Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 Mobile Hardware Development Kit
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Start prototyping your next round of innovations in AI, game play, image/video capture and Wi-Fi 7 on the Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 mobile hardware development kit (HDK). It’s a comprehensive, expandable kit for developing and evaluating on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform.
The HDK exposes the top-of-the-line AI capabilities of the mobile platform, including improvements to the Qualcomm® AI Engine. You’ll be able to offer intuitive experiences like faster natural language processing with multi-language translation and transcription. And you can equip your apps with features like AI-assisted cinematic video capture, direct voice command and AI bots for gaming.
Use this Android T/13-based, single-board computer for open-frame access to the features of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform. The kit allows manufacturers, hardware vendors and software developers to implement and test on Wi-Fi 7 (compliant with 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be) with the Qualcomm® FastConnect™ 7800 Mobile Connectivity System at up to 5.8 Gbps. For image capture, the kit exposes the Qualcomm Spectra™ ISP, supporting 18-bit triple Cognitive image signal processors (ISPs). It’s always-sensing camera with AI enhances Snapdragon Sight™ features including Bokeh Engine 2, real-time semantic segmentation for photo/video capture and up to 5x larger file sizes for professional quality.
The main components of the kit include:
- Qualcomm® Kryo™ CPU
- Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU
- Qualcomm AI Engine with Qualcomm® Hexagon™ digital signal processor
- Qualcomm Spectra ISP
- Snapdragon Elite Gaming™ Features
- Qualcomm Aqstic™ smart speaker amplifier
- 12GB LPDDR5 PoP memory and 256GB UFS4.0 storage
Connectors, ports and accessories available with the kit include:
- Connectivity
- FastConnect 7800
- Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be), Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), Wi-Fi 6E, 802.11ac Wave 2, 802.11a/b/g/n
- 2x2 antenna configuration
- Bluetooth® 5.3 + BLE and backward compatible with Bluetooth 1.x, 2.x + EDR
- NFC card connector reserved
- I/O interfaces
- M.2 Mkey
- HDMI 2.0
- 1x USB 3.1 Type C
- 1x USB 2.0 micro-B (UART)
- 1x SIM card
- 6x MIPI CSI with support for 3D camera configuration
- 2x 4-lane MIPI DSI or 2x 3-Trio MIPI DSI
- 1x microSD/UFS card
- Expansion headers for additional features
- Headset
- Sensor input/output
- Audio input/output
- Optional accessories
- Display and expansion board: 6.8” FHD + 1080 x 2400 144Hz panel
- Camera daughter card: 64MP + 50MP + 13MP + Time-of-Flight

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