Antmicro accelerates edge AI product development with open source hardware and frameworks for Yocto for NVIDIA Jetson
Taipei, COMPUTEX 2026, 1st June 2026 — Following today’s NVIDIA GTC Taipei announcement of official Yocto Project support for the NVIDIA Jetson platform starting with JetPack 7.2, NVIDIA Jetson Ecosystem Partner Antmicro is excited to support the ecosystem and customers with end-to-end product design expertise building around its Yocto-enabled open source hardware and frameworks for OTA, factory testing, AI and more.
Antmicro’s open source, vertically integrated toolkit, centered around Yocto and supporting NVIDIA Jetson platforms, ranges from the OTA and fleet management framework dubbed RDFM, through tools like Kenning for AI benchmarking and deployment and Protoplaster for factory testing, to a wide array of open hardware boards and accessories, and provides building blocks for the company’s fast-turnaround AI-capable product development services.
Full product design with custom Yocto-based Linux images for NVIDIA Jetson
With over a decade of experience with NVIDIA Jetson, covering every NVIDIA Jetson SoM family member so far, Antmicro has been delivering full product design services on NVIDIA Jetson devices using Yocto since many years.
This includes building tailored Yocto-based Linux BSPs for Antmicro’s NVIDIA Jetson customers in verticals spanning from robotics, defense and space to medical and manufacturing, which feature complex video pipelines, multi-device processing systems leveraging ROS on Yocto, advanced configuration, lifecycle management and hybrid device-to-cloud AI.
Defaulting to Yocto has allowed Antmicro and its customers to rely on reproducible, traceable from-source builds created from specific software revisions via Continuous Integration. Shared cloud build environments together with a portfolio of permissively licensed, open source frameworks for OTA, AI and factory testing which tightly integrate with Yocto and can be deployed on-premise, constitute a blueprint for faster-turnaround, more transparent edge AI product development.
The meta-antmicro collection of Yocto layers is frequently used in systems built on top of Antmicro’s open hardware baseboards for NVIDIA Jetson Orin and NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor, and provides a base for custom BSPs tailored to the complexity of specific edge AI applications.
Secure, open source OTA updates and fleet management for NVIDIA Jetson devices with RDFM
While creating a solid, reproducible BSP is often an important step in building a shippable NVIDIA Jetson product, scaling up requires an Over-the-Air and fleet management strategy. Complex scenarios in physical AI often involve a mix of NVIDIA Jetson, MCUs or even FPGA which perform a variety of tasks and need to be kept up-to-date in sync with each other, and can’t always rely on ideal connectivity conditions.
Antmicro’s open source RDFM framework for OTA and fleet management enables coordinated Over-the-Air updates for complex devices running Linux, Android and Zephyr RTOS, or a combination thereof. RDFM’s capabilities include A/B partitioning mechanisms, delta updates, rollbacks or update groups, and easy integration with existing infrastructure. For Linux, RDFM leverages Yocto to achieve versioned, reproducible builds.
Being open source on both client and server side, possible to deploy on-premise, secure and permissively-licensed, RDFM provides customers with a reliable solution for remote access to their NVIDIA Jetson products: beyond BSP updates, it allows for observing a device’s telemetry data, using a CLI interface for controlling power usage, scripting, and updating on-device AI models optimized with Antmicro’s open source Kenning framework.
Antmicro’s open hardware baseboards, accessories and testing flows for customized NVIDIA Jetson devices with Yocto
For accelerated development of Jetson-based products, Antmicro has been regularly introducing open hardware baseboards and accessories for the latest SoMs in the NVIDIA Jetson series. This includes the Jetson Orin NX/Nano-compatible Antmicro Baseboard for NVIDIA Jetson Orin, now available for off-the-shelf purchase directly from Antmicro’s System Designer Portal, and the recently added Antmicro Baseboard for Jetson AGX Thor, targeting the powerful NVIDIA T5000 SoM.
The Antmicro baseboards for NVIDIA Jetson come in an optimized footprint, expose practical I/Os and multiple power supply options and are complemented by a range of open hardware accessories such as storage expansion boards, camera modules, video adapters and more. You can see the full portfolio of open hardware boards on the Antmicro Open Hardware Portal.
An ideal starting point for fully-fledged AI-capable products, Antmicro’s baseboards and accessories frequently serve as the backbone for cutting-edge commercial projects. Antmicro’s open source component database and workflow (including electromagnetic testing, thermal and mechanical design) underlying this vast portfolio of boards is also used for developing customized, integrated derivatives targeting specific use cases. Common custom hardware engineering services Antmicro provides include hardening for specific industry requirements, changing interfaces, integrating multiple boards and custom sensors, FPGAs, etc.
A notable example is Aethero’s versatile fleet of space computers delivering powerful in-orbit processing capabilities enabled by the NVIDIA Jetson Orin and Jetson Thor SoMs. Antmicro provided full-stack development and integration services: from concept and hardware design, mechanics and manufacturing, to complete software development based on Yocto and a custom version of RDFM for bandwidth-constrained updates and management of deployed satellites.
Antmicro also uses Yocto for comprehensive, automated production testing of hardware and their corresponding software with the open source Protoplaster framework. With CI-driven validation of software packages and the ability to generate detailed system reports, Protoplaster can be integrated into customers’ testing environments to streamline platform verification. With blueprints for ICT testing of NVIDIA Jetson devices and fast turnaround prototyping capabilities, Antmicro can help you take your device from concept to scale, on Earth and in space.
Accelerating end-to-end development for physical and edge AI products
As a trusted NVIDIA Jetson Ecosystem Partner, Antmicro helps customers build complete physical and edge AI devices powered by the latest NVIDIA Jetson SoMs.
With vast experience in leveraging the scalability and transparency of Yocto with reproducible custom Linux builds that include support for Antmicro’s open source RDFM fleet manager and the Protoplaster testing framework, and a portfolio of open hardware, the full stack development services offered by Antmicro directly translate to faster time-to-market and more control over the entire stack for product companies across robotics, space, defense, automotive, agriculture and more.
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