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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
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