BeagleBone AI

SKU: DEV-15758 Brand: Sparkfun

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Built on the proven BeagleBoard.org® open source Linux approach, BeagleBone® AI fills the gap between small SBCs and more powerful industrial computers. Based on the Texas Instruments AM5729, developers have access to the powerful SoC with the ease of BeagleBone® Black header and mechanical compatibility.

BeagleBone® AI makes it easy to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in everyday life via the TI C66x digital-signal-processor (DSP) cores and embedded-vision-engine (EVE) cores supported through an optimized TIDL machine learning OpenCL API with pre-installed tools. Focused on everyday automation in industrial, commercial and home applications.

Board Feature Highlights

BeagleBone Black mechanical and header compatibility
1GB RAM and 16GB on-board eMMC flash with high-speed interface
USB type-C for power and superspeed dual-role controller; and USB type-A host
Gigabit Ethernet, 2.4/5GHz WiFi, and Bluetooth
microHDMI
Zero-download out-of-box software experience with Debian GNU/Linux

Features

Board Feature Highlights

BeagleBone Black mechanical and header compatibility
1GB RAM and 16GB on-board eMMC flash with high-speed interface
USB type-C for power and superspeed dual-role controller; and USB type-A host
Gigabit Ethernet, 2.4/5GHz WiFi, and Bluetooth
microHDMI
Zero-download out-of-box software experience with Debian GNU/Linux

Main Processor Features of the AM5729 Within BeagleBone® AI

Dual 1.5GHz ARM® Cortex®-A15 with out-of-order speculative issue 3-way superscalar execution pipeline for the fastest execution of existing 32-bit code
2 C66x Floating-Point VLIW DSP supported by OpenCL
4 Embedded Vision Engines (EVEs) supported by TIDL machine learning library
2x Dual-Core Programmable Real-Time Unit (PRU) subsystems (4 PRUs total) for ultra low-latency control and software generated peripherals
2x Dual ARM® Cortex®-M4 co-processors for real-time control
IVA-HD subsystem with support for 4K @ 15fps H.264 encode/decode and other codecs @ 1080p60
Vivante® GC320 2D graphics accelerator
Dual-Core PowerVR® SGX544™ 3D GPU

Communications

BeagleBone Black header and mechanical compatibility
16-bit LCD interfaces
4+ UARTs
2 I2C ports
2 SPI ports
Lots of PRU I/O pins

Memory

1GB RAM
16GB on-board eMMC flash

Connectors

USB Type-C connector for power and SuperSpeed dual-role controller
Gigabit Ethernet
802.11ac 2.4/5GHz WiFi via the AzureWave AW-CM256SM

Out of Box Software

Zero-download out of box software environment

Documents

Documentation

Quick Start Guide

Block Diagram

Block Diagram

Board Component Locations

BoardComponentLocations

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Unit 18, 132 Garden Grove Parade
Adamstown
NSW, 2289
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