The Raspberry Pi Foundation makes some fun and well-supported single-board computers, but sometimes a small embedded system needs more graphical horsepower than…
The Raspberry Pi Foundation makes some fun and well-supported single-board computers, but sometimes a small embedded system needs more graphical horsepower than the four 300 MHz stream processors in the Raspberry Pi 3 can provide. Nvidia’s Jetson TX2 single-board computer module is ready to tackle that situation with its 256 Pascal SPs, six CPU cores, and 8GB of LPDDR4 memory. The machine also packs multiple Pi-pounding connectivity options with built-in USB 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth, and 802.11ac Wi-Fi.
Anyone who’s been paying attention to Nvidia’s press conferences of late probably knows that the company and its CEO Jen-Hsun Huang are obsessed with cars. To better fit automobiles, the Jetson TX2 sports a CAN bus interface for communicating with automotive embedded computer systems.
