BEAGLEBOARD

The BeagleBone® boards are low-cost, fan-less single-board computers based on low-power Texas Instruments processors featuring the ARM Cortex-A core with all of the expandability of today's desktop machines, but without the bulk, expense, or noise. BeagleBoard.org® provides an open source development platform for the creation of high-performance embedded designs.

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BeaglePlay®

BeaglePlay® is a user-friendly, open-source single board computer that simplifies adding sensors, actuators, and connectivity to an embedded system. Features include a 64-bit quad-core processor, WiFi, Gigabit Ethernet, sub-GHz wireless, and single-pair Ethernet with power-over-data-line. With compatibility with 1,000s of add-ons and a customized Debian Linux image, BeaglePlay® is ideal for human-machine interface designs. Affordable and easy to use, BeaglePlay® offers a positive development experience.

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BeagleConnect® Freedom

BeagleConnect® Freedom is an open-hardware IoT platform built with the TI CC1352P7 microcontroller and compatible with over 1,000 mikroBUS add-ons. Software support with the Zephyr RTOS enables custom solutions. For comprehensive IoT development, the platform includes various sensors, connectivity options, and JTAG connections.

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BeagleBone® AI-64

BeagleBone® AI-64 brings a complete AI and Machine Learning System to developers with the convenience and expandability of the BeagleBone® platform and the peripherals on board to get started right away learning and building applications. Leveraging over a decade of success in open hardware single board Linux computers, the BeagleBone® AI-64 puts a massive amount of computing power in an easy to use platform to build everything from autonomous robots to building automation.

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BeagleBone® Industrial

The element14 BeagleBone® Black Industrial is a low cost, high-expansion focused BeagleBoard® using a low cost industrial temperature grade Sitara™ AM3358 ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor from Texas Instruments. BeagleBone® Industrial ships with the Debian Linux distribution preinstalled on the onboard FLASH, ready to start evaluation and development.

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BeagleBone® Black

BeagleBone® Black is the most popular development board for developers and the avid hobbyist. It is a lower cost, high expansion focused BeagleBoard® using a low cost Sitara AM3358BZCZ100 Cortex A8 ARM processor from Texas Instruments. The board boots Linux in under 10sec and the user can get started on development in less than 5min with just a single USB cable.

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BeagleV-Ahead

BeagleV Ahead is an open-source RISC-V Single Board Computer (SBC) in the form factor of BeagleBone Black. It has the same P8 & P9 cape header pins as BeagleBone Black allowing you to stack your favourite BeagleBone cape on top to expand it’s capability.

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BeagleBone® Capes

BeagleBoard.org® Robotics Cape

4.3” Touchscreen Display Cape

5MP Digital USB Camera Module

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BeagleBone® Comparison Chart

	PocketBeagle®	BeagleBone® Black	BeagleBone® Black Industrial	BeagleBone® Blue	BeagleBone® AI
Processor	AM3358 Arm Cortex-A8	AM3358 Arm Cortex-A8	AM3358 Arm Cortex-A8	AM3358 Arm Cortex-A8	AM5729 2x Arm Cortex-A15
Maximum Processor Speed	1GHz	1GHz	1GHz	1GHz	1.5GHz
Co-processors	2x200-MHz PRUs, Arm Cortex-M3, SGX PowerVR	2x200-MHz PRUs, Arm Cortex-M3, SGX PowerVR	2x200-MHz PRUs, Arm Cortex-M3, SGX PowerVR	2x200-MHz PRUs, Arm Cortex-M3, SGX PowerVR	2x C66x, 4x EVE, 4xPRU, 4xArm Cortex-M4, 2x SGX Power VR
Analog Pins	2 (3.3V), 6 (1.8V)	7 (1.8V)	7 (1.8V)	4 (1.8V)	7 (4-wire touchscreen capable)
Digital Pins	44 (3.3V)	65 (3.3V)	65 (3.3V)	24 (3.3V)	72 (including 7 analog pins which are digital capable)
Memory	512MB DDR3 (800MHz x 16), microSD card slot	512MB DDR3 (800MHz x 16), 4GB on-board storage using eMMC, microSD card slot	512MB DDR3 (800MHz x 16), 4GB on-board storage using eMMC, microSD card slot	512MB DDR3 (800MHz x 16), 4GB on-board storage using eMMC, microSD card slot	1GB DDR3, 16GB on-board storage using eMMC, microSD card slot
USB	USB 2.0 480Mbps Host/Client Port, USB 2.0 on expansion header	USB 2.0 480Mbps Host/Client Port, USB 2.0 Host Port	USB 2.0 480Mbps Host/Client Port, USB 2.0 Host Port	USB 2.0 480Mbps Host/Client Port, USB 2.0 Host Port	USB 2.0 480Mbps Host/Client Port, USB 2.0 Host Port
Network	add-ons	10/100 Ethernet	10/100 Ethernet	WiFi, Bluetooth 4.1, BLE	Dual band WiFi, Bluetooth 4.2
Video	SPI displays	microHDMI, cape add-ons	microHDMI, cape add-ons	SPI displays	microHDMI, cape add-ons
Audio	add-ons	microHDMI, cape add-ons	microHDMI, cape add-ons	add-ons, Bluetooth	add-ons, Bluetooth
Supported Expansion Interfaces	3x UART, 4x PWM, 2x SPI, 2x I2C, 8x A/D converter, 2x CAN bus (w/o PHY), 2x quadrature encoder, USB	4x UART, 12x PWM/Timers, 2x SPI, 2x I2C, 7x A/D converter, 2x CAN bus (w/o PHY), LCD, 3x quadrature encoder, SD/MMC, GPMC	4x UART, 12x PWM/Timers, 2x SPI, 2x I2C, 7x A/D converter, 2x CAN bus (w/o PHY), LCD, 3x quadrature encoder, SD/MMC, GPMC	4x UART, 2-cell LiPo, 2x SPI, I2C, 4x A/D converter, CAN bus (w/ PHY), 8x 6V servo motor, 4x DC motor, 4x quadrature encoder	4x UART, 16-bit LCD interface, 2x I2C, 2x SPI, PWM, Timer, A/D, CAN, Encoder, GPMC etc.
On-board Sensors	-	-	-	10 degree of freedom IMU (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, thermometer), barometer/thermometer	-
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