Diamond Systems JAXER-ASY-ONA8 NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 8GB Rugged Mini Carrier Board with 16 GPIO, Latching I/O and Wide Temperature

Not every rugged AI job needs the largest module, and many robot and vehicle controllers run a few camera streams alongside plenty of digital I/O. The JAXER-ASY-ONA8 is the Orin Nano 8GB assembly in the Diamond Systems JACKSON-ER series, a rugged mini carrier board with latching connectors, supplied with the module, storage and Linux installed.

NVIDIA rates the Jetson Orin Nano 8GB module at up to 40 TOPS, which suits object detection, barcode and label reading, and sensor-driven control at lower power than the Orin NX. The assembly ships with an NVMe SSD and a Linux image installed, as the Orin Nano has no on-module storage. Cooling is chosen at order, as JAXER-ASY-ONA8-HSP with a heat spreader for fanless mounting to an enclosure wall, or JAXER-ASY-ONA8-HSK with a heat sink and 5 V fan.

The board has two Gigabit Ethernet ports, one from the module and one from an Intel I210, three USB 3.2 ports with USB 2.0 fallback and one USB 2.0 port, and HDMI 2.0a/b with audio. Serial covers one jumper-configurable RS-232/422/485 port and one RS-232 or logic-level UART port, with one CAN 2.0 port and 16 GPIO configurable for 3.3 or 5 V and pull-up or pull-down, all on latching connectors. Storage and expansion run to an M.2 M-key 2280 or 2242 NVMe socket on four PCIe Gen 3 lanes, an M.2 E-key 2230 socket, a full-size minicard socket with a nano SIM socket, and a daughterboard expansion connector with PCIe and USB 3 links, which shares a lane with the second Ethernet port.

Power is 7-20 V DC on a latching connector, and the JAXER-ASY-ONA8 is rated from -25 to +80 °C. The JAXER-ASY-ONX16 carries the Orin NX 16GB at up to 100 TOPS on the same board, and the JAXER-BB01 is the board without a module. We supply the JAXER-ASY-ONA8 configured, with the module and cooling fitted, the JetPack image loaded and the assembly tested before delivery.