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Dragonwing RB3 Gen 2 development kits offer advanced AI edge computing for diverse IoT applications. With Dragonwing QCS6490 and Dragonwing QCS5430 processors, these kits ease the development of efficient, high-performance, and AI-enhanced solutions for robotics, AI vision, and smart security. They enable more secure on-device decision-making, minimizing cloud dependency.

The Dragonwing RB3 Gen 2 kits support multiple operating systems, including Linux, Android, Ubuntu, and Windows. They feature a modular 96Board design with extensive connectivity options via USB, Ethernet, camera and display ports, GPIOs for various protocols (SPI, UART, I2C, PCle, USB, MIPI), and support for Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2.

Qualcomm® Visual Studio Code Extension provides an easy and user-friendly interface for device setup, application development, and deployment on Dragonwing RB3 Gen 2. These kits are also supported by Edge Impulse, Qualcomm ® AI Hub, and Foundries.io platforms for streamlined AI model development and deployment on edge devices.

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Hardware Overview

For more details, check the hardware overview documentation

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Core Kit

Core Kit

Default kit providing core functionality of the kit.

Camera

2x C-PHY/D-PHY 30-pin expansion ports on interposer board

Audio

1x DMIC, 2x digital audio amplifiers
I2S/Soundwire/ DMIC expansion on low-speed connectors

Sensor

IMU onboard (ICM-42688)
additional expansion

Vision Kit

Vision Kit

Core kit with low- and high-resolution CSI cameras and a mounting bracket.

Camera

1x IMX577 D-PHY 12 MP

1x OV9282 D-PHY 1 MP with bracket, plus additional D-PHY and GMSLcapable expansion ports

Audio

4x DMIC, 2x digital audio amplifiers
I2S/Soundwire/DMIC expansion on low-speed connectors

Sensor

IMU (ICM-42688), Pressure sensor (ICP-10111)
Mag sensor/compass (AK09915) additional expansion

Benefits

Ease of development

Open access, a competitive pricing model, easier to use tools, and support for multiple operating systems make the kit accessible to a wide audience, from professional engineers to hobbyists.

Onboard Artificial Intelligence

Advanced edge AI processing with up to 12 dense TOPs enables faster and more power-efficient AI inferencing, supported by Qualcomm AI Hub and Edge impulse.

Software Support

Use the preloaded Qualcomm® Linux® software stack with additional SDKs and VS Code Extension support for cross-compile toolchains, robotics algorithms, and GStreamer plugins.

Camera and Computer Vision

Using up to three concurrent cameras to develop for real-time object detection makes it suitable for security systems, autonomous drones, and smart vision prototyping.

Use Cases

  • Edge AI Model Development and Prototyping
    Create, test, and optimize AI models with Edge Impulse and Qualcomm AI Hub platforms for various IoT applications like robotics, AI vision, and smart security.
  • Robotics and Industrial Automation
    Build proof of concepts with real-time, on-device AI decision-making and execution for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), drones, industrial machinery, and agricultural robotics.
  • Multi-sensor and Camera Fusion
    Design multi-sensor and camera systems with real-time sensor fusion technology for surveillance, object detection, navigation, predictive maintenance, quality control, and process automation.

Additional use cases for these robust and flexible kits include industrial handheld devices, retail solutions, point-of-sale (POS systems), personal healthcare, and single-board computers (SBCs).

Embedded AI workflow

Dragonwing RB3 Gen 2 development kits are supported by platforms and SDKs such as Edge Impulse, Qualcomm AI Hub, and Foundries.io, for a streamlined AI model workflow, and Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia (IM) SDK for a simplified integration of video and audio streams. The AI workflow includes AI model selection, raw data acquisition, model training/refining and benchmarking, and deployment onto multiple edge devices in production.

AI Models 

Run ML models on real devices within minutes

Qualcomm AI Developer Workflow
 

AI/ML Developer Workflow is designed as a step-by-step guide to help developers seamlessly prepare an optimized model, evaluate its performance using the Qualcomm® AI Hub and then use the model in an application using Qualcomm® Intelligent Multimedia SDK (IM SDK). The Qualcomm AI Hub provides developers with a comprehensive library of validated and optimized AI models for deployment on Qualcomm® and Snapdragon® platforms.

 

Developers can also bring their own models and optimize them using the Qualcomm AI Hub workflow, or train models from scratch using Edge Impulse. Models are optimized to take advantage of hardware acceleration using all compute cores within the Qualcomm® AI Engine (CPU, GPU and NPU) and a way to run these models on devices powered by Qualcomm platforms with a few lines of code. The Qualcomm IM SDK exposes easy to use APIs and plugins to stitch multimedia components and ML models to create a pipeline for deployment in an application.

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Security Disclaimer:

 

The development and evaluation kit is being provided solely for engineering sampling purposes and is not intended for use in commercial products in the state provided. To enable an easy and fast development / prototyping experience, this kit is shipped with the secure boot not enabled and with debug enabled, providing invasive debugging capabilities.  As a result of this security configuration, this development and evaluation kit as provided operates on insecure and considered-to-be-known cryptographic material, which is not suitable to protect assets such as models, applications, data, products or any other sensitive information that a user may choose to process on this development and evaluation kit. Due to the nature of having debug enabled, there are also no guarantees on memory and software integrity, as well as no guarantees on the confidentiality of such assets. Therefore, customers are strongly advised to not use this development and evaluation kit, or any component therein, when commercializing products until such kit and the components therein are properly secured. In order to do so, please register with Qualcomm to receive the necessary security enablement guidelines and tooling. This will assist customers in securely provisioning the required customer cryptographic keying material, disabling debug, and enabling secure boot.

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