Yuan AIR6N0-C-MB NX NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Orin Nano Compact Carrier Board with 8-Lane MIPI CSI-2

Vision builds inside small housings often have room for the module and little else, so every millimetre of carrier matters. The AIR6N0-C-MB NX is the base build of the YUAN AIR6N0-C-MB NX carrier board, a business-card-size board with no expansion board fitted, sized for camera heads, handheld units and small enclosures.

It takes the Jetson Orin NX 16GB or 8GB Super module at 157 or 117 TOPS, or the Orin Nano 8GB or 4GB Super at 67 or 34 TOPS. The Orin NX pairs a 1024-core NVIDIA Ampere GPU with 32 Tensor Cores and a 6- or 8-core Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU, and can encode one 4K60 or six 1080p60 streams in AV1 or H.265. On the Orin Nano the M.2 slots run at PCIe Gen3 and video encoding falls to the CPU cores, so the Orin NX is usually the better fit for multi-stream recording.

The AIR6N0-C-MB NX has Mini DisplayPort 1.4, one Gigabit Ethernet port and a USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C port with device mode. Eight MIPI CSI-2 lanes (D-PHY 2.1) on a 90-pin connector take MIPI cameras or a capture card directly. Two M.2 2230 slots give Key M at PCIe Gen4 x2 for NVMe and Key E at Gen4 x1 for wireless, and headers add USB 2.0, GPIO, I2C, a UART and a 5 V fan supply. A custom connector carries two USB 3.2 Gen2 ports, PCIe Gen3 x4, CAN and serial lines, so an expansion board such as the AIR6N0-C-MB NX IO or AIR6N0-C-MB NX 12G-SDI can be added later.

The AIR6N0-C-MB NX takes 12-36 V DC and is rated from 0 to +60 °C with airflow (storage -20 to +80 °C), with CE and FCC marks and JetPack 6.2 or later. YUAN’s QCAP SDK handles capture, recording and RTSP, SRT or WebRTC streaming, and the QDEEP SDK adds detection, segmentation, OCR and licence plate recognition models.