Diamond Systems FLOYD : FLD-NAO-FS-01 NVIDIA Jetson Nano Vision Carrier Board with Dual PoE+ GbE and Fan Sink

Camera-heavy Jetson Nano builds often run out of inputs on a developer kit long before they run out of compute. The FLD-NAO-FS-01 pairs the NVIDIA Jetson Nano module with the full-feature Diamond Systems FLOYD vision carrier board, with the module installed, programmed and fitted with a fan sink.

The Jetson Nano brings a quad-core Arm Cortex-A57 CPU at 1.43 GHz and a 128-core Maxwell GPU rated at 472 GFLOPS, which suits imaging and inference work on a small number of streams. Three 4-lane MIPI CSI-2 camera connectors take local cameras, and both Gigabit Ethernet ports can power PoE+ IP cameras when a 50-57 V supply is connected to the PoE input. Where more AI headroom is needed, the FLD-XNX-FS-01 fits the Xavier NX module to the same carrier at 21 TOPS.

The FLD-NAO-FS-01 uses the BB01 carrier, so it has the complete FLOYD I/O set: two HDMI 2.0 outputs, one USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 Type-A ports (one with OTG), two RS-232/422/485 serial ports and eight 3.3 V GPIO lines on a 2 x 10 header. A full-size Mini PCIe socket takes PCIe or USB cards, and an M.2 2280 socket runs an NVMe SSD at PCIe x1 next to the microSD slot. The carrier’s CAN port is active only with the Xavier NX module, so this Nano build has no CAN bus.

Power comes in at 12-24 V DC, and Diamond Systems rates FLOYD from -25 to +80 °C, the same range as the Jetson Nano module. The board runs a Linux BSP based on NVIDIA JetPack. For a faster storage path instead of PoE, the FLD-NAO-FS-02 puts the Nano on the lower-cost BB02 carrier with a PCIe x4 link to the M.2 socket.