BeagleBone
AI - Fast Track for Embedded Machine Learning
BeagleBone® AI, a new addition to the BeagleBoard.org® BeagleBone® family, is a high-end Single Board Computer aimed at developers interested in implementing machine-learning and computer vision with simplicity.
BeagleBone® AI is the most powerful BeagleBone® ever developed with dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 running at 1.5 GHz, 16GB on-board eMMC flash, a SuperSpeed USB Type-C interface, Gigabit Ethernet and dual band wireless connectivity. BeagleBone® AI simplify the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in daily application via the TI C66x digital-signal-processor (DSP) cores, two dual-core ARM Cortex-M4 co-processors for real-time control, two dual-core Programmable Real-Time Unit (PRU) subsystems and four Embedded Vision Engines(EVEs) supported through an optimized TIDL machine learning OpenCL API with pre-installed tools. The BeagleBone® AI also has an additional dual-core PowerVR SGX544 3D GPU and a Vivante GC320 2D graphics accelerator. Focused on everyday automation in industrial, commercial and home applications.
BeagleBone® AI comes in a similar form-fact as BeagleBone® Black and compatible with many BeagleBone® Cape add-on boards make it easy to extend the functionality.
Features:
- TI AM5729 Dual Core ARM Cortex-A15 processor running at 1.5GHz
- Dual C66 DSP, Four ARM Cortex-M4, Four PRU and Four Embedded Vision Engine
- Four Programmable Real-time Units (PRUs)
- Memory: 1GB RAM and 16GB on-board eMMC Flash
- Connectivity: Gigabit Ethernet, 2.4/5GHz WiFi, and Bluetooth
- USB Type-C for power and superspeed dual-role controller
- USB type-A host
- Audio & Video: microHDMI
- Headers compatible with manyBeagleBone® Cape add-on boards
- Zero-download out-of-box software experience
Features
Processor & Co-Processors:
- 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
- 2x46 expansion headers compatible with many BeagleBone® cape add-on boards
- 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
- USB Type-A high-speed host
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Serial debug header
Wireless Connectivity
- 11ac 2.4/5GHz WiFi via the AzureWave AW-CM256SM
- Bluetooth 4.2 and Bluetooth Low Energy via the AzureWave AW-CM256SM
Out of Box Software
- Zero-download out of box software environment
- Self-hosted web IDE with local compilers, libraries and examples
- Debian distribution (initially version 9.9, 10.0 available)
- Linux kernel support (initially 4.14, with 4.19 and 5.2 available)
- Connectivity via USB gadget (network/serial), WiFi access point and station, Ethernet, and serial debug header
Ships With
- BeagleBone® AI Board
- Pre-mounted heatsink and antenna
- Pre-programmed with a Linux distribution, developers can get up and running in 5-minutes
- Quick Start Guide