Forecr DSBOARD-NX2 NVIDIA Jetson Nano, TX2 NX, and Xavier NX Industrial Carrier Boards

Existing products built on the Jetson Nano, TX2 NX or Xavier NX often need a few more carrier boards for spares or a final production run. The Forecr DSBOARD-NX2 series is a 100 x 100 mm industrial carrier board for those modules. Forecr lists the DSBOARD-NX2 as end-of-life, and we supply it while stock lasts.

Cameras connect to two 2-lane MIPI CSI-2 inputs on 15-pin 1.0 mm FPC connectors, which Forecr describes as Raspberry Pi camera compatible; there is no GMSL, and the block diagram also shows a USB 3.0 FPC connector for camera or peripheral use. The board carries one Gigabit Ethernet port, two USB 3.1 Type-A ports, HDMI 2.0 at 3840 x 2160, a software-configurable RS232/422/485 port, two digital inputs and three digital outputs. The CAN bus works with the Xavier NX and TX2 NX modules only, which matters when replacing a Nano-based unit in a vehicle or machine. A microUSB port handles recovery and a 3.3 V header provides the debug UART. Storage is the module’s 16 GB eMMC plus an M.2 Key-M 2280 NVMe slot and microSD, and M.2 Key-E and Key-B sockets with a SIM slot take Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LTE or 5G.

The range has four variants. The DSBOARD-NX2-AA is the board without a module. The DSBOARD-NX2-AB ships with the Jetson Nano for light vision tasks, the DSBOARD-NX2-AC with the Xavier NX at 21 TOPS for multi-model inference, and the DSBOARD-NX2-AD with the TX2 NX, which sits between the two. The CAN bus is available on the Xavier NX and TX2 NX builds.

The DSBOARD-NX2 boards take 9-28 V DC on a pluggable terminal and are rated from -25 to +85 °C, with a 5 V fan header. Forecr lists Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 with JetPack 4.x and 5.x, and JetPack 5.x runs on the Xavier NX only. Because the board is no longer made, it suits repairs, spares and final production runs of products already qualified on these modules. For new designs, the Orin NX and Orin Nano carrier boards in the Forecr range are the current route, and the DSBOARD-ORNX keeps the same 100 x 100 mm footprint.