QUALCOMM’s IOT roadmap offers a range of powerful and highly integrated system on chip devices for a broad set of IOT use cases and applications. This article focuses on the software resources available for QUALCOMM’s SOC roadmap, specifically the QRB5165 SOC, better known as the RB5 platform for Robotics applications. The RB5 platform is provided with a complete Ubuntu linux based software release in addition to a separate Linux architecture based on Yocto embedded Linux. This software release is based on Ubuntu version 20.04, running version 5.4 of the Linux kernel, and includes proprietary subsystem software, tools, middleware, GUI applications, audio support, video capture, and device management.
