Enrico Salvatori, Senior Vice President and President of Qualcomm Europe discusses Qualcomm Dragonwing's support of the complete AI and Edge ecosystem.
Qualcomm’s RB3 Gen 2 Kit now features the Edge Impulse platform, enabling more than 170,000 developers to create, deploy, and monitor AI models for a wide range of edge applications and hardware.
The Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 Development Kit has been designed to help you develop high-performance IoT and edge AI applications. With powerful AI acceleration, pre-validated peripherals, and extensive software support, this kit enables every engineer to move quickly from prototype to production within a growing developer-friendly ecosystem. Now, with the integration of Edge Impulse, you have even more flexibility to build, train, and deploy machine learning models on the Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 platform.
At the heart of the Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 Kit is the Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QCS6490 / Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QCS5430 processor, delivering AI acceleration optimized for computer vision and edge inference. Whether you're building for smart devices, robotics, industrial automation, or just any general-purpose edge AI applications for any data and model combination, this kit provides real-time superior AI processing with power efficiency in mind.
With Wi-Fi 6E connectivity for fast data transfer and expanded I/O support, the kit ensures seamless integration with external peripherals, sensors, or cameras. Built on the 96Boards open hardware standard, it allows you to customize and extend your setup with mezzanine cards to fit your application-specific needs.
With the addition of Edge Impulse platform, the Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 Kit now offers an even broader set of tools for AI and IoT development. The Qualcomm developer ecosystem continues to expand, enabling faster prototyping and seamless AI model development and deployment, and allowing developers to move quickly from prototype to production.
Leveraging Edge Impulse Studio, you can now easily collect data, train, fine tune AI models, and deploy them on the Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 Kit. Edge Impulse integrates with the Qualcomm AI Hub to ensure that your models are optimized for performance, power efficiency, and memory usage, allowing AI workloads to run smoothly on edge devices.
Through this integration, you will be able to:
- Use Edge Impulse Studio to train, and fine-tune AI models with real-world sensor data and deploy models as C++ libraries, Docker containers, or ready-to-flash binaries
- Leverage the Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia Product SDK for advanced data pre-processing, post-processing, and inference
Don’t have a device to get started? With Qualcomm Device Cloud, you can start building and testing applications without needing physical hardware. This cloud-based Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QCS6490 gives you remote access to the physical hardware, so you can develop and validate real-time performances from anywhere. Combined with Edge Impulse’s MLOps workflows, you can deploy edge AI models seamlessly on our cloud hosted device accelerating your development cycle and making it easier to iterate before moving to real-world deployment.
The kit supports multiple operating systems, including Linux (Yocto Project), Ubuntu, Android, and Windows, giving you the flexibility to choose the best platform for your applications.
Qualcomm Technologies provides a robust suite of developer tools, including:
To help you get started, the Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 Kit comes with comprehensive documentation, including detailed hardware documentation, user guides, and tutorials. Additionally, Qualcomm Technologies provides a repository of sample applications that demonstrate the kit's capabilities for various use cases. These resources help developers quickly get started and build innovative solutions.
At Qualcomm Technologies, we believe that innovation is a collaborative effort. Start evaluating or developing with the Qualcomm RB3 Gen2 Development Kit. We invite you and every developer to join us in exploring the possibilities of the Qualcomm Dragonwing processors – with an easy development journey for AI applications thanks to Edge Impulse. Whether you're working on robotics, industrial automation, or any other IoT application, the Qualcomm RB3 Gen2 Development Kit provides the tools you need to succeed.