Diamond Systems JACKSON : JAX-BB01 NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Orin Nano Small Form Factor Carrier Board, Supplied Without Module

Orin NX and Orin Nano projects often start on a developer kit and then need a smaller board with industrial connectors and room for custom I/O. The JAX-BB01 is the Diamond Systems JACKSON small form factor carrier board for the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Orin Nano, supplied without a module.

The JAX-BB01 takes the Orin NX 16GB and 8GB, at 100 and 70 TOPS, and the Orin Nano 8GB and 4GB, at 40 and 20 TOPS; the board detects the module and supplies the right input voltage. 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, JAX-ASY-ONX8 and JAX-ASY-ONA8 are this board with a module, fan sink and NVMe SSD already fitted.

The JAX-BB01 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. Because every interface on the JAX-BB01 comes out to a connector or socket, a design can add extra Ethernet, USB or a PoE PD circuit on a daughterboard rather than a full custom carrier.