Forecr DSBOARD-THRMAX NVIDIA Jetson Thor T4000 and T5000 Compact Carrier Board

Humanoid robots and autonomous machines built on Jetson Thor generate camera and sensor data at a rate that ordinary gigabit ports and USB cannot carry, and their designers usually want the board to lock every cable in place. The Forecr DSBOARD-THRMAX series is a 140 x 125 mm carrier board for the NVIDIA Jetson T5000 and T4000 modules, built around a QSFP28 cage for 25GbE networking.

Cameras connect through a 120-pin Samtec camera expansion connector that carries 6x 2-lane or 4x 4-lane MIPI CSI-2 to an add-on card. GMSL2 is not on the carrier; Forecr’s eight-channel GMSL2 card fits that connector, alongside MIPI CSI-2 and analogue video cards. Display runs over two HDMI 2.1 ports and two DisplayPort 1.4 outputs on micro-coax, and two screw-lock USB 3.2 Type-C ports run at 10 Gbps, one of them doubling as the recovery port, with a separate USB 2.0 Type-C debug port. Storage uses an M.2 Key-M 2280 at PCIe Gen4 x4 and an M.2 Key-M 2242 at Gen4 x2, with M.2 Key-B plus nano-SIM for 5G and M.2 Key-E for Wi-Fi.

The range has two variants, split by the Jetson Thor module fitted. The DSBOARD-THRMAX-T5000 ships with the Jetson T5000 module and 128 GB of LPDDR5X, rated by Forecr at 2070 FP4 TFLOPS, with four 25GbE links from the QSFP28 cage and four CAN FD ports. The DSBOARD-THRMAX-T4000 ships with the Jetson T4000 and 64 GB; Forecr’s board manual lists three 25GbE links and CAN FD for T5000 builds only.

A 14-pin terminal carries RS-232/422/485, two digital inputs rated 11-60 V and three low-side outputs up to 60 V, and the board adds a TPM 2.0 chip, a 6-axis IMU and a temperature sensor. CAM power and expansion power outputs feed the camera and expansion boards directly. An expansion header adds I2C, I2S, SPI, two UART and two PWM lines, and optional expansion boards in the M.2 Key-M 2280 slot add four USB 3.0 Type-A ports and two HDMI 2.0 outputs. The DSBOARD-THRMAX boards take 18-36 V DC on locking connectors, use industrial-grade parts with X7R capacitors, have a 12 V fan connector, are rated from -40 to +85 °C, and run Ubuntu 24.04 with JetPack 7.x for robotics, autonomous systems, industrial automation and transport.