We are planning to use the ZED Carrier Mini board with an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Production Module that we already have. Before making the investment, we would like to confirm that our setup makes sense and that everything we intend to do is fully supported (we’d like to avoid any unexpected issues like we had with other carrier boards).
That this setup supports both cameras connected and running simultaneously, and that we’ll be able to use all relevant ZED SDK features for both (e.g. SLAM, stereo depth) in our headless system by connecting a dummy plug.
That there are no known issues with dual GMSL camera streaming on this board, assuming the port mapping is correct.
That the included 2-pin power connector comes with any pre-crimped cables, or whether it’s just the bare plug.
We just had one additional question regarding the GPIO header on the ZED Carrier Mini. In the documentation, it’s mentioned that the GPIO connector is “mainly used for debug and testing purposes”. We wanted to check:
Can this GPIO header be safely used for simple runtime operations, such as toggling a pin to switch between RS422-connected probes, while the ZED SDK is running?
We want to ensure there are no limitations or restrictions that would prevent runtime access to these pins during normal operation.
The GPIO pins are directly connected to the Jetson module GPIO pins, so you can use them normally as you would with any Jetson device.
Information concerning the pinout is available in the documentation.
The ZED SDK is not affected by the behaviors of the GPIO port, unless you are using a ZED X camera and you try to change the Device Tree configuration.