900719_FOCE : xFOCE - Beaglebone Evaluation This page last changed on Sep 11, 2012 by headley. # Evaluating Beaglebone as Gateway Node Hardware Candidate ### Beaglebone Specs/Features
Processor | AM3359 (ARM Cortex A8)
Instruction length | 32 bit
Clock frequency (MHz) | 500MHZ-USB Powered 720MHZ-DC Powered
RAM | 256MB DDR2 400MHZ (128MB Optional)
FLASH | None (256MB NAND Flash add-on board)
EEPROM | 32K
Floating Point | VFP
Input Voltage | ?
Programmer HW | ?
Programmer SW | ?
Bootloader | ?
PCB | 3.4" x 2.1", 6-layer
weight | 1.4 oz (39.68 grams)
Debug Support | USB to Serial Adapter On Board JTAG via USB miniUSB connector 4 USER LEDs Optional 20-pin CTI JTAG
Expansion Connectors | Power 5V, 3.3V , VDD_ADC(1.8V) 3.3V I/O on all signals McASP0, SPI1, I2C, GPIO(65) LCD, GPMC, MMC1, MMC2 7 AIN(1.8V MAX) 4 Timers 3 Serial Ports CAN0 EHRPWM(0,2) XDMA Interrupt Power button Battery Charger LED Backlight Expansion Board ID (Up to 3 can be stacked)
microSD card | Y
USB | Single USB 2.0 type A host port Dual USB hub on USB 2.0 type mini-A OTG device port On-board USB-to-serial/JTAG over one shared USB device port Storage-over-USB or Ethernet-over-USB on other USB device port
USART 5 | (4 w/ RTS,CTS)
Ethernet | 10/100
SPI | Y
I2C | 2
CAN | Y
Digital IO | 66 GPIO
ADC | 8
DAC | 0
PWM | 8 High Resolution Outputs- up to 6 single ended. ECAP PWM- 2 outputs
Timers | 4
Watchdog | N
RTC | N
external interrupt | Any GPIO can be used as an interrupt and is limited to two interrupts per GPIO Bank for a maximum of eight pins as interrupts.
vendor | mouser, digikey
form factor | custom 3.4"x2.1
cost | USD $90
features | ?
Build Environment | OpenEmbedded, bitbake
C, C++ | Y
Java | jamVM, openJDK, cacao
Language support | ?
Peripheral libraries | ?
OS support | Linux (Angstrom, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, ArchLinux)
Cost | ?
debugger | ?
IDE | ?
Command line | ?
User Support Angstrom | user/devel mailing lists, no forum, web
### Out of the box What's in the box Connect USB http, ssh, cloud9 Serial (USB) console Eject disk ### Toolchain, Environment VMWare Ubuntu Virtual Disk (SD Card) Angstrom Open Embedded, Bitbake ### Configuration, Packages #### Java VMs ##### Oracle SE Embedded ##### JamVM ##### OpenJDK #### Java Environment JAVA_HOME gnu.io.rxtx.SerialPorts #### RXTX #### LCM #### zeroMQ ### Building Build pre-defined image Customize image build add packages configure kernel Create disk image Partition and format microSD/mmc card Install disk image to SD Card ### Resources Beaglebone Reference http://beagleboard.org/static/beaglebone/a3/Docs/Hardware/BONE_SRM.pdf TI AM3559 Specs http://www.ti.com/product/Am3359 TI (Sitara) Linux Developers Guide for AM355X http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Sitara_Linux_Software_Developer%E2%80%99s_Guide TI AM355X data sheet http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/am3359.pdf

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