As an NVIDIA Jetson Ecosystem Partner, Antmicro has been helping customers create prototypes and build complete products based on our open hardware designs dedicated for the NVIDIA Jetson family. One of the most popular platforms developed by Antmicro is the versatile Baseboard for NVIDIA Jetson Orin targeting NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Jetson Orin Nano SoMs, also in Super mode. Since its introduction, the baseboard has found use in various customer projects, including the NxN and NxA space computers developed by Aethero in collaboration with Antmicro.
Complemented by Antmicro’s broad portfolio of open source tooling and video accessories, the baseboard offers a perfect starting point for developing NVIDIA Jetson-based edge AI and computer vision systems. Thanks to its miniaturized outline, it’s especially suitable for embedded and size-constrained devices.
In response to the growing interest expressed by our customers and partners, we are happy to announce that the open hardware Antmicro Baseboard for NVIDIA Jetson Orin is now available for purchase directly from our System Designer portal for customers within Europe. In this article we summarize the recent developments related to the baseboard and showcase the broader development ecosystem enabled by our System Designer portal.
Versatile and modular Antmicro Baseboard for Jetson Orin
Antmicro’s Baseboard for NVIDIA Jetson Orin was designed to harness the power and performance of the NVIDIA Jetson Orin SoMs for demanding edge AI applications. To that end, it break-routes typical I/O from the SoM, but also exposes a custom expansion connector that enables connecting additional modules with interfaces such as 2-lane PCIe or two 1-lane PCIe, USB 3.2 or CAN. Examples of such modules are Antmicro’s Storage Expansion Board and OCuLink Expansion board, enabling additional M.2 NVMe and PCIe-over-OCuLink interfaces, respectively. Throughout the years, Antmicro has also developed many video accessories compatible with the baseboard. Notable examples include HDMI to MIPI Bridge, SDI to MIPI Converter, and GMSL Deserializer enabling a variety of digital video input interfaces. You can find more technical details about the platform, including detailed schematics, stackup view, component list, and downloadable board assets, on Antmicro’s Open Hardware Portal.
On the software side, Antmicro offers dedicated Yocto-based Linux Board Support Package development through our custom meta-antmicro Yocto layer. For customers interested in remote fleet management, our open source RDFM framework provides Over-the-Air updates for Jetson Orin-based devices. To simplify Deep Neural Networks optimization and benchmarking for Jetson Orin targets, we employ our Kenning ML framework.
The Antmicro Baseboard for NVIDIA Jetson Orin variant currently available for purchase on System Designer is revision 1.3.4. It has been certified for the European market by an independent 3rd party certification laboratory. The boards were assembled by an EU-based Contract Manufacturer, and each unit was tested with Antmicro’s In-Circuit Tester and Protoplaster. A detailed guide is also available to help you get started with everything.
The System Designer ecosystem
Antmicro’s System Designer is a unified, transparent and software-driven portal, meant to eventually become a one-stop shop for both Antmicro’s designs and products, and third party devices, SoCs, FPGAs, ASICs, and more. Building on top of existing projects such as the Hardware Component Database and the Zephyr and U-Boot dashboards, System Designer allows us to not only represent the devices themselves, but also the relations between components and complex devices, as well as software and the hardware it runs on.
On the System Designer subpage dedicated to the Antmicro Baseboard for NVIDIA Jetson Orin, apart from the option to buy the board directly with fast shipping within the EU, you will find a range of additional assets and useful information. The first thing you’ll notice is the interactive render and photo of the actual board, with clickable components. A detailed list of components, with vendor names, individual renders and part numbers, is available below. If you scroll down even further, you’ll see the Parent devices section that lists complex devices build around the baseboard, which serves as a showcase of real and potential use cases. Many of those were inspired by customer projects, such as the Audio Latency Tester. Finally, at the bottom of the page you can find a Hardware Bill of Materials, also available for download.
End-to-end engineering services for NVIDIA Jetson Orin-based devices
The Antmicro Baseboard for Jetson Orin is the first platform available for purchase on System Designer, with more to follow in the future. For customers outside of EU, a purchase option through CircuitHub is still available. Beyond NVIDIA Jetson Orin, we implement solutions for other members of the Jetson family, including the most recent Baseboard for Jetson AGX Thor.
Get your own Baseboard for NVIDIA Jetson Orin to start the development of your next edge AI device, and reach out to us at contact@antmicro.com to learn more about our comprehensive engineering services that can help you bring your idea to life. We offer hardware design and customization, BSP development, post-deployment management, and more, driven by open source tools and workflows.
