[TangerineSDR] NVIDIA Jetson Nano SBC

[David Witten]

I see a lot of interest on these lists in the NVIDIA Jetson Nano SBC.  They
are very interesting boards that seem to have real potential for persons
interested in software defined radio.  I have two supposedly arriving today.

I question whether this is the board that one want's to learn Linux on, but
I'm sure that it can be done.  The software packages are complex and aimed
at Deep Learning (AI) applications.

And a word of caution may be in order.  As it says on the the various
websites, this is a "Developer's Kit" version at present, and the
"Production Versions" to be released in June may have some differences.  My
reading of responses to questions posted on the NVIDIA developer's forum
suggests that these may well be differences may be significant in some
cases.

According to dusty_nv "The latest revision of the devkit will be released
in June, for the same $99 with MicroSD card slot. The $129 is for the
production module with eMMC.".  Personally, I would find the eMMC version
much more desirable.

The NVIDIA staff monitoring the developers forum have stated that some
decisions regarding final allocation of signals on the boards were not set
in stone.  I cannot find this reference at the moment, but this might cause
changes for early adopters.

I have NVIDIA Xavier (a bigger sibling of this board) that I bought in an
"developer's preview' last August, and have not had any problem since the
official product was launched.  NVIDIA's support is good.

I have taken some of their online and in-person classes.  I see that two
free ones have been announced for the Nano.  But it is important to sign up
for their developer's program and to use their online resources.  These are
surprisingly complex little beasts.

Dave, KD0EAG
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