Qualcomm® Robotics RB2 Platform (Qualcomm® QRB4210)
Dream up and deploy a new generation of everyday robotics and IoT products for the masses without sacrificing features or performance.
The Qualcomm Robotics RB2 platform integrates high-level features, AI solutions, and powerful performance in a unified, cost-effective solution giving OEMs, ODMs, and developers flexibility to design and create a generation of high-performance everyday robotics and IoT products.
The Qualcomm Robotics RB2 combines heterogeneous-compute performance and dedicated AI accelerator, communications technologies, and new levels of cost-effectiveness and accessibility for the industry. The platform is optimized for smaller devices and lower power consumption.
This extends to their built-in support for machine vision; support for up to three cameras, providing onboard intelligence to meld this data with other high-fidelity sensors from TDK for applications such as autonomous navigation.
Applications:
Robotics RB2 Platform Applications
Vacuum Robot
Service Robot
E-scooter
Smart Camera
Rugged Handheld
Smart Panel
Robotics RB2 Platform Highlights
On-device AI intelligence
The Qualcomm Robotics RB2 Platform supports a dedicated DSP for on-device AI processing. It supports all major AI frameworks and networks.
High-performance camera capabilities
New ISP hardware architecture and latest software architecture for premium IQ experience – multi-frame noise reduction (MFNR) for snapshot, temporal noise reduction for video, electronic image stabilization (EIS), etc. Triple ISPs enable support for up to 3 cameras.
Power efficient and cost-effective
Designed to support entry tier robots and IoT devices that have challenging power and thermal dissipation requirements.
Heterogenous computing
The Qualcomm Robotics RB2 platform provides powerful heterogeneous computing capabilities in low-tier using the quad high performance Qualcomm® Kryo™ 260 CPU and quad silver core CPUs, powerful Qualcomm® Adreno™ 610 GPU, and compute DSP with Hexagon Vector eXtensions (dual-HVX at 1.0 GHz)..
Full development kit for robotics and IoT
Further reduce development time and complexity using a feature packed development kit. The kit includes the robotics-focused development board based on the QRB4210 processor. The platform offers support for Linux and Robot Operating System (ROS) 2, as well as pre-integrated drivers for various cameras, sensors and connectivity.
Common software with Qualcomm® Robotics RB1 platform
The Qualcomm® Robotics RB1 and Qualcomm Robotics RB2 platforms share common software. Developers can decrease development time and reduce costs associated with creating applications across both platforms. It also allows OEMs to address multiple tiers of the market with RB1 and RB2 platforms.
Robotics RB2 Platform Features
• 11 nm Process Technology for improved performance and lower power consumption
• Designed with CPU architectures for increased speeds and sustained performance
• Kryo 260 CPU with quad high-performance cores 2.0 GHz and quad power-saving cores 1.8 GHz
• Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU 610 at 950 MHz with 64‑bit addressing
• Compute DSP with Hexagon Vector eXtensions (dual-HVX at 1.0 GHz)
• Dual-channel non-PoP high-speed memory
• Qualcomm FastConnect™ 6100 provides the Wi-Fi 6-ready, integrated with Wi-Fi subsystem with Bluetooth 5, WPA3 Security, and digital FM. Bluetooth 5.1 provides improvement in power performance from previous generation
• Qualcomm® Universal Bandwidth Compression (UBWC) with display and GPU
• Support FHD+ display, four hardware layers, 10‑bit end-to-end, and Qualcomm® True Palette Display feature
• 3x ISP (13 MP + 13 MP)/(25 MP + 5 MP) at 30 fps
• 1080p60 video encode/decode
• Support for USB 3.1 Type-C, 2.1 gear 3 (one-lane), eMMC 5.1, and SD3.0
• Long term support with extended life hardware and software support through 2027
Specifications of the Qualcomm® Robotics RB2 Development Kit
| Component | Qualcomm® Robotics RB2 Development Kit |
| CPU | Name: Qualcomm® Kryo™ 260 Number of Cores: 8 Clock Speed: Up to 2.0 GHz |
| DSP: | Dedicated compute DSP – Qualcomm® Hexagon™ DSP with Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Vectore Xtensions (dual HVX at 1.0 GHz) |
| GPU | Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU 610 at 950 MHz with 64‑bit addressing |
| Wi-Fi | 1 × 1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac |
| Bluetooth | Specification Version: Bluetooth® 5.0 |
| Camera and Video | 3 × ISP (13 MP + 13 MP)/(25 MP + 5 MP) at 30 fps or (16MP + 16 MP) at 24 fps; Three 4-lane CSIs (4/4/4 or 4/4/2/1), D-PHY 1.2 at 2.5 Gbps per lane or C-PHY 1.0 at 10 Gbps (3.42 Gbps/trio) |
| Video | 1080p60 8-bit HEVC (H.265)/H.264 encode and decode; Concurrency: 1080p30 decode + 1080p30 encode |
| Security | Secure boot, secure debug, secure key provisioning, TrustZone, Qualcomm ® Trusted Execution Environment, hardware supported KeyStore, secure DSP |
| Memory | Dual-channel non-PoP high-speed memory: LPDDR4X SDRAM designed for 1866 MHz clock (2 × 16 bit) and LPDDR3 SDRAM designed for 933 MHz clock (1 × 32 bit) |
| Part | Part Number(s): QRB4210 |
| Catagory | Class | Document Name |
| Public Documents | - | - |
| Private Documents | Get the Private Documents > | |
Everything You Need to Generate System Image
RB2 SDK Manager provides an end-to-end image generation/downloading solution for developers to work with RB2 devices.
Highlights
• Generate system image on local PC
• Version control of official image releases
• Flash full build into RB2 device
• Designed for developers
System Requirements
• Host OS: Ubuntu Desktop 18.04
• Alternative: Ubuntu 18.04 on Docker
NOTE： Ubuntu under libvirt KVM/QEMU is not supported
What’s in RB2 SDK Manager
• SDK Manager debian package
• README (User guide)
• Dockerfile for generating Ubuntu 18.04 docker image
Release Note for Updated Image:
| Release note for LE image |
| QRB4210.LE.1.0-Post-CS6: 1.Based on Qualcomm release r00017.0 2.Propose based on PVT1.1 96board HW -------------------- QRB4210.LE.1.0-Post-CS5: 1.Based on Qualcomm release r00016.0 2.Propose based on PVT1.1 96board HW -------------------- QRB4210.LE.1.0-Post-CS4: 1.Based on Qualcomm release r00015.0 2.Propose based on PVT1.1 96board HW -------------------- QRB4210.LE.1.0-Post-CS2: 1. Based on Qualcomm release r00013.0 2. Propose based on PVT HW |
| Notes: please refer to Qualcomm official release notes for complete support lists of QC releases |
Release Note for SDK Manager
- Support for RB3 Gen2
- Support for C6490
- Support for RB5 Gen 2
- Support for RB5 LE2.0
- Optimize the product selection interface
- Support for RB5N Non-pop
- Update README_Linux.txt
- Update README_Windows.txt
- Support for RB5 LU2.0
- Support for RB1
- Support for RB2
- Support for RB6 Non-pop
- Enable LE SDK toolchain download
- Commands to download LE releases
- Update README
- Modify flash method
- Update README
- Update README
- Add debug message on flashing
- Minor fixes
- User credential check
- Dynamic image version control
- Enable system image repack
- Enable full build flash on Ubuntu
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Qualcomm® Robotics RB2 Development Kit (Core Kit)
Package List:
C4210 SOM & Interposer + Main IO Board + Antennas + Power Adapter
$249
Qualcomm® Robotics RB2 Development Kit (Vision Kit)
Package List:
C4210 SOM & Interposer + Main IO Board + Vision Mezzanine Board + Camera + Antennas + Power Adapter
$499
Qualcomm® Robotics RB2 Development Kit (Full Kit)
Package List:
C4210 SOM & Interposer + Main IO Board + Vision Mezzanine Board + Display + Camera + Antennas + Power Adapter
$549
Qualcomm® Robotics RB2 Development Kit:
TDK Mezzanine Board
The TDK Mezzanine Board includes all the latest technologies offerings from TDK focused on the Robotics industry. The TDK Mezzanine combines the market leading performance of the ICM-42688-P IMU with the World’s Highest Performing Digital Microphone (T5818) and TDK’s Ultrasonic Time-of-Flight (ToF) range finder (CH-101 and CH-201). These sensors are accompanied by TDK’s Motor Driver (HVC4420F-B1), Barometric Pressure (ICP-10111), and TDK’s newest industrial grade IMU Module, the IIM-46230. The TDK Mezzanine is the perfect complement to the RB5 platform and provides all the sensor data needed to help fast track development of next generation robotics.
Note: TDK Mezzanine Board require RB5 platform since it cannot work alone.
Note: TDK Mezzanine Board require RB5 platform since it cannot work alone.
Package List:
TDK Mezzanine Board + Bracket
$249
