Related Documentation

Many documents related to NVIDIA® Jetson™ Linux (L4T) are available from:

• The L4T home page of the NVIDIA Developer web site

You can search the Jetson Download Center for documents whose titles contain a specified word or sequence of words. For example, you can find all Jetson Developer Kit documents, such as Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit User Guide and Jetson Nano Developer Kit Carrier Board Specification, by searching for “Developer Kit.”

You must be a member of the NVIDIA Developer Program to download some documents from the Jetson Download Center. When you try to download such a document you may be shown a log-in page that invites you to join.

Published Documents

The following documents may be of particular interest to Jetson developers.

Title and Link	Document Number	Version	Last Published
Getting Started with Jetson Developer Kits
Getting Started with Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kit	—	—	—
Getting Started with Jetson Nano Developer Kit	—	—	—
Getting Started with Jetson TX2 Developer Kit	—	—	—
Getting Started with Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit	—	—	—
Jetson Developer Kit user guides	—	—	—
Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit User Guide	DA_09814	1.0	5/14/2020
Jetson Nano Developer Kit User Guide	DA_09402	1.3	1/15/2020
Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kit User Guide (not accessible from the general link above)	—	—	11/22/2020
Jetson AGX Xavier Developer Kit User Guide	DA_09403	3.0	1/15/2020
Jetson TX2 Developer Kit User Guide	DA_09452	4.0	9/07/2018
Jetson AI “Getting Started” (an NVIDIA Developer web page with links to an introduction to Artificial Intelligence, and “How To” documentation for several Jetson devices and developer kits)	—	—	—
Technical reference manuals (TRMs)
NVIDIA Xavier Series System-on-Chip Technical Reference Manual	DP-09253	1.4p	4/22/2020
Tegra X2 Series SoC Technical Reference Manual	DP-07281	1.0p	6/21/2017
Tegra X1 SoC Technical Reference Manual	DP-07225	1.3p	4/26/2019
Jetson module data sheets
NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX System-on-Module Data Sheet	DA-09366	1.3	4/22/2020
NVIDIA Jetson Nano Module Data Sheet	DS_09366	1.0	2/12/2020
Jetson AGX Xavier Series Module Data Sheet	DS-09654	1.2	7/31/2020
Jetson TX2 Series Module Data Sheet	—	1.6	5/28/2020
Jetson TX1 Module Data Sheet	DS-07224	1.1	11/22/2016
Jetson product design guides
Jetson Xavier NX Product Design Guide	DG-09693	1.1	5/07/2020
Jetson Nano Product Design Guide	DG_09502	2.0	3/02/2020
Jetson AGX Xavier OEM Product Design Guide	DG-09840	2.0	5/28/2020
Jetson TX2 Series OEM Product Design Guide	—	20200508	5/28/2020
Jetson TX1 OEM Product Design Guide	—	20180917	9/20/2018
Jetson fuse specifications
Jetson Xavier NX Fuse Specification Application Note	DA-09876	1,0	4/13/2020
Jetson TX1 Fuse Specification	DA-08191	6.0	5/25/2018
Jetson AGX Xavier Series Fuse Specification Application Note	DA-09342	1.1	7/07/2021
Jetson TX2 Series Fuse Specification App Note	DA-08415	2.0	1/11/2010
Jetson TX2 NX Fuse Specification	DA-10246	1.0	2/24/2021
Jetson Virtual Channel with GMSL Framework Guide	DA_09421	1.0	6/12/2020
NVIDIA Jetson Linux Driver Package API Reference	PR-08664	R32.4.3	6/24/2020
Jetson FAQ (part numbers and formal names of all Jetson modules and developer kits)	—	—	—
Jetson Sensor Processing Engine (SPE) Developer Guide	DA_09482	32.5	1/11/2021
TensorRT Documentation Archives	TB-09019	7.1.0	5/18/2020
TensorRT Support Matrix	SWE-SWDOCTRT-001-SPMT	7.1.0	5/12/2020
TensorRT Release Notes	SWE-SWDOCTRT-001-RELN	7.1.0	5/12/2020
TensorRT Developer Guide	SWE-SWDOCTRT-001-DEVG	7.1.0	5/12/2020
TensorRT Installation Guide	SWE-SWDOCTRT-001-INST	7.1.0	5/12/2020
Best Practices for TensorRT Performance	SWE-SWDOCTRT-001-BPRC	7.1.0	5/12/2020
Working with TensorRT Samples	SWE-SWDOCTRT-001-SAMG	7.1.0	6/08/2020
TensorRT API Guide	SWE-SWDOCTRT-001-APIS	7.1.0	5/12/2020
TensorRT Software License Agreement	SWE-SWDOCTRT-001-SWLA	7.1.0	5/12/2020

READMEs

Jetson Linux BSP includes many README files which document features that are release-specific or are of interest to a limited group of Jetson Linux developers. The following table describes them and gives their pathnames relative to the BSP home directory.

Pathname	Subject
./README_Autoflash.txt	NVIDIA auto flash tool.
./README_Massflash.txt	Securely flash multiple devices at the same time.
./rootfs/README.txt	Set up sample root file system.
./rootfs/var/‌nvidia/‌nvcam/‌apps/‌README.txt	Scripts and binary executables used by camera tools.
./rootfs/var/‌nvidia/‌nvcam/‌input/‌README.txt	Input files and images used by camera tools.
./rootfs/var/‌nvidia/‌nvcam/‌output/‌README.txt	Output files and log generated by camera tools.
./rootfs/var/‌nvidia/‌nvcam/‌settings/‌README.txt	Setting and override files used by camera tools.
./rootfs/usr/‌src/‌nvidia/‌graphics_demos/‌nvgldemo/‌README	Utility library of common functions used by sample applications.
./rootfs/usr/‌src/‌nvidia/‌graphics_demos/‌gears-lib/‌README	Simple OpenGLES2 rendering library.
./rootfs/usr/‌src/‌nvidia/‌graphics_demos/‌bubble/‌README	GLES bubble sample applications.
./rootfs/usr/‌src/‌nvidia/‌graphics_demos/‌gears-cube/‌README	Example of rendering to texture.
./rootfs/usr/‌src/‌nvidia/‌graphics_demos/‌gears-basic/‌README	Example of rendering spinning gears.
./rootfs/usr/‌src/‌nvidia/‌graphics_demos/‌nvtexfont/‌README	An OpenGLES implementation of the original TextFont package by Mark Kilgard.
./rootfs/usr/‌src/‌nvidia/‌graphics_demos/‌eglstreamcube/‌README	Example illustrating EGLStream.
./rootfs/usr/‌src/‌nvidia/‌graphics_demos/‌weston-dmabuf-formats/‌README	Sample application to test different color formats on Weston.
./rootfs/usr/‌src/‌nvidia/‌graphics_demos/‌ctree/‌README	Describes dynamic lighting using reflection model.
./rootfs/usr/‌src/‌nvidia/‌graphics_demos/‌README	Sample list and guidance for building the samples.
./rootfs/usr/‌lib/‌aarch64-linux-gnu/‌gstreamer-1.0/‌nvgstplayer-1.0_README.txt	NVIDIA GStreamer-based video player sample application.
./rootfs/usr/‌lib/‌aarch64-linux-gnu/‌gstreamer-1.0/‌nvgstcapture-1.0_README.txt	NVIDIA GStreamer-based video capture sample applications.
./nv_tegra/nv_sample_apps/‌nvgstplayer-1.0_README.txt
./nv_tegra/nv_sample_apps/‌nvgstcapture-1.0_README.txt
./tools/kernel_flash/‌README_initrd_flash.txt	Flashing a Jetson device from the host using the recovery kernel initrd (the recommended procedure).
./tools/backup_restore/‌README_backup_restore.txt	Jetson Linux backup and restore tool.
./tools/bmp-splash/‌bmp-blob-README.txt	Create a Jetson-compatible BMP blob for the boot splash screen.
./tools/Debian/‌nvdebrepack.txt	Tools for creating Debian packages.