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Chapter 1. Introduction
This design guide contains recommendations and guidelines for engineers to follow to create
a product that is optimized to achieve the best performance from the interfaces supported by
the NVIDIA
®
Jetson
™
Xavier
™
NX System-on-Module (SOM).
This design guide provides detailed information on the capabilities of the hardware module,
which may differ from supported configurations by provided software. Refer to software
release documentation for information on supported capabilities.
Note: All occurrences of USB 3.2 refer to "USB 3.2 Gen 1x1: SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps" and "USB
3.2 Gen 2x1: SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps" only. Also note that Gen 1x1 and Gen 2x1 are referred to
simply as Gen1 and Gen2 in this design guide.
IMPORTANT: Throughout the design guide, references to “master” and “slave” configurations
have been updated to “initiator” and “target” respectively.
1.1 References
Refer to the following list of documents or models for more information. Use the latest
revision of all documents.
Jetson Xavier NX Data Sheet
Xavier (SoC) Technical Reference Manual
Jetson Xavier NX Module Pinmux
Jetson Xavier NX Thermal Design Guide
Jetson Xavier NX SCL (Supported Component List)
1.2 Abbreviations and Definitions
Table 1-1 lists the abbreviations that may be used throughout this design and guide and their
definitions.