Welcome to the Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia Product SDK (QIMP SDK)

In this documentation, you will learn:

• What is the Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia Product SDK
• How to sync and build the Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia Product SDK
• How to install and uninstall the Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia Product SDK

Let's get started!

What is the Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia Product SDK

The Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia Product SDK is a Product SDK across Internet of Things (IOT) segments encompassing QIM SDK, TF-lite SDK, SNPE SDK and QNN SDK enabling seamless multimedia and AI/ML application deployment. This SDK utilizes GStreamer, an open-source multimedia framework and exposes easy APIs and plugins in both multimedia and AI/ML domain.

The Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia Product SDK provides advanced features as below:

• APIs and tools for multimedia/AI application development.
• Add your own application recipes based on QIMSDK for multimedia development and use AI acceleration using TFLITE-SDK/QNN/SNPE SDKs.
• Standalone compilation based on Yocto Project.

The Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia Product SDK consist of :

• recipes: has recipes to build individual qimsdk/tflite/qnn/snpe packages
• packagegroups: has qimsdk/tflite/qnn/snpe packagegroups
• classes: has base and qimsdk/tflite/qnn/snpe packaging classes
• conf: has layer.conf with qimsdk/tflite/qnn/snpe layer specific configurations

How to sync and build the Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia Product SDK

Host Setup and Download the Yocto Project BSP

Refer to QCOM Linux Yocto BSP releases setup the host environment and download Yocto Project BSP.

mkdir [release]
cd [release]
repo init -u https://github.com/quic-yocto/qcom-manifest -b [branch name] -m [release manifest]
repo sync

Examples

To download the qcom-6.6.38-QLI.1.2-Ver.1.0 release

repo init -u https://github.com/quic-yocto/qcom-manifest -b qcom-linux-kirkstone -m qcom-6.6.38-QLI.1.2-Ver.1.1.xml
repo sync

Run below command to download "meta-qcom-qim-product-sdk" layer in [release] directory where you have downloaded Yocto Project BSP.

cd [release]
git clone https://github.com/quic-yocto/meta-qcom-qim-product-sdk -b [meta-qcom-qim-product-sdk release tag] layers/meta-qcom-qim-product-sdk

Note: Find the latest meta-qcom-qim-product-sdk release tag names at https://github.com/quic-yocto/meta-qcom-qim-product-sdk/tags

Examples

To download the qcom-6.6.38-QLI.1.2-Ver.1.1_qim-product-sdk-1.1.2 release tag

git clone https://github.com/quic-yocto/meta-qcom-qim-product-sdk -b qcom-6.6.38-QLI.1.2-Ver.1.1_qim-product-sdk-1.1.2 layers/meta-qcom-qim-product-sdk

Build Yocto Project BSP plus Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia Product SDK

export SHELL=/bin/bash
export EXTRALAYERS="meta-qcom-qim-product-sdk"
MACHINE=qcs6490-rb3gen2-vision-kit DISTRO=qcom-wayland source setup-environment

Run the following command to compile and generate flashable image with Yocto Project BSP plus QIM Product SDK layers

bitbake qcom-multimedia-image

Image output path: $[release]/build-qcom-wayland/tmp-glibc/deploy/images/qcm6490/qcom-multimedia-image.

To generate QIM Product SDK artifacts

bitbake qcom-qim-product-sdk

QIM Product SDK output path: $[release]/build-qcom-wayland/tmp-glibc/deploy/qim_prod_sdk_artifacts.

Flash image

To flash the generated build, see the Flash images

Generate Standard SDK and Extensible SDK for Standalone Application Development

To start Developer’s application development journey, Yocto project offering two different SDK’s (Standard SDK and extensible SDK) with including cross-development tool chains, libraries, headers, and symbols specific to the image to empower the developers. The Standard SDK is suitable for straightforward cross-compilation tasks, while the eSDK extends the capabilities to more complex workflows, making it a valuable choice for developers who need additional flexibility and functionality. To generate Standard SDK and eSDK for qcom-multimedia-image, please use following commands.

Standard SDK:

bitbake -c do_populate_sdk qcom-multimedia-image

Standard SDK output path : [release]/build-qcom-wayland/tmp-glibc/deploy/sdk/qcom-wayland-x86_64-qcom-multimedia-image-armv8-2a-qcs6490-rb3gen2-vision-kit-toolchain-1.0.sh

Extensible SDK:

bitbake -c do_populate_sdk_ext qcom-multimedia-image

Extensible SDK output path : [release]/build-qcom-wayland/tmp-glibc/deploy/sdk/qcom-wayland-x86_64-qcom-multimedia-image-armv8-2a-qcs6490-rb3gen2-vision-kit-toolchain-ext-1.0.sh

Reference

Standard Yocto environment

QCOM Linux Yocto BSP releases

Maintainer(s)

1. Chandra Bothsa [email protected]
2. Gautam Naidu Bodala [email protected]