Diamond Systems FLOYD NVIDIA Jetson Nano, Xavier NX and TX2 NX Vision Carrier Boards

Jetson Nano and Xavier NX developer kits make a quick start for vision work, but a deployed system usually needs more cameras, serial ports and wide DC power than the kit provides. The Diamond Systems FLOYD series is a family of vision carrier boards that turns the NVIDIA Jetson Nano, Xavier NX and TX2 NX modules into embedded computers, with the camera inputs that most Jetson imaging designs depend on.

Every FLOYD board brings out three 4-lane MIPI CSI-2 camera connectors, one USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 Type-A ports, eight 3.3 V GPIO lines, a microSD slot and an M.2 2280 NVMe socket. The module sits on a 260-pin SO-DIMM connector, so the same carrier can host a Jetson Nano at 472 GFLOPS or a Xavier NX at 21 TOPS as the workload becomes clear. Diamond Systems provides a Linux BSP based on NVIDIA JetPack, and heat sink and fan sink accessories for the module. A fan connector with tachometer and PWM control supports active cooling, and a 2 x 10 utility header brings out recovery, power, reset, I2C, SPI and a debug UART for development.

The range comes on two carriers. The full-feature BB01 has two Gigabit Ethernet ports with PoE+ for IP cameras, two HDMI 2.0 outputs, a full-size Mini PCIe socket, two RS-232/422/485 ports and a CAN 2.0B port with the Xavier NX; the lower-cost BB02 has one GbE port, one HDMI output, one RS-232 and one RS-232/485 port, and gives its M.2 socket a full PCIe x4 link. The FLD-BB01 and FLD-BB02 are the carriers supplied without a module. The FLD-NAO-FS-01 and FLD-NAO-FS-02 ship with the Jetson Nano installed, programmed and fitted with a fan sink, and the FLD-XNX-FS-01 and FLD-XNX-FS-02 do the same with the Xavier NX.

FLOYD boards take 12-24 V DC and Diamond Systems rates them from -25 to +80 °C, in line with the Jetson Nano and Xavier NX modules. They suit inspection cells, robots, PoE camera hubs and other edge AI builds that need several cameras on one Jetson. Diamond Systems sells FLOYD at four levels of integration: the bare carrier, the carrier with the module installed and programmed, a system kit, and a complete JetBox-FLOYD enclosed computer with the module and OS ready to run.