ros-acceleration / acceleration_firmware_jetson_nano

Firmware artifacts for the NVIDIA Jetson Nano board meant to accelerate ROS 2 robotic applications.

acceleration_firmware_jetson_nano

Board	Picture	Description
Jetson Nano Developer Kit		NVIDIA® Jetson Nano™ Developer Kit is a small, powerful computer that lets you run multiple neural networks in parallel for applications like image classification, object detection, segmentation, and speech processing. All in an easy-to-use platform that runs in as little as 5 watts.

This repository provides firmware artifacts for the NVIDIA Jetson Nano board meant to accelerate ROS 2 robotic applications.

NOTE: The binaries in this repo take various GB of data. Due to GitHub size restrictions, the whole source code is available in the following links:

• acceleration_firmware_jetson_nano_0.1.0.zip (3 GB)

Hardware Acceleration capabilities

According to REP-2008's proposal.

Capability	0.1.0
1. Kernel Levels
1.i level I kernels	⚠️ (only if VPI-enabled, see README)
1.ii level II kernels
1.iii level III kernels
2. Build System
2.i ament extensions	✓
2.ii ament_acceleration support
3. Build Tools
3.i hardware emulation (hw_emu)
3.ii hardware emulation (sw_emu)
3.iii image tooling
3.iv Linux kernel
3.iv.a modern Linux kernel
3.iv.b LTS Linux kernel
3.v hypervisor
3.v.a no control domain VMs
3.v.b guest VMs in disk
3.v.c control domain in disk
3.v.d no control domain VMs in disk
3.vi network booting
3.vi.a boot artifacts
3.vi.b rootfs
3.vi.c multi-network boot
3.vi.d secure network booting
3.vi.e save in disk network boot
4. Benchmarking
4.i kernel benchmarking	✓
4.ii ROS 2 acceleration benchmarking	✓
5. Documentation
5.i in-code documentation
6. Testing and CI
6.i acceleration_examples	⚠️ (see https://github.com/ros-acceleration/isaac_ros_image_pipeline)

Quality Declaration

No quality is claimed according to REP-2004. This package should only be used in workstations to produced valid firmware for the targeted hardware.