Beaglebone Black BB-Black

What is BeagleBone® Black?

BeagleBone® Black is a low-cost, high-expansion, community-supported development platform for developers and hobbyists. Users can boot Linux in under 10 seconds and get started on development in less than 5 minutes with just a single USB cable. Like its predecessors, the BeagleBone® Black is designed to address the Open Source Community, early adopters, and anyone interested in a low cost ARM® Cortex™-A8 based processor. It has been equipped with a minimum set of peripherals to allow the user to experience the power of the processor and also offers access to many of the interfaces and allows for the use of add-on boards called capes, to add many different combinations of features. A user may also develop their own board or add their own circuitry.

Board Features

•  Memory
  • SDRAM: 512MB DDR3L 800MHZ
  • Onboard Flash: 4GB, 8bit Embedded MMC (eMMC)
• SD/MMC Connector for microSD
• Power management:TPS65217C PMIC is used along with a separate LDO to provide power to the system
• Debug Support: Optional Onboard 20-pin CTI JTAG, Serial Header
• Power Source
  • miniUSB USB or DC Jack
  • 5VDC External Via Expansion Header
• Connectivity
  • High speed USB 2.0 Client port: Access to USB0, Client mode via miniUSB
  • High Speed USB 2.0 Host port: Access to USB1, Type A Socket, 500mA LS/FS/HS
  • Serial Port: UART0 access via 6 pin 3.3V TTL Header. Header is populated
  • 10/100M Ethernet (RJ45)
• User Input / Output
  • Reset Button
  • Boot Button
  • Power Button
  • LED power indicator
  • 4 user configurable LEDs
• Video/Audio Interfaces
  • HDMI D type interface
  • LCD interface
  • Stereo audio over HDMI interface
• Expansion Interfaces via 2x 46 pin headers
  • LCD, UART, eMMC
  • ADC, I2C, SPI, PWM
• Compact Size of a Mint Tin

• 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8
• SGX 3D Graphics Engine
• NEON floating-point accelerator
• 2×32-bit 200-MHz programmable real-time units (PRUs)

BeagleBone Black hardware details

Revision A5 also provides a POWER button that can be used to enter and exit hibernate modes once that feature is implemented in the software.

Headers

The expansion headers provide extensive I/O capabitilities.

The contents of the set

• BeagleBone Black Industrial development board
• USB-A to Mini-B USB Cable
• The whole is closed in original box

Useful links

• Schematic
• Datasheet (AM3358)
• System Reference Manual
• BeagleBone Black Wiki
• Product Page
• GitHub