Diamond Systems ZIGGY NVIDIA Jetson TX2 and TX2i Mini Carrier Boards

A Jetson TX2 developer kit is far larger than the module itself, which makes it hard to carry an evaluation design straight into a small enclosure. The Diamond Systems ZIGGY series is a family of mini carrier boards for the NVIDIA Jetson TX2 and TX2i that matches the module footprint, so the carrier adds no width or length to the build.

Every ZIGGY board brings out the Jetson I/O that most vision and AI designs use: one 4-lane MIPI CSI-2 camera input, one Gigabit Ethernet port on RJ-45, one HDMI output, one USB 3.0 and one USB 2.0 Type-A port, a micro USB port with OTG and two RS-232 serial ports. Diamond Systems supplies a complete Linux BSP with support for all on-board I/O, built on Ubuntu 16.04 with Linux kernel 4.4.38, and a utility header brings out I2C, UART, SPI and reset signals. The board takes 9-18 V DC with the TX2 or 5.5-18 V DC with the TX2i, and the module mounts underneath with its thermal plate facing out for a heat sink or cold plate.

The range has two variants, both supplied without a module. The ZIG-BB01 is the standard model, with a data acquisition circuit giving six 12-bit analog inputs at up to 1 MSPS, two 12-bit analog outputs and 12 digital I/O lines, plus Diamond’s driver library and GUI control program. The ZIG-BB02 leaves out the data acquisition circuit for designs that take their sensor data over the network or USB. Both versions share the same size and connector layout, so a design can be developed on the ZIG-BB01 and move to the ZIG-BB02 for production if the analog channels turn out not to be needed.

Diamond Systems rates the ZIGGY mini carrier boards from -40 to +85 °C; the Jetson TX2 is rated from -25 to +80 °C and the TX2i from -40 to +85 °C, so the TX2i suits builds that must run across the full range. Diamond’s manual states the boards are designed to meet MIL-STD-202G shock and vibration conditions. ZIGGY suits AI evaluation, robotics, sensor monitoring and small vision systems, and it is the board inside Diamond’s ZIGGYBOX enclosed computer.