Diamond Systems FLOYD : FLD-XNX-FS-02 NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX Vision Carrier Board with 4-Lane PCIe NVMe and Fan Sink

Xavier NX projects that record or log a lot of data locally often care more about storage throughput than about PoE. The FLD-XNX-FS-02 fits the NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX module to the BB02 version of the Diamond Systems FLOYD vision carrier board, installed, programmed and fitted with a fan sink.

The Xavier NX combines a 6-core NVIDIA Carmel Arm v8.2 CPU with a 384-core Volta GPU, 48 Tensor Cores and two deep learning accelerators, rated at 21 TOPS (INT8) at 15 W. All three 4-lane MIPI CSI-2 camera connectors stay on this build, so it can run inference on several local cameras. For lighter workloads on the same I/O, the FLD-NAO-FS-02 fits the Jetson Nano instead.

The BB02 carrier leaves out the PCIe switch used for the extra I/O on BB01, so the FLD-XNX-FS-02 gives its M.2 2280 socket a full PCIe x4 link, which can raise NVMe read and write speeds. The trade-off is one Gigabit Ethernet port without PoE, one HDMI 2.0 output, no Mini PCIe socket and no CAN bus. One USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 Type-A ports, a microSD slot, eight 3.3 V GPIO lines and two serial ports (one RS-232 and one RS-232/485) complete the I/O.

The FLD-XNX-FS-02 takes 12-24 V DC and Diamond Systems rates it from -25 to +80 °C. FLOYD is supported by a Linux BSP based on NVIDIA JetPack. If the design needs PoE+ cameras, CAN or a Mini PCIe card, the FLD-XNX-FS-01 fits the same module to the full-feature BB01 carrier.