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The Jetson Family

Nvidia's Jetson family of products are compact Tegra computers, which feature a large number of parallel computation units that are suitable for hardware-accelerated machine learning applications. The various models differ in their computational performance.

JetPack

JetPack is Nvidia's name for a software bundle that contains development software and a modified version of Ubuntu Linux with a custom kernel for the Tegra hardware, called Linux For Tegra or L4T.


Figuring out the JetPack Version

You need to figure out the version of JetPack from the version of L4T, which is provided in the Debian package information: 

dpkg-query --show nvidia-l4t-core


L4T JetPack release date Ubuntu
32.5 4.5.0 2021-01-22 18.04
32.4.3 4.4.0 2020-07-06 18.04
32.3.1 4.3.0 2019-12-18 18.04
32.2.3 4.2.3 2019-11-19 18.04
32.2.0 4.2.1 2019-07-16 18.04


Assigning a Fixed Ethernet IP Address

You can either use the old ifconfig tool 

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

or the newer ip tool (the example below is incomplete) 

ip addr show
ip link set eth0 up


To make the IP address permanent, the easy way is to open the System Settings window from the Ubuntu GUI. Then

  • open the Network settings,
  • select the wired connection from the left hand list,
  • click on the "Options..." button in the bottom right corner,
  • open the "IPv4 Settings" tab,
  • change the value of the "Method:" field to "Manual",
  • enter the desired address (192.168.0.10) into the "Addresses" list.


Setting up WiFi

First, make sure that the WLAN hardware (maybe a USB stick) is operational. Check the availability of the wlan0 interface among all network interfaces: 

ifconfig


Also, make sure that wpasupplicant is installed. 

sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant

Now edit the file /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf to replace the "ssid" and "psk" values in the network example that starts with the line # Simple case: WPA-PSK: 

network={
    ssid="ssid_name"
    psk="password"
    priority=5
}

where ssid_name and password need to be replaced with the WiFi name (SSID) and the password of your router, respectively.
Finally, connect to the router: 

sudo killall wpa_supplicant
sudo wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D wext
sudo dhclient wlan0


Setting up SSH

The developer kit features HDMI and DisplayPort outputs for connecting to a display. In a robot, the control interface for the Jetson Nano will be a terminal session via SSH. To set up the SSH service on the Nano first make sure that the ssh package is installed: 

sudo apt install openssh-client openssh-server


You can now start the SSH service like this: 

sudo service ssh start

and stop it like this: 

sudo service ssh stop


To make the SSH service start automatically at each boot, type 

sudo systemctl enable ssh
sudo systemctl enable ssh.service
sudo systemctl start ssh

To prevent the system from starting the SSH service at each boot, type 

sudo systemctl stop ssh
sudo systemctl disable ssh
sudo systemctl disable ssh.service


SSH Login Over WiFi Connection

The Jetson Nano and the Jetson Xavier developer kit boards come without WiFi connectivity. You can use a USB WiFi adaptor stick (e.g., Edimax ) to add WiFi connectivity. On Ubuntu, you will need to give permission to the system to make the WiFi connection available to all other users, which includes the SSH daemon, in order to enable remote logins over WiFi without requiring an active local login session (via connected peripherals or Ethernet connection).
To give permission,

  • open the "System Settings" application,
  • go to "Network",
  • make sure "Wireless" is selected on the left panel,
  • on the right side panel, next to the SSID of the WLAN server, click on the arrow icon,
  • click on the "Settings..." button on the bottom right corner,
  • in the window that opens, go to the tab "General",
  • check the "All users may connect to this network" option


Camera

Cameras can be connected to Jetson Nano over USB or over the CSI connector. In case of a CSI camera, the image sensor must be a Sony IMX219, such as the Raspberry Pi Camera v2.
Use the Video For Linux utilityv4l2-ctl to list all video inputs that are available to the system and what type of image frames they provide. 

sudo apt install v4l-utils
v4l2-ctl --list-devices
v4l2-ctl --list-formats


You can view the video stream from the CSI camera using GStreamer 

gst-launch-1.0 nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM),width=1920, height=1080, framerate=30/1' ! nvvidconv flip-method=0 ! nvegltransform ! nveglglessink -e

where nvarguscamerasrc is a Gstreamer plugin for Nvidia's proprietary Argus Camera API for Linux on Tegra devices, and nveglglessink is a better-performing OpenGL sink than glimagesink. Curiously, nvarguscamerasrc will show up in the GStreamer element list when searching for elements of type video but not when searching for source/video. 

gst-inspect-1.0 -t video


Streaming Images Over The Network

To stream the camera images over the network via UDP, run the following script on the Jetson 

#!/bin/bash
STREAM_RECEIVER_ADDRESS=$1
STREAM_RECEIVER_PORT=$2
GST_LAUNCH="gst-launch-1.0 -v"
GST_DEBUG="--gst-debug=3"
INPUT="nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM),width=1280,height=720,framerate=30/1,format=(string)NV12' ! nvvidconv ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM),format=(string)I420'"

# Stream via RTP over UDP
STREAM_OUTPUT="omxh264enc bitrate=8000000 ! 'video/x-h264, stream-format=byte-stream' ! h264parse ! rtph264pay config-interval=10 pt=96 ! udpsink host=<host address> port=<port number>"

# Show in local GL window
VIEW_OUTPUT="nvegltransform ! nveglglessink -e"

if [ $# == 0 ]; then
    eval $GST_LAUNCH $INPUT ! $VIEW_OUTPUT
elif [ $# == 2 ]; then
    eval $GST_LAUNCH $INPUT ! $STREAM_OUTPUT
fi

where the client IP address and the client port number need to be supplied as arguments 1 and 2, respectively.

Run the following script on the client machine to receive and display the video stream in a GStreamer pipeline. 

UNPACK_RTP_H264_PAYLOAD="'application/x-rtp, media=(string)video, clock-rate=(int)90000, encoding-name=H264, payload=96' ! rtph264depay ! avdec_h264"
GST_UDPSRC="gst-launch-1.0 -v --gst-debug=3 udpsrc port=<port number>"
VIDEO_SINK="videoconvert ! autovideosink"

eval $GST_UDPSRC ! $UNPACK_RTP_H264_PAYLOAD ! $VIDEO_SINK

where you need to replace <port number> with the same port number used by the sender. Check the receiver's firewall settings to make sure the port is not blocked! On macOS you can do so by opening the Firewall settings and first add Terminal to the list of applications for which incoming connections are allowed. Upon launching the script, you will be prompted to allow incoming connections for gst-launch-1.0 as well.

The order in which the Gstreamer pipelines are launched is irrelevant because of the connectionless data transmission via UDP. The receiver will be continuously waiting for incoming UDP packets, and the sender will be sending out packets even if there is no receiver.

Resources


Power Modes

Use the nvpmodel command line tool for selecting or configuring the performance level of a Jetson device. You can query the current mode via 

sudo nvpmodel -q --verbose

and switch between modes with the "-m" option like this 

sudo nvpmodel -m <mode_number>


where <mode_number> is one of the mode numbers (e.g., 0 or 1) which the tool reads from the default configuration file "/etc/nvpmodel.conf" and which you can edit to create a custom mode: 

sudo vim /etc/nvpmodel.conf


Disabling USB Autosuspend

If you are operating your Jetson with an attached USB mass storage device you will need to disable USB autosuspend. Otherwise the device will become unavailable after a while, and your applications will report an I/O error.

Edit the file /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf by adding the following boot argument to the line starting with APPEND: 

usbcore.autosuspend=-1

This will disable autosuspend upon the next reboot.

To check that the autosuspend mode changed from active (2) to disabled (-1), enter 

cat /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/autosuspend


GPIO Programming

Jetson Nano Pinout

Based on the JetsonHacks pinout table.

Sysfs GPIO Name Pin   Pin Name Sysfs GPIO
3.3 V Power out 1 2 5.0 V Power in
I2C_2_SDA 3 4 5.0 V Power in
I2C_2_SCL 5 6 GND
gpio216 AUDIO_MCLK 7 8 UART_2_TX
GND 9 10 UART_2_RX
gpio50 UART_2_RTS 11 12 I2S_4_SCLK gpio79
gpio14 SPI_2_SCK 13 14 GND
gpio194 LCD_TE 15 16 SPI_2_CS1 gpio232
3.3 V 17 18 SPI_2_CS0 gpio15
gpio16 SPI_1_COPI 19 20 GND
gpio17 SPI_1_CIPO 21 22 SPI_2_CIPO gpio13
gpio18 SPI_1_SCK 23 24 SPI_1_CS0 gpio19
GND 25 26 SPI_1_CS1 gpio20
I2C_1_SDA 27 28 I2C_1_SCL
gpio149 CAM_AF_EN 29 30 GND
gpio200 GPIO_PZ0 31 32 LCD_BL_PWM gpio168
gpio38 GPIO_PE6 33 34 GND
gpio76 I2S_4_LRCK 35 36 UART_2_CTS gpio51
gpio12 SPI_2_COPI 37 38 I2S_4_SDIN gpio77
GND 39 40 I2S_4_SDOUT gpio78

Using SYSFS

The old, deprecated way of GPIO programming on Linux is to write to the sysfs files in /sys/class/gpio.

Here is an example bash code for blinking an LED connected to GPIO pin 11: 

echo 50 > /sys/class/gpio/export 
sleep 0.1
echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio50/direction
sleep 0.1
for n in {0..2}
	do
		echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio50/value
		sleep 1
		echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio50/value
		sleep 1
	done
echo 50 > /sys/class/gpio/unexport

Debug

To view the state of all the available GPIO pins type 

sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/tegra_gpio


Jetson Model Specifics

Jetson Nano

The Nano is the Jetson with the smallest footprint and lowest performance. It features 128 compute units based on the Maxwell architecture. The developer kit comes with host circuit board that provides connection ports like USB, Ethernet, HDMI and DisplayPort.


Power Supply and OS Installation

The Nano Developer Kit requires a power supply that can deliver 5 V and at least 2 A, either over the micro USB port, or via a standard 5.5/2.1mm barrel power jack, which requires bridging the J48 header pins with a jumper. When operated via the power jack, the micro USB port can be used to install the Nano operating system from an external computer. Otherwise, the OS image needs to be written to a micro-SD card that is inserted into the card slot of the developer kit.

Preconfigured Power Modes
  • mode 0 (MAXN)
    the default mode with maximum performance and up to 10 W power consumption
  • mode 1 (5 W)
    low-power mode where only two out of four CPU cores are working and the GPU clock frequency is constrained to keep power consumption under 5 W.


MAXN 5 W
power budget 10 Watts 5 Watts
CPUs in use 4 2
CPU max freq. 1479 MHz 918 MHz
GPU max freq. 921 MHz 640 MHz


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