At the 2023 NVIDIA GTC, NVIDIA released the upgraded version of the Jetson NANO development kit: the Jetson Orin NANO development kit.
After a month, we finally got our hands on this development board.
Let’s unbox it together.
Please keep all accessories and packaging for at least a year, as NVIDIA offers a one-year warranty. If you encounter quality issues during the warranty period, you will need to return the product in its original packaging. This is very important for developers, so please remember this.
Unlike the Jetson NANO based on NVIDIA’s Maxwell architecture, the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NANO development kit is a GPU development board based on the Ampere architecture, with 1024 NVIDIA CUDA cores and 32 Tensor cores. At the same time, the development board is equipped with a 6-core Arm Cortex-A78AE v8.2 64-bit CPU, 8GB 128-bit LPDDR5 memory, and a bandwidth of 68GB/s, providing excellent computing performance.
Compared to the Jetson NANO, which has only 472 GFLOPS AI performance, the Jetson Orin NANO development kit achieves 40TOPS, which is significantly higher than the 20TOPS AI performance of the Jetson Xavier NX!
Like the previously released Jetson Xavier NX development kit (now discontinued), the Jetson Orin NANO development kit supports various storage methods and can be expanded through the microSD card slot and external NVMe M.2 Key M storage.
You can clearly see that the module in the development kit has a microSD card slot. This is different from the Orin NANO module sold separately by NVIDIA, which does not have a microSD card slot.
The development kit supports two MIPI CSI-2 22-pin camera connectors. You can see that this connector is different from the MIPI CSI interface of the Jetson NANO development kit, so the CSI camera that works with the Jetson NANO cannot be directly used on this development kit. We will have a separate article to introduce this later.
Now let’s take a look at the front interface, which has a DP interface for connecting displays, four USB 3.1 Type A ports, a Gigabit Ethernet port, and a USB-C port (note that this port is for data transfer, not for power supply).
On the far left is the DC power supply, and the kit comes with a 19V power supply and power cord.
Like the Jetson NANO development kit, this development board also has a 40-pin expansion header (UART, SPI, I2S, I2C, GPIO), which is an important interface for connecting the Jetson Orin Nano development kit to various peripherals, allowing for the expansion of device functionality and application scope, such as external sensors, actuators, etc.
Finally, looking at the bottom of the board, there is an M.2 Key E interface, already connected to a wireless network card, so this board can connect to the internet wirelessly. There are two M.2 Key M interfaces for storage expansion; I have already connected an SSD to it, but it does not come with an SSD out of the box!
In summary, the Jetson Orin NANO development kit is a powerful development board that offers excellent computing and storage performance, while supporting various interfaces and expansion methods, making it very suitable for developing embedded systems and IoT applications.
Please stay tuned for our upcoming articles!