Developer kit creates entry-level AI-powered systems says Nvidia
Claimed to set a new standard for creating entry-level AI-powered robots, smart drones and intelligent vision systems, the Jetson Orin Nano developer kit has been introduced to support developers using the Jetson Orin Nano series modules.
The kit is compact, with numerous connectors and up to 40 TOPS of AI performance. It consists of a Jetson Orin Nano 8Gbyte module with an SD-card slot, a reference carrier board, preassembled heatsink/fan, a 19 V DC power supply, and an M.2-Key E based wireless networking module. In addition to the bootable microSD card slot, two M.2 Key-M NVMe sockets are provided on the underside of the carrier for high-speed storage.
It also includes a reference carrier board that can accommodate all Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano and Nvidia Jetson Orin NX modules.
The Jetson Orin Nano module features an Nvidia Ampere architecture GPU with 1024 CUDA cores, 32 third-generation Tensor cores and a six-core Arm CPU. These enable multiple concurrent AI application pipelines and high performance inference, said Nvidia. The developer kit carrier board boasts an array of connectors, including two MIPI CSI connectors supporting camera modules with up to four lanes.
While the earlier generation Jetson Nano developer kit made AI accessible to everyone, this Jetson Orin Nano developer kit raises the bar for entry-level AI development, claimed Nvidia, with 80 times the performance, enabling developers to run any kind of modern AI models, including transformer and advanced robotics models. Jetson Orin provides a boost in AI performance over the Jetson Nano with 5.4 times the CUDA compute, 6.6 times the CPU performance and 50 times the performance per Watt.
The Jetson Orin Nano developer kit runs the Nvidia AI software stack, with available use-case-specific application frameworks, including Isaac for robotics, DeepStream for vision AI and Riva for conversational AI. Omniverse Replicator is includes for synthetic data generation (SDG), and there is also the TAO Toolkit for fine-tuning pretrained AI models from NGC, Nvidia’s portal of enterprise services, software, management tools, and support for end-to-end AI and digital twin workflows.
