Diamond Systems JACKSON : JAX-ASY-ONX8 NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 8GB Small Form Factor Carrier Board with Two 4-Lane CSI Connectors

Running two or three AI models side by side is usually where the Orin Nano runs short and the Orin NX 8GB becomes the practical choice. The JAX-ASY-ONX8 is the Diamond Systems JACKSON small form factor carrier board with the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 8GB module installed and programmed with a Linux OS based on NVIDIA JetPack, with a fan sink and a 128GB M.2 2280 NVMe SSD.

The Orin NX 8GB delivers 70 TOPS from a 1024-core NVIDIA Ampere GPU with 32 Tensor Cores and a 6-core Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU, with 8 GB of 128-bit LPDDR5, in a 10 W to 20 W power range. Two 4-lane MIPI CSI-2 camera connectors suit stereo or dual-camera vision, with Diamond adapter boards for e-con Systems and Allied Vision cameras. The JAX-ASY-ONX16 steps up to the Orin NX 16GB at 100 TOPS, and the JAX-ASY-ONA8 drops to the Orin Nano 8GB.

The JAX-ASY-ONX8 has two Gigabit Ethernet ports on RJ-45, three USB 3.2 and one USB 2.0 ports, HDMI 2.0a/b with audio, one RS-232/485 and one RS-232 serial port, one CAN 2.0 port and 16 GPIO lines at 3.3 or 5 V. An M.2 M-key socket takes a 2280 or 2242 NVMe SSD on four PCIe lanes, which matters because the Orin NX and Orin Nano modules have no eMMC. A full-size minicard socket with PCIe, USB and a SIM socket and an M.2 E-key 2230 socket take modem, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules, and a flex-cable expansion connector carries PCIe, USB 3.0, I2C and power to a daughterboard mounted underneath; the second GbE port and the expansion connector share one PCIe lane, so a design uses one or the other.

The small JACKSON board takes 7-20 V DC, feeding the Orin Nano its fixed 5 V or the Orin NX its wider input through on-board load switches. Diamond rates it from -25 to +80 °C, matching the Orin modules. The fan sink supplied with the JAX-ASY-ONX8 connects to the on-board fan header for active cooling of the module.