NVIDIA's TX1 SoC now comes on a credit-card sized module

NVIDIA's press release states that "Jetson TX1 is the first embedded computer designed to process deep neural networks -- computer software that can learn to recognize objects or interpret information." The 3.4x2inch module includes a Tegra X1 ARM Cortex-A57 processor with 256-core NVIDIA Maxwell graphics, 4GB of LPDDR4 memory, 16GB of eMMC storage, 802.11ac WiFi and Bluetooth, and Gigabit Ethernet support.

AnandTech Article: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9779/nvidia-announces-jetson-tx1-tegra-x1-module-development-kit

The Jetson TX1 Development Kit will be available for preorder starting Nov. 12 for $599 in the United States. The kit includes the Jetson TX1 module, a carrier board (pictured below), and a 5MP camera. The stand-alone module will be available in early 2016 (for $299 in bulk).

The Jetson TK1 (not TX1) was released in 2014 to encourage the development of products based on the Tegra K1 processor. However, according to AnandTech, developers were using the Jetson TK1 outright as a production board, choosing to focus on peripheral and software development instead of system hardware development. With the new TX1, all of the I/O connectivity is provided on a carrier board, enabling rapid development on the credit-card sized TX1 module. After development is finished, the TX1 module can be directly deployed in products, such as drones.

NVIDIA used a drone application to promote the Jetson TX1

https://twitter.com/NVIDIATegra/status/664238535096926208

I've been following this thread for awhile. Excited about the possibilities, but am more of an end user than a developer. Nothing to contribute at this point. However, I'm wondering about applications for this computer. To fly commercially, backup systems are crucial so that we're not out of the game if something happens to the main system. I expect that this would mean we would have a few of these on hand, as part of our backup drone systems. What's the possibility of hooking a few of these together to crunch through the post processing of images and data? It's either Photoscan or Pix4D that supports this kind of thing on Windows machines. A double purpose so they are in use after the flight. A lot of our work is remote and it's difficult to get the data to the Processor's. Granted it's usually best to have something purpose built, but these sound so capable that they could shave off a significant amount of time from the over all task of getting a product to customers.

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Benoît Courty February 12, 2016 at 12:25pm

For TX1 and ZED you could have a look to JetsonHacks blog : http://jetsonhacks.com/2016/02/03/stereolabs-zed-camera/
Jerry Giant February 12, 2016 at 8:09am

thanks matt, it's on my profile now.
Matt™ February 12, 2016 at 8:05am

Careful Jerry, you've proven to have low morals... any "advice" from you is likely intentionally misleading. :)
Jerry Giant February 12, 2016 at 8:01am

i have to say Jurgen you need to reverse the side of seam connector, mag and usb sock will obstruct the airflow.
Thomas Stanley-Jones February 12, 2016 at 7:34am

I've been following this thread for awhile. Excited about the possibilities, but am more of an end user than a developer. Nothing to contribute at this point. However, I'm wondering about applications for this computer. To fly commercially, backup systems are crucial so that we're not out of the game if something happens to the main system. I expect that this would mean we would have a few of these on hand, as part of our backup drone systems. What's the possibility of hooking a few of these together to crunch through the post processing of images and data? It's either Photoscan or Pix4D that supports this kind of thing on Windows machines. A double purpose so they are in use after the flight. A lot of our work is remote and it's difficult to get the data to the Processor's. Granted it's usually best to have something purpose built, but these sound so capable that they could shave off a significant amount of time from the over all task of getting a product to customers.
JB February 12, 2016 at 7:14am

Thx for the update Jurgen.

Mini DP looks fine, I was wondering if it was only mechanically different. Keeps it small and lighter too. Just need a mini DP to HDMI adapter then.

I like the name..Jetson Pi gives it a more approachable feeling, despite how powerful it is!

With the power supply how is it being powered atm? Do you have a power socket somewhere? Also what is going on the bottom of the board?

I suppose the Cuda cores are more efficient. What are you going test on that next?
Jurgen Stelbrink February 12, 2016 at 5:58am

Hi JB, here is the latest image. I have now fitted the mini Displayport connector. According to Dustin the TX1 should support it. Mini DP and DP only differ in the mechanical size and not in the signals.

It kind of looks like a Raspberry Pi. Maybe we should call it the "Jetson Pi". It would be a very high performance Pi. ;-) Especially if a high performance M.2 2280 card would be fitted. Some vendors claim a read/write performance of 2500 MBytes/s.

It will be a new design. I can only keep a few things from the J100 - like the 400 pin Jetson connector and some other bit and pieces.

Power consumption: I now know that the 4K video play is running on the ARM CPUs. This is why the power consumption is so high. The J100 is mainly passive and does not really add any significant power consumption to the system.
Jiro Hattori February 12, 2016 at 12:45am

This may the first step of ArduCopter on the way to deep learning:-)
JB February 12, 2016 at 12:31am

Nice to have you on-board Randy! ;-)

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Jurgen

I didn't realise that this baby, the TX1 is actually that small...it's in fact not much bigger than a Pi. Sweet!

I'd also prefer the DP, mostly because of better Res/hz capability, but now that you bring it up, interference is a big consideration as well.

As I mentioned previously, did you want to make a completely new board with USB/LAN/DP/M.2 or are you going to add these onto the previous board layout instead of the USB pinout connectors?
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Randy February 11, 2016 at 5:33pm

My TX1 arrived today (thanks EnRoute!) so I'm looking forward to putting some of this together with the companion computer work that's going on in parallel (another link here).

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