Forecr DSBOARD-ORNX NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Orin Nano Industrial Carrier Boards

Orin NX and Orin Nano designs often need more camera inputs and industrial I/O than a developer kit offers, without growing beyond a 100 x 100 mm footprint or adding a breakout board for serial and CAN. The Forecr DSBOARD-ORNX series is an industrial carrier board for the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Orin Nano modules, built for that brief.

Camera input is the main difference from a developer kit, and it is where most Orin vision designs run short. Four FPC connectors, two 22-pin 0.5 mm for 4-lane cameras and two 15-pin 1.0 mm for 2-lane cameras, give 2x 4-lane or 4x 2-lane MIPI CSI-2 set by a DIP switch. GMSL2 is not on the carrier; Forecr sells an eight-channel GMSL2 add-on board for Orin NX systems. Storage runs to two M.2 Key-M NVMe slots (2280 at PCIe x4 and 2230 at PCIe x1), with M.2 Key-E for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and M.2 Key-B with nano-SIM for LTE or 5G.

The range has five variants. The DSBOARD-ORNX-AA is the board without a module. The DSBOARD-ORNX-AB16 and DSBOARD-ORNX-AB8 ship with the Orin NX 16GB and 8GB, at 100 and 70 TOPS. The DSBOARD-ORNX-AC8 and DSBOARD-ORNX-AC4 ship with the Orin Nano 8GB and 4GB, at 40 and 20 TOPS. The carrier and its I/O are identical across the range, so a design can move between modules as the workload becomes clear.

A 14-pin terminal carries the CAN bus, one RS232 and one RS422 port as separate interfaces, two digital inputs rated 12-24 V and two low-side digital outputs, next to GbE, two USB 3.1 Type-A ports, a microUSB recovery port and HDMI 2.0 at 3840 x 2160. Expansion headers add SPI, I2S and I2C for sensors, and a 5 V fan header supports active cooling of the module. The DSBOARD-ORNX boards take 9-28 V DC and are rated from -25 to +85 °C, with JetPack 5.x and 6.x. Forecr’s change notice moves the board to Rev 2.0 from 1 October 2026, with a 9-32 V DC input, a -40 to +85 °C rating, CAN FD and Orin NX Super Mode support, which lifts the Orin NX 16GB to 157 TOPS.