AAEON has introduced a brand new entry in its UP vary, designed for these seeking to experiment with accelerated on-device edge synthetic intelligence (edge AI): the UP NV8600-Nano AI Developer Equipment, powered by NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin Nano computer-on-module (COM).
“NV8600-Nano AI Developer Equipment [is] industrial licensed and mass-production prepared for venture use,” AAEON claims of the bundle, which pairs NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin Nano computer-on-module with AAEON’s personal design of provider board, designed to interrupt out extra options than NVIDIA’s personal provider board.
AAEON has launched a feature-packed NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano-powered edge AI improvement equipment, now obtainable. (
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The Jetson Orin Nano 8GB on the middle of the equipment, delivered to our consideration by Linux Gizmos, offers the equipment a six-core Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU operating at as much as 1.5GHz linked to an Orin graphics processor with 1,024 CUDA cores and 32 Tensor cores — designed, on this case, for accelerating on-device machine studying and synthetic intelligence workloads with as much as 67 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of compute at INT8 precision when operating within the power-hungry new Tremendous Mode.
To this, AAEON has added a couple of good extras: a 256GB Non-Risky Reminiscence Specific (NVMe) drive pre-loaded with NVIDIA’s Ubuntu Linux-based Jetpack software program and a Raspberry Pi Digicam Module 2 for experimenting with pc imaginative and prescient tasks. It is the provider board that actually brings the bundle collectively, although: a customized design that breaks out a wealth of options together with HDMI connectivity, two MIPI Digicam Serial Interface (CSI) inputs, 4 gigabit Ethernet ports with optionally available Energy-over-Ethernet (PoE) help, six USB 3.2 Gen. 2 Kind-A ports, one RS232/422/485 serial port and one other by way of pin header, an M.2 2230-footprint E-key slot, an M.2 2242/3042/3052 B-key slot for a mobile modem with built-in SIM slot, and an M.2 2280 M-key slot stuffed by the NVMe drive, plus a 40-pin general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) header, CAN bus connector, and a micro-USB port for flashing a brand new firmware picture, and a UART bus for debugging, and if that weren’t sufficient there is a SATA port for added storage.
The board’s M-key M.2 slot is populated by a 256GB NVMe drive, however the B-key and E-key slots are left free. (: AAEON)
Briefly, it is troublesome to think about one thing lacking from AAEON’s provider board — and whereas that makes it bulkier than NVIDIA’s personal design, it offers loads of elevated flexibility to make up for its elevated footprint. The corporate has additionally thought-about thermals, significantly within the face of the elevated energy draw of the brand new Tremendous Mode, and bundles a heatsink and fan meeting to maintain the module cool throughout heavy computation; a 60W energy provide can also be supplied, with a two-pin terminal block accepting 12-24VDC when you’d want to energy the system one other method.
The UP NV8600-Nano AI Developer Equipment is offered on the AAEON UP retailer now, priced at $649; that is a substantial hike over NVIDIA’s personal Jetson Orin Nano Developer Equipment, with its extra compact provider board, no digicam, and no NVMe drive, which is priced at $249 — although, on the time of writing, no inventory was obtainable from any of the corporate’s official resellers.
