Introduction

NVIDIA IGX Orin™ Boards Kit is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform built to power Healthcare applications and industrial automation. Operational technology (OT) providers are transforming legacy architectures into self-driving factories. NVIDIA IGX Orin Boards Kit is a new category of industrial edge computing for applying AI, security, and functional safety to enable self-driving factories. NVIDIA IGX Orin Boards Kit is architected to be cloud native, secure, and to deliver functional safety with enterprise support.

This product specification details the architectural specifications for the NVIDIA IGX Orin Boards Kit. This is a modular design with multiple modules plugged in to the connectors of a motherboard. The motherboard is a standard micro ATX form factor. An NVIDIA IGX Orin Industrial Module provides the processing and AI performance. An NVIDIA BMC Module provides board management of the system. In addition, PCIe slots are available along with standard I/O.

The following modules provided in the NVIDIA IGX Orin Boards Kit.

  • NVIDIA Board Management Controller (BMC) Module: for board management

  • NVIDIA IGX Orin Industrial Module: NVIDIA Orin processor module

Note
  • The NVIDIA IGX Orin Boards Kit, after this, is referred to as “IGX Orin Board.”

  • The NVIDIA IGX Orin Industrial Module, after this, is referred to as ‘IGX Module’.

  • The NVIDIA BMC Module, after this, is referred to as ‘BMC Module’

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Figure 1-1. NVIDIA IGX Orin Board Major Components

IGX Orin hardware can be logically divided into three buckets:

  • BMC Module

  • IGX Orin Board (Motherboard) including SMCU and silicon-down NVIDIA® ConnectX®-7 IC

  • IGX Module: System on a Module (SOM)

IGX Orin Board is an open AI computing platform specifically designed for edge-based computing primarily targeted for industrial and medical device manufacturers as a white label product or directly into production environments. The system is designed around the IGX Module in a Micro ATX form factor. IGX Orin Board is an AI platform built to powerindustrial automation. Operational technology (OT) providers are transforming legacy architectures into self-driving factories. IGX Orin Board is a new category of industrial edge computing for applying AI, security, and functional safety to enable self-driving factories. IGX Orin Board is architected to be cloud native, secure, and to deliver functional safety with enterprise support.

The following table lists the features of the IGX Orin Board.

Features per Configuration

Feature

IGX Orin Board

NVIDIA SoC

NVIDIA Orin SoC

CPU SPECint_rate2006

233 (Projected performance)

AI Performance - INT8 Sparse TOPs

248

System RAM

64 GB LPDDR5 (3,200 MHz)

QSPI NOR Flash

64 MB NOR Boot Flash

eMMC

64 GB eMMC 5.1 (HS400)

Security Key Storage

8 MB NOR Secure Key Flash (sNOR)

Safety MCU (SMCU)

Infineon Aurix TC397

BMC module

Aspeed AST2600

Microchip ERoT

PCIe

1x PCIe Gen5 double width slot (x16)

1x PCIe Gen5 single width slot (x8)

Ethernet

2x 100 GbE QSFP28 ports

2x 1 GbE RJ45

USB 3.2 & USB 2.0

4x USB3.2 Gen2 Type A

4x USB 3.2 Gen2 (via headers)

1x USB 3.2 Gen2 Type C

DisplayPort

One DisplayPort 1.4a output

Audio Input/Output

3x 3.5 mm AU jacks (MIC, line-in, speaker out)

Miscellaneous

Camera input

Onboard camera input slot for future expansion

GPIO

TBD

Wireless connection

M.2 Key E (Wi-Fi and BT)

UART

TBD

System power

IGX Module

ConnectX-7

BMC

Motherboard

Up to 75W

Up to 32W

TBD

TBD

Refer to the following documents or models listed for more information. Always use the latest revision of all documents.

  • NVIDIA IGX Orin Boards Kit Thermal Design Application Note

  • NVIDIA IGX Orin Industrial Module Data Sheet

  • NVIDIA IGX in Safety-Related Systems Application Note

  • NVIDIA IGX Boards Kit Mechanical Design and Installation Guidelines (DI-11306-001)

This product specification describes the detailed hardware architectural specifications of the developer system.

Terms and Definitions

Term

Definition

3LSS

Three Layered Safety Supervision Framework

AI

Artificial Intelligence

(AON) SPE

(Always-On) Sensor Processing Engine

ATX

Advanced Technology eXtended

BIST

Built in Self-Test

BMC

Board Management Computer

BT

BlueTooth

CAN

Controller Area Network

CCPLEX

CPU Complex

COM

Communication Port

CSI

Camera Serial Interface

DC

Diagnostic Coverage

DLA

Deep Learning Accelerator

DP

VESA® DisplayPort™

E/E/PE

Electrical/Electronic/Programmable Electronic

EC

Error Collator

ECC

Error-Correcting Code

eMMC

Embedded MMC

ENET

Ethernet

EROT

Extended Enhanced Root of Trust

EUC

Equipment Under Control

FSI

Functional Safety Island

GbE

Gigabit Ethernet

GPIO

General Purpose Input Output

HDMI™

High-Definition Multimedia Interface

HSM

Hardware Safety Manager

IGX

Industrial-Grade Edge AI platform

IST

In System Test

JSEP

Jetson Safety Extension Package

JTAG

Joint Test Action Group interface

L4T

Linux for Tegra

LPT

Line Printer

LTE

Long-Term Evolution wireless data communications technology

MIC

Microphone

MCU

Microcontroller Unit

NOR

NOR-based memory

NVMe

Non-Volatile Memory Express

PCB

Printed Circuit Board

PCIe

Peripheral Component Interconnect Express interface

QSFP

Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable

RTC

Real-Time-Clock

RTOS

Real Time Operating System

SATA

Serial AT Attachment

SCE

Safety Cluster Engine

SDL

Software Diagnostic Library

SEH

System Error Handler

SIM

Subscriber Identity Module card

SMCU

Safety Microcontroller unit

SPI

Serial Peripheral Interface

SoC

System on a Chip

SOM

System on a Module

SRP/CS

Safety-related parts of control systems

SSD

Solid-State- Drive

TE/OTE

Test Equipment / Operational Test Equipment

TMON/VMON

Thermal monitoring, Voltage monitoring

TPM

Trusted Platform Module

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter

USB

Universal Serial Bus

Wi-Fi

Wireless Fidelity

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