Jetson

General information

• Jetson nano https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-nano/.
• https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-modules
• CPU Tegra X1 4x A57 @ 1.43 GHz (ARMv8), GPU 128 cores of Maxwell generation @ 921 MHz (cf GeForce GT 1030 SC 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile Graphic Cards has 384 CUDA cores)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Jetson
• https://elinux.org/Jetson_Nano
• Power consumption: when it is idle, it uses .44A.

More

• Now One Of The BEST SBCs For Emulation Project ARES On The Jetson Nano ETA Prime, ARES for the Jetson Nano, Tech Toy Tinker Company
• Create your own image for jetson nano board
• Introduction to CUDA Programming With Jetson Nano

4GB vs 2GB

Comparison between Jetson Nano 2GB and Jetson Nano 4GB

ARMv8, ARMv9

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family
• ARMv8 is an ARM instruction set architecture announced in 2011. It brought a large number of fundamental changes to the instruction set, including the introduction of 64-bit operating capabilities. ARMv8 architecture uses two execution states, AArch32 and AArch64. As the names imply, one is for running 32-bit code and one for 64-bit.
• After ARMv8, which was introduced in 2011, ARM introduced ARMv9 architecture.
• According to ARM, some of the major new features of the ARMv9-A architecture include Realm Management Extension (RME) and Embedded Trace Extension (ETE) and Trace Buffer Extension (TRBE).
• Apple M1 chip or M2 chip is based on ARMv8.5-A instruction set architecture.

Vs Raspberry Pi 4

The two motherboard are similar:new Raspberry Pi has the same arch and almost the same processor (nvidia one is older). VLC doesn’t work on Nvidia Jetson Nano

Get started

• Getting Started with Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kit. Jetson 2GB Developer Kit User Guide. How-to guides. NVIDIA AI tutorials and courses.
• Getting Started: Nvidia Jetson Nano, Object Detection and Classification.

  sudo apt-get update 
  sudo apt-get install v4l-utils
  v4l2-ctl --list-devices --list-formats
  
  ./imagenet-camera.py --camera=/dev/video0 
  ./detectnet-camera.py --camera=/dev/video0 
  

• Self-paced, online training from NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING INSTITUTE

Hello AI World

* https://github.com/dusty-nv/jetson-inference

Ubuntu 20.04

Install Ubuntu 20.04 on Jetson Nano

Tips

Boot from USB

• https://github.com/jetsonhacks/bootFromUSB 2021, Jetson Nano – Boot from USB 2021
  • Boot Jetson nano from a micro SD card
  • git clone https://github.com/jetsonhacks/bootFromUSB.git
  • Disks > Format > GPT > '+' > SSD240
  • Mount SSD. ls /dev/sd*
  • ./copyRootToUSB.sh -p /dev/sda1
  • cd /media/USERNAME/SSD240/boot/extlinux
  • sudo cp extlinux.conf extlinux.conf.bak
  • ./partUUID.sh
  • sudo gedit extlinux.conf
  • Shutdown. Remove SD card. Bingo.
• How to Boot Jetson Nano From USB 3.0 (Natively) with Jetpack 4.5 2021
• Nvidia Jetson Nano Boot from USB 2020
• etson Nano – Run on USB Drive 2019. Use a swap file, not a swap partition.

Low memory problem in Jetson nano

* Low memory problem in Jetson nano

GPU benchmark

* Nvidia Jetson Nano Review and Benchmark * Glmark2. Glmark2 is an OpenGL 2.0 and ES 2.0 benchmark. glmark2 is a cross-platform tool that can be used to test the performance of the GPU on both platforms with and without CUDA cores. ** sudo apt-get install glmark2 * LuxMark

System monitor

jtop

jtop: The Ultimate Tool for Monitoring NVIDIA Jetson Devices

sudo pip3 install -U jetson-stats
jtop

Tegrastats Utility

• tegrastats
• Jetson Linux Development Tools

Hardware acceleration

• Hardware decoding in mpv player. totem is gstreamer based.
• https://github.com/jocover/jetson-ffmpeg

swap

• https://github.com/JetsonHacksNano/installSwapfile
• Jetson Nano – Even More Swap

Alternative OS

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/alternative-os/75649

LineageOS

• https://download.lineageos.org/porg
• Download and Install GApps for Lineage OS
• Lineage Android OS for the Jetson Nano
• Nvidia Jetson (Nano / Nano 2GB) [Tablet (porg_tab)]
  • HowTo: Recovery Mode for NVIDIA Jetson NANO Developer Kit
  • FR = factory recovery mode
• Video: Lineage OS on the Nvidia Jetson Nano!

ARES: aurora retro entertainment system

• https://techtoytinker.com/nvidia-jetson-nano. Username/password: aresuser/thera
• Nvidia Jetson Nano ARES Stable 1 Release

Kodi

• https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/kodi-18-on-nano/125448
• https://elinux.org/Jetson/Kodi_(XBMC) Jetson TK1