Jetson TX2

NVIDIA Jetson TX2 is an embedded system-on-module (SoM) with dual-core NVIDIA Denver2 + quad-core ARM Cortex-A57, 8GB 128-bit LPDDR4 and integrated 256-core Pascal GPU.

Useful for deploying computer vision and deep learning, Jetson TX2 runs Linux and provides greater than 1TFLOPS of FP16 compute performance in less than 7.5 watts of power.

Jetson TX2 is available as the module, developer kit, and in compatible ecosystem products. See the wiki of other Jetson's here, including the latest Jetson AGX Xavier.



= Jetson TX2 Module = The Jetson TX2 module contains all the active processing components. The ports are broken out through a carrier board.

Below is a partial list of the module's features. Please see the Jetson TX2 Module Datasheet for the complete specifications.



Processing Components

 * dual-core NVIDIA Denver2 + quad-core ARM Cortex-A57
 * 256-core Pascal GPU
 * 8GB LPDDR4, 128-bit interface
 * 32GB eMMC
 * 4kp60 H.264/H.265 encoder & decoder
 * Dual ISPs (Image Signal Processors)
 * 1.4 gigapixel/sec MIPI CSI camera ingest

Ports & Peripherals

 * HDMI 2.0
 * 802.11a/b/g/n/ac 2×2 867Mbps WiFi
 * Bluetooth 4.1
 * USB3, USB2
 * 10/100/1000 BASE-T Ethernet
 * 12 lanes MIPI CSI 2.0, 2.5 Gb/sec per lane
 * PCIe gen 2.0, 1×4 + 1×1 or 2×1 + 1×2
 * SATA, SDcard
 * dual CAN bus
 * UART, SPI, I2C, I2S, GPIOs

Form-Factor

 * 400-pin Samtec board-to-board connector
 * dimensions: 50x87mm     (1.96" x 3.42")
 * Thermal Transfer Plate (TTP), -25C to 80C operating temperature
 * mass: 85 grams, including TTP
 * 5.5-19.6VDC input power (consuming 7.5W under typical load)

Software Support

 * JetPack 4.2.2
 * Linux4Tegra R32.2.1 (L4T)
 * Linux kernel 4.9
 * Ubuntu 18.04 aarch64
 * CUDA Toolkit 10.0.326
 * cuDNN 7.5.0
 * TensorRT 5.1.6
 * TensorFlow 1.14.0
 * VisionWorks 1.6
 * OpenCV 3.3.1
 * OpenGL 4.6 / OpenGL ES 3.2.5
 * Vulkan 1.1.1
 * L4T Multimedia API (Argus 0.97)
 * GStreamer 1.14.1
 * V4L2 media controller support
 * NVIDIA Nsight Systems 2019.4
 * NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2019.2
 * NVIDIA Nsight Compute 1.0

See the Jetson Zoo for more software packages to install on top of JetPack.

Jetson TX2i Module


There's an extended-temperature variant of the TX2 module available called Jetson TX2i that's intended for industrial environments. It has the same processing capabilities as TX2, with a rugged design.

For more info, see the FAQ "What changes for industrial environments does Jetson TX2i have compared to Jetson TX2?"

= Jetson TX2 Developer Kit =

The Jetson TX2 Developer Kit bundles together all the parts to get started, including:



What's Included

 * mini-ITX Reference carrier board
 * Jetson TX2 Module
 * fan and heatsink (pre-assembled)
 * 5MP CSI camera module (with Omnivision OV5693)
 * WiFi/BT antennas
 * USB OTG adapter
 * 19VDC Power brick
 * AC Power cable

The design files for the reference carrier board and camera module are freely available for download.

Getting Started

 * Get the latest development software for PC and TX2 by using JetPack.


 * Plug in an HDMI display into Jetson, attach the antennas and USB keyboard & mouse, and apply power to boot it up.     (User Guide)


 * Visit the Embedded Developer Zone and Jetson TX2 Developer Forum to access the latest documentation & downloads.

Availability

 * The devkit is available through NVIDIA's Jetson TX2 Developer Kit webpage.
 * The individual module is available through NVIDIA's Jetson TX2 Module webpage.
 * Alternatively, use the Region Selector to find distributors of the devkit in your region.


 * There's also an Academic Discount available for those affiliated with an educational organization.

= Platform Documentation =

NVIDIA has released comprehensive documentation and reference designs for the Jetson TX2 module and devkit.


 * Module Datasheet     the official module features, ports, signal pin-out, and package specifications.
 * Design Guide     detailed technical design and layout information for creating OEM products.
 * DevKit Carrier Spec     design info about the reference carrier board from the devkit.
 * DevKit Design Files     schematics, layout, and design files for the devkit reference carrier board.
 * DevKit CAD Models     3D STEP file for reference carrier board, heatsink, camera board, and module.
 * Camera Design Files     schematics, layout, and design files for the devkit MIPI CSI-2 camera module.
 * Thermal Design Guide     mechanical specifications for designing active and passive cooling solutions.
 * TX1/TX2 Migration     guide to porting applications and hardware between Jetson TX1 and TX2
 * Battery Charger Guide     document for the design of battery charger
 * Tegra X2 (Parker) TRM     Technical Reference Manual for NVIDIA TX2 system-on-chip and register data.
 * L4T Kernel Docs     documentation for L4T kernel developers (including V4L2/camera drivers).
 * Multimedia API Reference     documentation to Argus camera API and V4L2 media codecs
 * Accelerated GStreamer Guide     example gstreamer pipelines for accessing H.264/H.265 hardware video codec.

Above is a partial list of documents. Please visit the Downloads Center at Embedded Developer Zone for the full list that's currently available.

= Guides and Tutorials =

This section contains recipes for following along on Jetson.

System Tools
Please see Jetson TX1 Wiki for similar entries that also apply to TX2.


 * Cloning & Restore
 * Jetson TX2 Build Assistant Scripts
 * BSP FAQ
 * Factory Images
 * Setting the DTB
 * Enabling the SPI Port
 * Building Kernel and Modules
 * Enabling USB on Custom Carriers
 * Maximizing RootFS Partition on eMMC
 * nvpmodel - dynamic performance profiles
 * TX2 GPU support in Docker - script for GPU from within Docker
 * Tegra-Docker
 * Ubuntu Base Minimal footprint (500Mb with OS only) using Ubuntu Base
 * Boot from SD card
 * Display Driver Debugging r28
 * Getting Swift to Run on TX2
 * jetson_easy - automatic setup/scripting
 * jetson_stats - jtop, service and other tools
 * v4l2loopback,rtsp,screencapture,misc
 * Enabling MCP2515 SPI-CAN Device

Robotics

 * NVIDIA Jetson GitHub     (open-source robotics projects with deep learning)
 * NVIDIA Redtail GitHub     (end-to-end deep learning drone for ROS)
 * Jetson Reference Platforms     (off-the-shelf robots with TX1/TX2)
 * FIRST FRC Configuration     (setup guide for FIRST Robotics)
 * FIRST FRC Neural Networks (Zebracorns team #900 object tracking)
 * ROS for FRC Whitepaper     (Zebracorns team #900 Vision GitHub)
 * Installing ROS Kinetic (TX2)     (JetsonHacks guide)
 * Fast SLAM Particle Filter     (Accelerated Localization using Raycasting)
 * Connecting Pixhawk and TX2 (Autopilot with MAVLink Interface)
 * Running MAVROS with TX2 and PixHawk 4 (TX2/ROS setup with MAVLink)

Computer Vision

 * NVIDIA OpenCV 101 - screencast tutorials
 * OpenCV-3.4.0 for TX2 building script
 * Build OpenCV for TX2 (JetsonHacks)
 * Building OpenCV 3.2 with CUDA for Tegra
 * VisionWorks training

Deep Learning

 * NVIDIA Two Days to a Demo     (DIGITS/TensorRT)
 * Caffe     (BVLC Model Zoo)
 * NVcaffe FP16     (Install Guide)
 * Caffe Installation     (JetsonHacks)
 * Caffe2     (github.com/caffe2)
 * Deep Visualization Toolbox install script
 * TensorFlow install for JetPack 3.1
 * TensorFlow post for JetPack 3.0     (JetsonHacks)
 * TensorFlow install procedure     (pip wheel)
 * RidgeRun's GstInference
 * RidgeRun's R2Inference
 * TensorFlow script and pip wheel for JetPack 3.2 DP
 * Torch7      install script
 * pyTorch     install script
 * dusty-nv's Jetson GitHub     jetson-inference      jetson-reinforcement
 * jetson-inference-gv GigEVision / RTP streaming video (Ross Newman)
 * jetson-inference-cards     (playing card recognition by S4WRXTTCS)
 * face-recognition     (face detection with TensorRT plugin API by AastaNV)
 * ChatBot     (TensorFlow→TensorRT inferencing workflow by AastaNV)
 * NVIDIA GitHub     (open-source robotics/DL projects)
 * NVIDIA Redtail     (end-to-end deep learning drone for ROS)
 * Training a Fish Detector with DetectNet     part 1 part 2      (jkjung)
 * Hey, Jetson!     (Automatic Speech Recognition using CNN/RNN)

Multimedia

 * Gstreamer Pipelines for AGX Xavier
 * RidgeRun's GstInterpipe (GStreamer plug-in for communication between two or more independent pipelines)
 * RidgeRun's GstRRWebRTC (GStreamer plug-in that turns pipelines into WebRTC compliant endpoints)
 * RidgeRun's GstRTSPSink (GStreamer element for high performance streaming to multiple computers using the RTSP/RTP protocols)
 * RidgeRun's Gstreamer Daemon - GstD (GStreamer framework for controlling audio and video streaming using TCP connection messages)
 * RidgeRun's GstCUDA (RidgeRun CUDA ZeroCopy for GStreamer)
 * RidgerRun's GstPTZR (GStreamer Pan Tilt Zoom and Rotate Element)
 * RidgeRun's GstColorTransfer (GStreamer plug-in that transfers the color scheme from a reference to a target image)

Camera Info

 * USB3 - e-con Systems' See3CAM_CU135 was tested on Jetson TX2 with HD (1280X720) @ 46fps and FullHD (1920x1080) @ 36fps in MJPEG (compressed) format, as well as other settings.
 * CSI-2 - 6 MIPI CSI-2 Cameras support for Jetson TX2 from e-con Systems
 * CSI-2 - 3 MIPI CSI-2 Cameras support for Jetson TX2 from e-con Systems

V4L2 drivers for cameras

 * RidgeRun has a list of drivers already supported in Jetson, please check if the driver that you need is already there. Otherwise, RidgeRun offers services to create the driver for you

Design FAQs
There are some useful FAQs for Jetson TX2 design, link is here.

= Ecosystem Products =

The following are 3rd-party carriers, enclosures, expansion boards, and accessories available for Jetson TX2.

Please see additional backwards-compatible Ecosystem Products for TX1.

Cameras

 * Allied Vision MIPI CSI-2 (one open-source CSI-2 driver for all cameras on Github.com)
 * Alvium 1500 C-050 0.5MP PYTHON 480
 * Alvium 1500 C-120 1.2MP AR0135CS
 * Alvium 1500 C-210 2.1MP AR0521
 * Alvium 1500 C-500 5MP AR0521
 * Alvium 1800 C-040 0.4MP Sony IMX287
 * Alvium 1800 C-158 1.6MP Sony IMX273
 * Allied Vision USB3 Vision
 * Alvium 1800 U-040 0.4MP Sony IMX287
 * Alvium 1800 U-050 0.5MP PYTHON 480
 * Alvium 1800 U-120 1.2MP AR0135CS
 * Alvium 1800 U-158 1.6MP Sony IMX273
 * Alvium 1800 U-500 5MP AR0521
 * Alvium 1800 U-501m NIR 5MP AR0522
 * APPROPHO TX1/TX2 Camera Solutions
 * DCDZ(冬虫电子) XCB-OV5640  OV5640 M12 lens camera
 * DCDZ(冬虫电子) XCB-OV5693  OV5693 camera
 * e-con Systems 3D MIPI Stereo camera for NVIDIA® Jetson AGX Xavier™/TX2
 * e-con Systems 13MP AR1335 AF MIPI Jetson TX1/TX2 Camera
 * e-con Systems USB Stereo Camera for NVIDIA® Jetson AGX Xavier™/TX2
 * e-con Systems 2MP AR0230AT MIPI Jetson TX1/TX2 Camera
 * e-con Systems 2MP SONY IMX290 MIPI Jetson TX1/TX2 Camera
 * e-con Systems 13MP AR1335 MIPI Jetson TX1/TX2 Camera
 * e-con Systems 3.4 MP AF AR0330 MIPI Jetson TX1/TX2 Camera
 * e-con Systems 13MP AR1820 MIPI Jetson TX1/TX2 Camera
 * e-con Systems 3.4 MP AR0330 MIPI Jetson TX1/TX2 Camera
 * e-con Systems 3.4 MP AR0330 GMSL MIPI Jetson TX1/TX2 Camera
 * Leopard Imaging TX1/TX2 camera kits
 * Stereolabs ZED (stereo camera)

Carriers

 * Aetina N620 nano-ITX carrier
 * Auvidea J100 carrier
 * Auvidea J106 carrier (6 camera)
 * Auvidea J120 carrier
 * Auvidea J130 carrier (4K input)
 * Auvidea J140 dual-GbE carrier
 * Auvidea J150 OpenGear blade
 * Auvidea J200 carrier
 * Avermedia EX731-AA carrier
 * Avermedia EX713-AA carrier
 * Bluetechnix Multi-ToF platform
 * ConnectTech Sprocket carrier
 * ConnectTech Orbitty carrier
 * ConnectTech Spacely carrier
 * ConnectTech Cogswell carrier
 * ConnectTech Elroy carrier
 * ConnectTech 3U VPX card
 * DCDZ(冬虫电子) XCB-Lite carrier with eDP, CSI, DSI, MicroHDMI etc
 * Gumstix Aerocore2 drone carrier
 * Realtimes RTSO-9001 carrier
 * Realtimes RTSO-9002 carrier
 * Realtimes RTSO-9003 carrier
 * Realtimes RTSS-Z5O3U enclosure

Enclosures

 * Aaeon BOXER-8120AI enclosure
 * Abaco GVC1000 enclosure
 * ADLINK DLAP-201-JT2 enclosure
 * Advantech MIC-720AI enclosure
 * Axiomtek eBOX560-900-FL
 * ConnectTech Rosie enclosure
 * ConnectTech Rudi enclosure
 * ConnectTech Astro carrier
 * Curtiss-Wright Parvus DuraCor-312 rugged enclosure
 * MiiVii S2 enclosure
 * MiiVii EVO TX2 enclosure
 * Silverstone PT13 mini-ITX system
 * Rebotnix GUSTAV enclosure
 * SMP Robotics T9 System enclosure
 * Syslogic IPC/COMPACTA-2 TX2i enclosure
 * Syslogic IPC/COMPACTA-2 TX2i enclosure (railway system)
 * Syslogic RPC/COMPACTA-2 TX2i enclosure (IP67)
 * Vision4CE CHARM-100 enclosure

Expansion Boards

 * Auvidea J20 6-camera module
 * DCDZ(冬虫电子) XCB-H2C   HDMI  to CSI expansion board
 * DCDZ(冬虫电子) XCB-SDI   SDI  to CSI expansion board
 * DCDZ(冬虫电子) XCB-8eyes   4 or 8 cameras ADAS  expansion board
 * DCDZ(冬虫电子) XCB-AUDIO   Sound card expansion board
 * DCDZ(冬虫电子) XCB-DSPK   Digital speaker and MIC expansion board
 * BeadaPanel USB Display+WiFi+Storage 3-In-1 Companion Kit

Other

 * Aeryon SkyRanger R80 drone
 * black.ai perception platform
 * RidgeRun GStreamer and Multimedia Solutions
 * Skydio 2 drone

= Getting Help = If you have a technical question or bug report, please visit the DevTalk Developer Forums and search or start a topic.

We summarize some useful topics in http://elinux.org/Jetson_TX2/TX2_Issue page.

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