash it on the platform.

You can learn how to get, install, and use the SDK manager in our Thundercomm SDK section.

Linaro

Linaro offers an alternative set of Linux software builds for different platforms. They provide upstream support and a vanilla Linux distribution for the Qualcomm Robotics RB5/RB6. The Linaro OpenEmbedded RPB version 21.12 for the Robotics RB5/RB6 platform is based on the OpenEmbedded / Yocto Project release 3.1.12 (dunfell). It is also based on the Linux kernel 5.15.6.

To learn how to get, install and use it, please read our section on Linaro.