128GB uSD with JetPack for Jetson Orin Nano Dev Kit

No eMMC is included on the Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano Module, this provides flexibility for the developer to choose the preferred storage size and type, for example, microSD card or NVMe SSD.  Nvidia recommends booting from a microSD card with JetPack 5.1.1 OS. You can download the image and load it into a microSD card. However, the JetPack 5.1.1 image itself is >10GB, you will need high-speed Internet to download it, and 15 to 30 minutes (depending on USB port and microSD card adapter) or so just to load and verify the image into a microSD card. We have done the hard work for you. This is a MakerDisk 128GB, Class 10, U3, V30, UHS-1, A1 grade microSD card, preloaded JetPack 5.1.1, ready to boot up on the Jetson Orin Nano Dev board. Please DO NOT format it if you intend to use it with the board.

Note: Once the microSD card with JetPack is bootup (1st boot), please proceed with the initial setup which includes: Review and accepting NVIDIA Jetson Software EULA, selecting system language, keyboard layout, and time zone, connecting to a wireless network (optional), create a username, password, and computer name, and login. Then you can shut it down properly. Please DO NOT power off without proper shutdown from the Desktop. It will corrupt the JetPack image in the microSD card.

The boot page looks like this:

You will see this configuration page once the Jetson Orin Nano boots up. You can now proceed with the initial setup which includes: Review and accepting NVIDIA Jetson Software EULA, selecting system language, keyboard layout, and time zone, connecting to a wireless network (optional), create a username, password, and computer name, and login.

And tadaaaa~

There you have it, the Jetson Orin Nano desktop!

The MakerDisk microSD card has also gone through a special lifespan test by Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Here is the methodology:

The sample MakerDisk microSD cards have gone through more than 4,000 times of random power interrupts and the speed tests show very good results. Superb!

This MakerDisk microSD card comes pre-loaded with JetPack for Jetson Orin Nano Dev Kit, so it can boot up on the Jetson Orin Nano Dev kit right out of the box. Please DO NOT format it. If you want to load other Operating Systems, we would recommend getting the Raspberry Pi Imager or BalenaEtcher and choosing the preferred Operating System into the microSD card.

Note: If you need a USB microSD card reader/writer, get it from here.

JetPack 5.1.1

JetPack 5.1.1 is the latest production release by Nvidia and supports all Jetson Orin modules.

Key features in Jetpack 5.1.1:

• Jetson Linux:

  • NVIDIA Jetson Linux 35.3.1 provides the Linux Kernel 5.10, UEFI based bootloader, Ubuntu 20.04 based root file system, NVIDIA drivers, necessary firmwares, toolchain and more.

  • JetPack 5.1.1 includes Jetson Linux 35.3.1 which adds the following highlights: (Please refer to release notes for additional details)

  • Adds support for Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit

  • Adds support for Jetson AGX Orin 64GB, Jetson Orin NX 8GB, Jetson Orin Nano 8GB and Jetson Orin Nano 4GB production modules

  • Over The Air Updates:

    • Image Based OTA tools supported to upgrade Xavier or Orin based modules running JetPack 5 in the field

  • Camera:

    • Support for Multi Point Lens Shading Correction (LSC) on Orin.

    • Enhanced resilience of Argus SyncStereo app to maintain synchronization between stereo camera pairs.

  • Multimedia:

    • Support for dynamic frame rate in AV1 encoding

    • New argus_camera_sw_encode sample for demonstrating software encoding on CPU cores

    • Updated nvgstcapture-1.0 with option of software encoding on CPU cores

• TensorRT:

  • TensorRT is a high-performance deep learning inference runtime for image classification, segmentation, and object detection neural networks. TensorRT is built on CUDA, NVIDIA’s parallel programming model, and enables you to optimize inference for all deep learning frameworks. It includes a deep learning inference optimizer and runtime that delivers low latency and high-throughput for deep learning inference applications.

  • JetPack 5.1.1 includes TensorRT 8.5.2

• cuDNN:

  • CUDA Deep Neural Network library provides high-performance primitives for deep learning frameworks. It provides highly tuned implementations for standard routines such as forward and backward convolution, pooling, normalization, and activation layers.

  • JetPack 5.1.1 includes cuDNN 8.6.0

• CUDA:

  • CUDA Toolkit provides a comprehensive development environment for C and C++ developers building GPU-accelerated applications. The toolkit includes a compiler for NVIDIA GPUs, math libraries, and tools for debugging and optimizing the performance of your applications.

  • JetPack 5.1.1 includes CUDA 11.4.19

  • Starting with JetPack 5.0.2, upgrade to latest and greatest CUDA releases from CUDA 11.8 onwards without the need to update Jetson Linux other JetPack components. Refer to instructions in the CUDA documentation on how to get the latest CUDA on JetPack.

• Multimedia API:

  • The Jetson Multimedia API package provides low level APIs for flexible application development.

  • Camera application API: libargus offers a low-level frame-synchronous API for camera applications, with per frame camera parameter control, multiple (including synchronized) camera support, and EGL stream outputs. RAW output CSI cameras needing ISP can be used with either libargus or GStreamer plugin. In either case, the V4L2 media-controller sensor driver API is used.

  • Sensor driver API: V4L2 API enables video decode, encode, format conversion and scaling functionality. V4L2 for encode opens up many features like bit rate control, quality presets, low latency encode, temporal tradeoff, motion vector maps, and more.

  • JetPack 5.1.1 Camera highlights include:

    • Support for Multi Point Lens Shading Correction (LSC) on Orin.

    • Enhanced resilience of Argus SyncStereo app to maintain synchronization between stereo camera pairs.

  • JetPack 5.1.1 Multimedia highlights include:

    • Support for dynamic frame rate in AV1 encoding

    • New argus_camera_sw_encode sample for demonstrating software encoding on CPU cores

    • Updated nvgstcapture-1.0 with option of software encoding on CPU cores

• Computer Vision

  • VPI (Vision Programing Interface) is a software library that provides Computer Vision / Image Processing algorithms implemented on multiple hardware accelerators found on Jetson such as PVA (Programmable Vision Accelerator), GPU, NVDEC(NVIDIA Decoder), NVENC (NVIDIA Encoder), VIC (Video Image Compositor) and so on.

  • OpenCV is an open-source library for computer vision, image processing and machine learning.

  • JetPack 5.1.1 includes a minor update to VPI 2.2 with bug fixes

  • JetPack 5.1.1 includes OpenCV 4.5.4

• Graphics:

  • JetPack 5.1.1 includes the following graphics libraries:

  • Vulkan® 1.3 (including the Roadmap 2022 Profile).

    • Vulkan 1.3 Announcement

  • Vulkan® SC 1.0

    • Vulkan SC is a low-level, deterministic, robust API that is based on Vulkan 1.2. This API enables state-of-the-art GPU-accelerated graphics and computation that can be deployed in safety-critical systems and that are certified to meet industry functional safety standards. Refer to https://www.khronos.org/vulkansc/ for more information.

    • Vulkan SC can also be invaluable for real-time non safety critical embedded applications. Vulkan SC increases determinism and reduces application size by shifting preparation of the run-time application environment either offline, or into application setup, as much as possible. This includes offline compilation of graphics pipelines that define how the GPU processes data, together with static memory allocation, that together enable detailed GPU control that can be rigorously specified and tested.

    • Vulkan SC 1.0 is evolved from Vulkan 1.2 and includes: the removal of runtime functionality that is not needed in safety-critical markets, an updated design to provide predictable execution times and results, and clarifications to remove potential ambiguity in its operation. For more details see https://www.khronos.org/blog/vulkan-sc-overview

    • Note: Jetson support for Vulkan SC is NOT safety certified.

  • OpenWF™ Display 1.0

    • OpenWF Display is a Khronos API for low overhead interaction with the native display driver on Jetson and allows interaction with Vulkan SC to display images.

    • Note: Jetson support for OpenWF Display is NOT safety certified.

• Nsight Developer Tools:

  • CUDA Toolkit provides a comprehensive development environment for C and C++ developers building high-performance GPU-accelerated applications with CUDA libraries. The toolkit includes Nsight Visual Studio Code Edition, Nsight Eclipse Plugins, debugging and profiling tools including Nsight Compute, and a toolchain for cross-compiling applications

  • NVIDIA Nsight Systems is a low overhead system-wide profiling tool, providing the insights developers need to analyze and optimize software performance.

  • NVIDIA Nsight Graphics is a standalone application for debugging and profiling graphics applications.

  • NVIDIA Nsight Deep Learning Designer is an integrated development environment that helps developers efficiently design and develop deep neural networks for in-app inference.

  • Nsight System, Nsight Graphics, and Nsight Compute are all supported on Jetson Orin modules to assist development for autonomous machines.

  • JetPack 5.1.1 includes NVIDIA Nsight Systems v2022.5

  • JetPack 5.1.1 includes NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2022.6

  • JetPack 5.1.1 includes NVIDIA Nsight Deep Learning Designer 2022.2

  • Refer to release notes for more details.

• Supported SDKs and Tools:

  • NVIDIA DeepStream SDK is a complete analytics toolkit for AI-based multi-sensor processing and video and audio understanding.

  • DeepStream 6.2 release supports JetPack 5.1.1

  • NVIDIA Triton™ Inference Server simplifies deployment of AI models at scale. Triton Inference Server is open source and supports deployment of trained AI models from NVIDIA TensorRT, TensorFlow and ONNX Runtime on Jetson. On Jetson, Triton Inference Server is provided as a shared library for direct integration with C API.

  • PowerEstimator is a webapp that simplifies creation of custom power mode profiles and estimates Jetson module power consumption.

  • JetPack 5.1.1 supports PowerEstimator for Jetson AGX Orin and Jetson Xavier NX modules

  • NVIDIA Isaac™ ROS is a collection of hardware-accelerated packages that make it easier for ROS developers to build high-performance solutions on NVIDIA hardware including NVIDIA Jetson.

  • Isaac ROS DP3 release supports JetPack 5.1.1

MakerDisk Features:

• A microSD card from Makers to Makers!
• Brand: MakerDisk
• Capacity/Size: 128GB
  • 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes.
  • Actual usable capacity may be less, depending on the format. From JetPack OS, here is the capacity from file explorer, excluding the boot drive: ~ 111GB
  • Check the capacity calculation from Wiki.
• Pre-loaded with JetPack OS, it is ready to boot up on Jetson Orin Nano Dev Kit, right out of the box!
• The test results are better than Class A1 and Raspberry Pi Standards, which is definitely great for Jetson!
  • Class 10, A1, U3, V30 microSD card
  • Random IOPS - Read: > 2,700 IOPS (A1 standard 1500 IOPS, Raspberry Pi Standard 2000 IOPS)
  • Random IOPS - Write: > 900 IOPS (A1 standard 500 IOPS, Raspberry Pi Standard 500 IOPS)
  • Sequential Write: > 31MB/S (A1 Standard 10MB/S, Raspberry Pi Standard 12MB/S)

• 1 x 128GB uSD with JetPack for Jetson Orin Nano Dev Kit

• BalenaEtcher
• JetPack 5.1.1 download
• JetPack 5.1.1 Release Notes