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I hoped that it might be affordable like the TK1 dev board. But the card sized one is 300$/1k and the dev board 600$... 300$ for students. http://www.anandtech.com/show/9779/nvidia-announces-jetson-t...
It's astonishingly beefy, with games-console (or more) levels of computing power. Very few people need that on an embedded board.
Very impressive, but it feels expensive to me. I'm cheap though. The linked article was pretty light on the detail, and weirdly written. It never states how many cores the CPU has; I had to check Nvidia's page ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/jetson-tx1-dev-kit.html ) to find out: it's a quad-core so four cores. Some pretty nice low-level embedded-style I/O on there too (GPIOs, I2C, I2S, SPI, TTL UART).
According to Wikipedia it's 8 cores (big.LITTLE, so depending on the kernel and microarchitecture they might not all be usable at the same time): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra#Tegra_X1
Also would you need to add your own cooling here? The developer board looks like it has a beefy fan-based cooler whereas I don't see one on the module.
I'm curious: How are you supposed to use their card-sized module outside of the developer kit? Is the 400-pin connector something that's standardized? Also would you need to add your own cooling here? The developer board looks like it has a beefy fan-based cooler whereas I don't see one on the module.
Frustratingly the details for the connector are probably in the Embedded developer centre, which requires a registration. https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded-computing
I'm curious: How are you supposed to use their card-sized module outside of the developer kit? Is the 400-pin connector something that's standardized? Also would you need to add your own cooling here? The developer board looks like it has a beefy fan-based cooler whereas I don't see one on the module.
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It's astonishingly beefy, with games-console (or more) levels of computing power. Very few people need that on an embedded board.
This isn't an "embedded board".. It's got a GPU, it's got PCIe, it's 64-bit with 4 cores.
Another 64-bit ARM board out there: the Gigabyte MP30-AR0 http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#... http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/03/27/gigabyte-mp30-ar0-is-... . Unfortunately this one has limited distribution and $ask pricing.
The Gigabyte board would give me enough SATA ports and grunt to run a decent NAS - I think it'd give the C2750 from Intel a run for its money, power wise.
Your linked article has a comment suggesting the Gigabyte board retails for 987 Euros. Jeebus.
[1]: https://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.a... ($50+ JTAG boards... yay! /s)