Neousys PCIe-NX156 AI Frame Grabber Cards with Jetson Orin NX and Six USB 3.2 Ports

AOI systems built on 19-inch rack-mount or off-the-shelf box PCs often run USB cameras, and adding deep-learning inspection to them usually needs more host resources than the system has. The Neousys PCIe-NX156 series answers with a family of AI frame grabber cards that each carry an NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX module and six USB 3.2 camera ports on a single-slot, half-length PCIe card, so the AI runs where the cameras connect.

Two USB 3.2 Gen2 ports run at 10 Gbps and four USB 3.2 Gen1 ports at 5 Gbps, all on Type-A connectors. Each port supplies up to 1500 mA, with a user-configurable 900 mA or 1500 mA current limit and software-programmable power on/off per port. The card sits in a PCIe x4 slot and communicates with the host over Gen2 x1 signals at 2.5 Gb/s total bandwidth. Image capture, pre-processing and inference all run on the card while using minimal host resources. The Jetson Orin NX pairs an Ampere GPU and Arm Cortex CPU with LPDDR5 at 3200 MHz, bundled with JetPack, and Neousys rates the series at 100 INT8 TOPS from 1024 CUDA cores, 32 Tensor cores and 2 NVDLA engines. One RS-232 and one isolated RS-485 port sit on the card.

The two builds differ in module memory, and each ships with a 128GB NVMe SSD holding a pre-installed system image, fitted in an M.2 2242 M key socket at PCIe Gen4 x2. The PCIe-NX156-JON8 carries the Jetson Orin NX 8GB. The PCIe-NX156-JON16 carries the Orin NX 16GB for models that need more memory. USB ports, host link and mechanical design are the same on both.

The cards operate from -25 to 60 °C with airflow in 20W TDP mode, without throttling at 60 °C, and a wide-temperature NVMe is needed below 0 °C or above 60 °C. Storage is -40 to 85 °C at 10 to 90% humidity, non-condensing. Each card measures 167.7 x 111 mm and weighs 0.4 kg. Further ports include Gigabit Ethernet, two USB 2.0, micro USB OTG, a 4K60 DisplayPort and a 12 V DC input for standalone development or loads above 66 W. Both builds work with Windows and Linux hosts and carry CE and FCC Class A to EN 55032 and EN 55035. Neousys names package inspection, object sorting, surface defect detection, assembly verification and robotic guidance.