Yuan AIR6N0-C-MB NX 4xUSB3.2 NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Orin Nano Compact Carrier Board with 4x USB 3.2 Ports

USB cameras are often the quickest way to put several viewpoints on one inference box, but a small carrier usually offers one or two ports. The AIR6N0-C-MB NX 4xUSB3.2 pairs YUAN’s AIR6N0-C-MB NX mini carrier board with a four-port USB expansion board on the same footprint.

It takes the Jetson Orin NX 16GB or 8GB Super module at 157 or 117 TOPS, or the Orin Nano 8GB or 4GB Super at 67 or 34 TOPS. The Orin NX pairs a 1024-core NVIDIA Ampere GPU with 32 Tensor Cores and a 6- or 8-core Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU, and can encode one 4K60 or six 1080p60 streams in AV1 or H.265. On the Orin Nano the M.2 slots run at PCIe Gen3 and video encoding falls to the CPU cores, so the Orin NX is usually the better fit for multi-stream recording.

The expansion board on the AIR6N0-C-MB NX 4xUSB3.2 has four USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A ports at 5 Gbps, a microSD slot, an 8-pin Phoenix connector with RS232, GPIO and I2C, and 2x 6-pin headers with RS485, three GPIO and a second I2C bus. The RS232 port shares its UART with the carrier’s 6-pin wafer. The carrier itself keeps a USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C port, Mini DisplayPort 1.4, Gigabit Ethernet, eight MIPI CSI-2 lanes and two M.2 2230 slots for NVMe and wireless. Where an M.2 2280 drive matters more than USB ports, the AIR6N0-C-MB NX IO is the better fit.

The AIR6N0-C-MB NX 4xUSB3.2 takes 12-36 V DC and is rated from 0 to +60 °C with airflow (storage -20 to +80 °C), with CE and FCC marks and JetPack 6.2 or later. YUAN’s QCAP SDK handles capture, recording and RTSP, SRT or WebRTC streaming, and the QDEEP SDK adds detection, segmentation, OCR and license plate recognition models.