Top Member Sheldon Bailey's Initial Impression of the Beagle Bone Black
The BeagleBone Black is the newest member of the BeagleBoard family. It
is a lower-cost, high-expansion focused BeagleBoard using a low cost
Sitara™ AM3358 ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor from Texas Instruments,
and can connect with the Internet and run software such as Angstrom and
Ubuntu. 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.
| Processor: TI Sitara AM3358AZCZ100, 1GHz, 2000 MIPS | |
| - 1 GHz ARM® Cortex™-A8 | |
| - SGX530 Graphics Engine | |
| - Programmable Real-Time Unit Subsystem |
| Memory: SDRAM: 512MB DDR3L 800MHZ | |
| - Onboard Flash: 2GB, 8bit Embedded MMC (eMMC) |
| SD/MMC Connector for microSD |
| 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) |
