Diamond Systems JACKSON-ER

Small Jetson carriers usually come with commercial connectors, which suit the lab but can loosen in a robot or vehicle exposed to constant shock and vibration. The Diamond Systems JACKSON-ER series is a rugged mini carrier board for the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Orin Nano, with latching I/O connectors throughout, built for deeply embedded designs where shock and vibration pose risks.

Every JACKSON-ER has two Gigabit Ethernet ports, one from the module and one from an Intel I210, three USB 3.2 ports and one USB 2.0 port, HDMI 2.0a/b with audio, one RS-232/422/485 port and one RS-232 or UART port, one CAN 2.0 port and 16 GPIO configurable for 3.3 or 5 V. An 80-pin camera connector carries eight CSI lanes, with adapter boards for e-con Systems and Allied Vision cameras. Storage runs to an M.2 M-key 2280 or 2242 NVMe socket on four PCIe Gen 3 lanes, which the Orin NX and Orin Nano need because they have no on-module storage, alongside an M.2 E-key 2230 socket, a full-size minicard socket with nano SIM and a daughterboard expansion connector with PCIe and USB 3.

The range has three models. The JAXER-BB01 is the baseboard without a module, heat spreader or fan sink, and takes the Orin NX 16GB or 8GB and the Orin Nano 8GB or 4GB. The JAXER-ASY-ONX16 is the assembly with the Orin NX 16GB at up to 100 TOPS, and the JAXER-ASY-ONA8 the assembly with the Orin Nano 8GB at up to 40 TOPS. Each assembly ships with an NVMe SSD and Linux installed, and cooling is a build option, a heat spreader (ordering suffix -HSP) for fanless mounting to an enclosure wall or a fan sink (-HSK) with a 5 V fan.

All JACKSON-ER boards take 7-20 V DC on a latching connector and are rated from -25 to +80 °C, matching the Jetson modules. Diamond provides a JetPack 6.2 board support package, and the boards are RoHS compliant. Typical JACKSON-ER installations include autonomous mobile robots, drones, vehicle-mounted vision and mobile machines. Diamond Systems also makes the commercial-connector Jackson carrier and the JetBox-Jackson fanless computer, so a design can move between board and box. We supply the assemblies configured, with module, storage, cooling and JetPack image fitted and tested.