DSBOX-TX2NX Getting Started

In this blog post, we will explain how to getting started with DSBOX-TX2NX, an industrial fanless PC. DSBOX-TX2NX is a high valued and compact box PC with Nvidia Jetson TX2NX module. Rich industrial connectivity options such as RS232, RS485, CAN, digital I/O s together with high-speed interfaces like PCI (M.2), Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3 provide complete solutions for edge AI and industrial IoT applications. 

Here are some DSBOX-TX2NX visuals. 

The rear view of DSBOX-TX2NX can be seen like below. 

Before you plug-in the DC power cable, you should plug in Ethernet cable, keyboard, and mouse USB cables to USB ports and HDMI cable to HDMI port socket for monitoring the system. After connections are done, you can plug in the DC power cable to the “DC IN” socket. If you have an auto power version of DSBOX-TX2NX, the system runs as soon as you plug the DC power cable in. If you have another version, you should press the power button which is located on the front side. The DC Power Source should be in the range of 9-28 Volt DC. You can find the DC Power socket when you open the package of the product.  

You can see the power connector pinout below. The first and third pins are positive polarization, second and fourth pins are negative polarization.

You can have DC Power Adapter, GPIO Mating Socket, HDMI Cable, and Ethernet Cable as optional. 

For Jetpack Installation, please you can click here.

After you energize the board, the system runs. The industrial box pc has preinstalled operating system (Ubuntu 18.04) but if you can upgrade or downgrade the software version as you wish. When the Ubuntu Desktop shows up, you will need to user name and password. Both the user name and the password are “nvidia”.