Diamond Systems JAXER-BB01 NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Orin Nano Rugged Mini Carrier Board with Latching I/O, Supplied Without Module

Robots and vehicle systems put Jetson carriers through shock and vibration that commercial connectors are not designed for. The JAXER-BB01 is the baseboard of the Diamond Systems JACKSON-ER series, a rugged mini carrier board for the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Orin Nano with latching I/O connectors throughout, supplied without a module, heat spreader or fan sink.

The JAXER-BB01 accepts the Orin NX 16GB and 8GB and the Orin Nano 8GB and 4GB, and Diamond publishes Linux OS images for both module families based on JetPack 6.2. Because these modules have no on-board storage, an NVMe SSD in the M.2 M-key socket holds the operating system. The camera connector carries eight CSI lanes, as two quad-lane or four dual-lane streams, with adapter boards for e-con Systems and Allied Vision cameras.

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-BB01 is rated from -25 to +80 °C, matching the Jetson modules. It ships with neither heat spreader nor fan sink, so the thermal design is part of the build. The JAXER-ASY-ONX16 and JAXER-ASY-ONA8 are complete assemblies with the module, NVMe SSD and Linux installed, with a heat spreader or fan sink. The board is RoHS compliant.