Ubuntu on Qualcomm® IoT Platforms emerges from a strategic collaboration between Qualcomm Technologies and Canonical, delivering optimized Ubuntu images specifically for Qualcomm IoT platforms. This initiative is designed to cater to a wide array of device applications at the intelligent edge.

Dragonwing platforms support leading RTOSs including FreeRTOS, SafeRTOS, and Zephyr—enabling real-time capabilities in dedicated MCU-like subsystems for safety-critical tasks, deterministic control loops, and OT offload.

Linux offering for IoT development with LTS Kernel, multi-SoCs support, focused on upstream compliance. Qualcomm Linux is a comprehensive package of software, tools, and documentation meticulously designed for Qualcomm's IoT platforms. It offers a unified Linux distribution that caters to multiple System-on-Chips (SoCs), featuring essential components such as the UEFI bootloader, the latest Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel, Yocto, and carefully selected drivers. This ensures a consistent and seamless developer experience across all targets. The Qualcomm Linux software stack extends support to all processors, subsystems, and components within the platform, encompassing the CPU, GPU, VPU, DPU, NPU, PMICs, and more. It extensively utilizes upstream open-source software (OSS) while incorporating patched upstream and downstream drivers as needed to ensure compatibility and optimal functionality.

Android on Dragonwing is an enterprise-ready Android OS, backed by a board support package (BSP) with exclusive optimizations that work across our portfolio of Qualcomm DragonwingTM processors. Use Android on Dragonwing to take advantage of 5G, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth® wireless connectivity, and its high-performance CPU, GPU, and NPU, to build responsive, power-efficient solutions for industrial, retail, and edge AI.

Developer-centric Debian foundation with qcom-deb-images tooling. Available starting with Arduino Uno Q.

A portfolio of Windows software that is supported on our IoT platforms to accelerate and run your Windows-based apps on devices powered by our Dragonwing IoT chipsets.

Provides lower-level, highly customizable unified APIs that speeds up AI models on all AI accelerator cores with individual libraries. Can be used directly to target a specific accelerator core or delegate workloads from popular runtimes including Qualcomm Neural Processing SDK, TensorFlow Lite and ONNX runtime.

For developers, Qualcomm Technologies provides the Snapdragon® Telematics Application Framework (TelAF), a unified development environment including SIM management, peripheral device connections, and APIs for building cloud-connected apps and services. The framework is a set of build/debug/code-generation tools and support designed to simplify application development. Open source and scalable, the application framework allows developers to use telematics functionality across all platforms in the Snapdragon® Digital Chassis™, reducing costs and complexity when developing cloud-based applications and services. Based on the Yocto Linux distribution, this feature-rich set of tools provides developers with common APIs for integrating technology features such as 5G, location services, memory and security. Compatible with all present and future platforms in the Snapdragon Digital Chassis, the Snapdragon Telematics Application Framework (TelAF) allows developers to focus on their core expertise when creating applications that support enhanced safety, immersive infotainment and driver assistance and autonomy.

IoT Solutions Microservices brings containerized IoT to edge development so you can quickly build on-device IoT applications that are easy to deploy and manage.

Hardware-rooted security across every Dragonwing platform. Qualcomm Trusted Execution Environment (QTEE) isolates secure and non-secure operations, Secure Boot with eFuse-based root of trust ensures only authenticated firmware runs, and device attestation enables zero-touch onboarding and remote integrity verification for fleet-scale deployments.

Generative AI models such as large language models (LLMs) and large vision models (LVMs) contain multiple binaries after optimization due to their complexity and larger size. These binaries require a specific order of execution to utilize the processing power of a Neural Processing Unit (NPU). With Gen AI Inference Extensions (GENIE), you can streamline on-device Gen AI models in a single execution job. GENIE simplifies Gen AI inferencing at the edge by providing software library commands and resources integrated with Qualcomm®AI Engine direct. Qualcomm AI Hub supports GENIE, offering optimized models and sample apps on how to use Gen AI Inference Extensions (GENIE) to executeLLMs. A single SDK download includes the Qualcomm Neural Processing SDK, Qualcomm AI Engine direct SDK, and GENIE with the corresponding APIs,​ providing developers with a complete package you need to build your next project​.

Welcome to use the Qualcomm® Intelligent Robotics Product SDK (QIRP SDK) 2.0. This SDK is applicable to the Qualcomm® Linux releases. QIRP SDK is a collection of components that enable a developer to realize robotics features on Qualcomm Platforms.

Qualcomm® Intelligent Multimedia Product Software Development Kit (QIMP SDK) is a powerful and unified solution designed to empower application developers in the Internet of Things (IoT) space. Product SDKs combine several functional SDKs making it easy for you to build your applications.

AIMET is a library that provides advanced quantization and compression techniques for trained neural network models.

A comprehensive set of ready-to-use AI functions and tools provided as both standard OpenAI APIs, and an easy-to-use Python SDK. It also includes sample applications, agents, tools, and libraries for developing and deploying AI inference on premises or via cloud deployments.

The Qualcomm® Hexagon™ SDK provides Windows and Linux based tools, software, and documentation to assist developers to build, run, debug, and profile applications on Qualcomm Technologies targets including Mobile, Embedded Linux (LE) and XR devices leveraging the Hexagon DSPs.

Qualcomm security toolchain for secure boot enablement and image authentication across Dragonwing SoCs. Sign, encrypt, and inspect firmware images; create and sign fuse-blower images for eFuse programming; generate secure debug policies; and manage ELF/MBN image packaging—all driven by per-chipset security profiles.

The Snapdragon® LLVM Toolchain for Arm® Technology is a C/C++ toolchain that enables a broad range of configurations, providing better performance, code-size and power use for your non-high-level operating system (HLOS) as well as Android and Windows on Snapdragon applications. This product is specific to QIK Installers.

Qualcomm® Software Center manages Qualcomm® software and simplifies the development process. It offers features such as 1) Browse and discover Qualcomm® tools, SDKs, and chip software in the web portal or the Qualcomm Software Center GUI desktop application. 2) The desktop application is a guided UI to find, install, compile, and manage software resources for Qualcomm® devices (referred to as “Launcher” on Qualcomm® Software Center). You can also manage installation and updates of tools, SDKs, and chip software for your development environment. 3) qsc-cli command line interface (CLI) downloads and compiles Qualcomm software builds. qsc-cli uses docker environment at the backend and simplifies host setup, sync, and build to a few simple commands.

The Qualcomm® Profiler is a powerful performance profiling system designed to detect, measure, and enhance application scalability across various components of Qualcomm System-on-Chip (SoC) devices. It provides insights into the performance of CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, and other essential IP blocks, enabling developers to optimize their applications effectively.

Edge Impulse is an end-to-end edge AI platform that empowers developers to build, train, and deploy machine learning models directly on embedded devices rather than relying on cloud infrastructure. It offers a comprehensive toolchain for Sensor data collection, Model training using algorithms like neural networks, Optimization for low-power hardware, and Deployment to edge devices such as microcontrollers

The platform for on-device AI. Any model, any device, any runtime. Deploy within minutes.”

Remote access to real Dragonwing evaluation kits for testing and validation. Integrated with AI Hub Workbench—accelerate development without physical kits on every engineer's desk.

FoundriesFactory is a SaaS platform that uses GitOps to build and customize Yocto-based Linux images and containerized apps and deploy them onto embedded devices such as the QualcommDragonwing™ RB3 Gen 2. The comprehensive platform is built with Foundries.io’s open source Linux microPlatform (LmP) operating system, giving your embedded devices the benefit of a DevSecOps-based workflow.

The official OpenEmbedded/Yocto BSP layer for Qualcomm platforms—your foundation for custom Linux-based IoT products.

Curated community projects showcasing real-world edge AI solutions built on Dragonwing—learn from peers and contribute your own.

Yocto Project layers, kernels, and build utilities—fully open, upstream-first, and community-driven.