AAEON, a leading provider of edge AI platforms, has announced the release of the BOXER-8654AI-KIT, a development kit equipped with either an 8GB or 16GB NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX module. While AAEON’s BOXER series has become synonymous with NVIDIA-powered embedded AI systems, the BOXER-8654AI-KIT provides its customers with an avenue to develop embedded solutions from the ground up.
The BOXER-8654AI-KIT’s module is accompanied by an advanced carrier board featuring a full-function I/O boasting six USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, an Out-of-Band (OOB) management box header, and four LAN ports with optional power boards for PoE functionality.
For display, the kit’s carrier board offers one physical HDMI Type-A port, as well as two MIPI CSI connectors, each equipped with four lanes to allow for two MIPI cameras to be installed per interface. Other physical I/O features that stand out are its two DB-9 ports, one of which offers an RS-232(RX/TX/GND)/422/485 signal, with the other providing a CANBus interface. Additionally, an NVIDIA Jetson-compatible 40-pin header offers I2C, SPI, UART, and other serial interfaces.
M.2 E and B-key slots allow for the installation of Wi-Fi and 5G modules, with the latter also offering an onboard SIM for cellular data transmission. Meanwhile, the BOXER-8654AI-KIT forgoes the onboard eMMC typically provided with AAEON’s system-level products, instead relying on an M.2 M-Key slot for high-performance NVMe SSD storage and a SATA slot.
The kit comes with a full catalog of pre-installed NVIDIA Jetpack 6.0 SDK components, such as CUDA, cuDNN, TensorRT, OpenCV, and DeepStream, as well as tools like Vulkan, VPI, and NVIDIA Nsight to allow users to streamline the development of high-performance graphics, AI inference, and multimedia applications, making it a very attractive option for those requiring access to the latest Jetpack updates with verified software support.
