Circuitco: BeagleBoard-xM Board based on TI DM3730 Processor

Kit Overview

BeagleBoard-xMBeagleBoard-xM delivers extra ARM Cortex-A8 MHz now at 1 GHz and extra memory with 512MB of low-power DDR RAM, enabling hobbyists, innovators and engineers to go beyond their current imagination and be inspired by the BeagleBoard.org community. Designed with the community inputs in mind, this open hardware design improves upon the laptop-like performance and expandability, while keeping at hand-held power levels. Direct connectivity is supported by the on-board four-port hub with 10/100 Ethernet, while maintaining a tiny 3.25" × 3.25" footprint. The BeagleBoard-xM is not intended to be a complete development environment, but rather a community-supported platform that can be used as the basis for building more complete development systems and as a target for community software baselines. Currently, the BeagleBoard-xMBeagleBoard-xM is shipped with a micro SD card included that has an Angstrom demo loaded on it.

BeagleBoard-xMBeagleBoard-xM is based on the TI DM3730DM3730 and delivers increased perfromance over the BeagleBoard. The DM3730DM3730 high-performance, applications processor is based on the enhanced device architecture and are integrated on TI's advanced 45-nm process technology. This architecture is designed to provide best in class ARM and Graphics performance while delivering low power consumption.

Key Applications: Web services, 3-D gaming, 3-D UI, Linux kernel and driver development, Boot loaders and firmware, UI framework, ARM NEON codecs, Codec plug-ins for GStreamers, OpenGL applications, OpenMAX TM IL applications, Ubuntu TM , Android TM , MeeGo TM , WinCE TM , QNX TM , Angstrom, Symbian TM , Debian, Gentoo and others, Home media centers, In-vehicle entertainment, Robotics, Web kiosk.