Arduino Apps built on UNO Q or VENTUNO Q run on certified SOMs.
Each badge is valid for 24 months. Re-certification is triggered only by major OS or chipset changes.
A huge active community makes this a vastly credible SOM certification.
Pick your Qualcomm Dragonwing™ hardware target and the certification tier that best supports your application.
Being an official partner makes you visible to 33M+ developers globally.
Set your SOM apart in a crowded competitive landscape.
Reduce customer integration time from weeks to hours.
A known-good software stack cuts post-sale support incidents by design.
Lorenzo Veltroni, Chief Product and Marketing Officer, SECO.
Samuel Imgrueth, CEO, Toradex.
Develop on UNO Q or VENTUNO Q, then deploy the exact same App Release to a certified SOM – no recompilation, no BSP hunting, no driver debugging. The bundle carries compiled code, dependencies, and AI models frozen at build time.
A certified board is validated against real App Releases, so the software behavior is pre-defined and reproducible. That’s what turns “compatible on paper” into a deployment your customers can trust – and fewer support tickets for you.
Essential compatibility
Minimum viable platform for Arduino App Lab compatibility
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Production-grade
Full-featured platform: production-grade compatibility across all App Lab capabilities
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Select your platform and tier, submit the Certification Submission Form, and declare your hardware and software capabilities.
Submit your design docs and compliance matrix. Arduino returns written feedback and a gap list.
Run the Arduino Functional Test Suite against your declared capabilities and submit a signed test report.
Receive your Core or Extended badge, partner directory listing, and co-branding rights, valid for 24 months.
Certification is free for SOM partners. There are no enrollment fees, no functional-testing fees, and no royalties on certified products. Directory listing and Arduino co-marketing are included. Extended engineering support is available as an optional paid tier on request, for partners who want expedited review or deeper integration assistance consideration.
Certification is self-service: you run the Arduino Functional Test Suite against your declared capabilities and submit a signed test report at Stage 3. Testing covers OS/Docker, the MCU bridge (Extended tier), camera (MIPI-CSI), audio, and AI/NPU models where declared. Arduino reviews the report and issues written pass/fail results per declared capability, and reserves the right to audit-sample submitted reports.
An App Release is a complete, frozen snapshot of an Arduino application – designed as a single, immutable package that bundles everything needed to install and run the app on any compatible certified device:
- Compiled sketch and manifest, plus all dependencies (Docker Compose, Python environment)
- AI models frozen at build time for reproducibility
- Release notes packaged in, with rollback to any earlier version
It installs via the Arduino App CLI, which checks device compatibility automatically and runs each app isolated in its own container.
Each badge is valid for 24 months. Re-certification is triggered only by a major change: a kernel major-version upgrade affecting declared drivers, a change of SoC family or stepping, upstream driver changes for a declared peripheral, or moving from Core to Extended. Minor OS updates, App CLI updates, and cosmetic hardware revisions do not trigger re-certification.
The partner provides all drivers, kernel configuration, and device tree for the declared peripherals, and all kernel drivers must be actively maintained. Arduino does not provide custom Linux BSPs. Your board must match or exceed the minimum hardware spec of its target platform (UNO Q or VENTUNO Q) and be compatible with the Qualcomm® Linux® (QLI) software stack.
Self-certification support is free and includes guidance during enrollment and architecture review, access to the Functional Test Suite and reference apps, and written feedback at each gate. The partner is responsible for supporting its own end customers post-certification – troubleshooting, warranty, and field-issue resolution for its SOMs. Arduino is not a customer-support channel for partner devices.
Core is the minimum viable platform for Arduino App Lab compatibility: an MPU built to run Linux with GPU/NPU drivers, Docker, the App CLI and Arduino Router, hardware-vendor native libraries, GPIO, and TCP/IP connectivity.
Extended is structured to add production-grade peripheral support: a real-time MCU (Zephyr + Arduino Core) over an MCU–MPU interface, Wi-Fi + Bluetooth, camera, audio in/out, display, and CANbus. You decide the tier that fits your product, and certification tests only what you declare.
Fill out the form below to express your interest, and the Works with Arduino team will contact you as soon as possible. Early submission is recommended: Arduino can provide compatibility feedback before you commit to hardware investment.
Certified SOMs let your customers scale to production while preserving their software investment – compatible Arduino Apps port across with zero code changes, backed by each partner’s industrial-grade hardware, software, and long-term lifecycle support. Current collaborations include::
SECO — SOM-SMARC-Dragonwing-IQ8: a standards-based SMARC® Rel. 2.1.1 module on the Dragonwing IQ8, with SECO’s Clea OS and Application Hub for security-focused OTA updates and fleet-scale device management.
Toradex — Aquila IQ8: a module in Toradex’s Aquila family on the Dragonwing IQ8, delivered with the Torizon platform and Toradex’s lifecycle support for long-lived industrial products.
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