MSI has unveiled a cased service board for the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano and Orin NX system-on-module household, to supply industrial-grade edge machine studying and synthetic intelligence (ML and AI) in a compact footprint — and with totally passive cooling.
“[The] MS-C913 [is a] compact-size field PC with NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano/NX AI computing platform,” MSI explains of its creation, a square-format metal-encased PC with ridged cooling fins in its higher floor, “with extremely low-power fanless answer.”
The MSI C-913 packs an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano or NX in a rugged, fanless housing with loads of connectivity choices. (📷: MSI)
Contained in the steel chassis, dropped at our consideration by Linux Gizmos and designed to double as a passive heatsink for the {hardware} inside, is a service board designed to simply accept both an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano or Orin NX system-on-module. In consequence, specs range: when fitted with the entry-level Jetson Orin Nano board, the system may have a six-core Arm Cortex-A78AE processor operating at as much as 1.5GHz, an Orin graphics processor able to delivering as much as 20 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of compute for sparse workloads, and 4GB of 64-bit LPDDR5 reminiscence; the top-end Jetson Orin NX, in the meantime, comes with an eight-core processor operating at as much as 2GHz, a GPU pushing a claimed 100 TOPS for sparse workloads, and 16GB of 128-bit LPDDR5 reminiscence.
In all instances, the module runs with out lively cooling — counting on a direct thermal connection to the highest of the case to bleed off extra warmth. Elsewhere on the service board are twin gigabit Ethernet ports, powered by a Broadcom BCM5720 chip, an HDMI video output, an Infineon SLB9670VQ Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0), 4 USB 3.2 Gen. 2 ports, a single micro-USB 2.0 On-The-Go (OTG) port, a serial port selectable from RS232, RS422, and RS485, and a nine-pin D-sub connector for general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) pins with one other D-sub for CAN bus connectivity. There are areas for 4 non-compulsory SMA connectors, too, for exterior antennas.
The service board consists of twin gigabit Ethernet, 4 USB 3.2. Gen. 2 ports, and three M.2 slots hidden contained in the case. (📷: MSI)
These connectors, although, go nowhere by default: there is not any built-in wi-fi connectivity. As a substitute, MSI’s service board provides a trio of M.2 slots for non-compulsory add-ons: an M.2 E-key slot with PCI Categorical and UART serial connectivity, prepared for 2230-footprint boards; an M.2 B-key with USB 3.0, appropriate with 3242-footprint boards; and an M.2 M-key with PCI Categorical, good for 2280-footprint boards. Every little thing is powered by a 19V DC energy brick, exterior to the compact case itself.
Pricing and availability for the MS-C913 have but to be confirmed, with extra info accessible on the MSI web site.