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
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’
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 MCU 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) |
| MCU | 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 |
| 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 |