Forecr MILBOARD-AGX-IND NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Industrial Rugged Carrier Board with Quad GbE, 8x UART and -40 to 85 °C

Cold starts, long service lives and vibration push a standard module outside its ratings long before the workload changes. The MILBOARD-AGX-IND fits the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Industrial to the Forecr MILBOARD-AGX rugged carrier board, the module NVIDIA rates for -40 to +85 °C operation.

The Industrial module delivers 248 TOPS from a 2048-core NVIDIA Ampere GPU with 64 Tensor Cores and a 12-core Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU, with 64 GB of memory and an operating life NVIDIA extends for industrial use. Where the site is less demanding, the MILBOARD-AGX-32GB fits the 32GB module at 200 TOPS and the MILBOARD-AGX-64GB the 64GB module at 275 TOPS on the same board.

On the MILBOARD-AGX-IND, a 240-pin Samtec high-speed connector carries four Gigabit Ethernet ports, two USB 3.2 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, an HDMI 2.0 output at up to 3840 x 2160, two CAN bus interfaces and eight UARTs with RTS and CTS from an on-board UART bridge, plus I2C and SPI. A Micro-USB debug port gives console access during bring-up. Cameras use a 120-pin Samtec camera connector that supports six CSI cameras through an adapter board; GMSL2 needs an add-on board, as the carrier has none. Storage is an M.2 Key-M 2280 NVMe slot with PCIe x4 and a full-size SD card slot.

Power is 12-30 V DC on a four-pin Molex connector, and the 150 x 140 mm board weighs 120 g and is rated from -40 to +85 °C, with an RTC, a temperature sensor and a 5 V fan header. Forecr lists Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 with JetPack 5.x and 6.x for AGX Orin. The MILBOARD-AGX-IND suits military vehicles, aerospace payloads and robotics at sites that see hard frost or high heat, where the Industrial module rating matters.