In this section, you are going to learn about the carrier boards currently available for the Orin SoM.

The carrier board is the piece of hardware that offers the physical interfaces to use the Orin, the Orin SoM is connected to the carrier board using its 699-pin connector. Many customers start evaluating the Orin SoM using the developer kit offered by NVIDIA, and then once they have determined that this SoM meets their project requirements they proceed to design their custom carrier board or choose one of the carrier boards available in the market. Currently, there are two carrier boards designed for the Orin AGX: NVIDIA's Developer Kit and Connect Tech's Forge.

NVIDIA Developer Kit for Orin AGX

Figure 1 shows the NVIDIA's developer kit for the Orin:

It comes with the following interfaces:

Camera: 16 lane MIPI CSI-2 connector
PCIe: x16 PCIe slot, x8 PCIe Gen4

M.2 Key M
- x4 PCIe Gen 4

M.2 Key E
- x1 PCIe Gen 4, USB 2.0, UART, I2S

USB
- Type C: 2x USB 3.2 Gen2 with USB-PD support
- Type A: 2x USB 3.2 Gen2, 2x USB 3.2 Gen1
- Micro-B: USB 2.0

Networking
- RJ45 (up to 10 GbE)

Display
- DisplayPort 1.4a (+MST)

microSD slot
- UHS-1 cards up to SDR104 mode

Others
- 40-pin header (I2C, GPIO, SPI, CAN, I2S, UART, DMIC)
- 12-pin automation header
- 10-pin audio panel header
- 10-pin JTAG header
- 4-pin fan header
- 2-pin RTC battery backup connector
- DC power jack
- Power, Force Recovery, and Reset buttons

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