On 28 October EIZO Rugged Solutions announced the development of the CONDOR Thor series of single board computers (SBCs), powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Thor platform.
The SOSA-aligned 3U VPX SBCs are designed for low-latency video ingest, multi-sensor processing and AI-accelerated computing at the edge and are intended for real-time ISR platforms, uncrewed systems and rugged edge computing environments where SWaP constraints and low-latency are critical. The SBC cards are engineered to ingest and process multiple ultra-high-definition video streams simultaneously, enabling multi-sensor fusion across ISR, radar and EO/IR systems.
Incorporating an NVIDIA Blackwell architecture and a 14-core Arm Neoverse V3AE CPU, the Jetson Thor module supports 128 GB of high-bandwidth LPDDR5X memory. The Blackwell architecture features 2,560 CUDA Cores and delivers up to 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS of AI performance. The module offers advanced edge-compute performance, AI capabilities and multi-sensor capabilities for AI-driven autonomy applications in a compact size.
“The Condor Thor 3U VPX series represents a major leap forward in AI edge computing with its integrated dual-compute architecture, combining a Blackwell GPU and Arm CPU on a single module”, explained EIZO CTO, Chris Fadeley. “While previous Jetson offerings focused on optimizing performance per watt at lower power, Jetson Thor is an uncapped powerhouse critical for the future success of AI in HPEC systems using 3U VPX.”
The Jetson Thor platform accelerates low-latency, real-time applications with new NVIDIA Blackwell Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) technology and third-generation Programmable Vision Accelerators (PVA). The Condor Thor SBCs will leverage these capabilities while providing high-speed I/O and video ingest options such as 12G-SDI, USB 3.2 and DisplayPort, along with external storage support.
For data-intensive, distributed sensor environments, the solutions also feature 10GbE Gigabit Ethernet and NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), enabling rapid communication between sensors, RF transceivers and platforms. In addition, the NVIDIA Jetson Thor SoM integrates dedicated GPU hardware accelerators for multi-stream video decoding (NVDEC) and encoding (NVENC), ensuring efficient handling of multiple ultra-high-resolution video feeds.
The Condor Thor 3U VPX Series is designed to meet both VITA 46/65 and SOSA Open Architecture technical standards. The product line is currently in development, with customer engagement underway for upcoming programmes, the company states.
Image of a Jetson Thor module courtesy EIZO Rugged Solutions
