The BeagleBone Black features TI's Sitara™ XAM3358AZCZ100 microprocessor, which is based on ARM® Cortex™-A8 core with enhanced image, graphics processing, peripherals and industrial interface options such as EtherCAT and PROFIBUS. The board is equipped with 256Mb x16 DDR3L 4Gb (512MB) SDRAM, 32KB EEPROM, and 2GB embedded MMC (eMMC) Flash as default boot source. The board is also populated with a single microSD connector to act as the secondary boot source for the board and, if selected as such, can be the primary boot source. The BeagleBone Black supports four boot modes, including eMMC boot, microSD boot, serial boot, and USB boot. A switch is provided to allow switching between the modes.
Different from the original BeagleBone, the BeagleBone Black has an onboard HDMI interface to connect directly to TVs and monitors. Other features include a 10/100 Ethernet interface, a serial debug port, a PC USB interface, an USB 2.0 host port, a reset button, a power button, and five indicating blue LEDs. The BeagleBone Black has the ability to accept up to four expansion boards or capes that can be stacked onto the expansion headers. The majority of capes designed for the original BeagleBone will work on the BeagleBone Black.
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I couldn't wait for the road test, so I just bought one instead. The picture is great on my HP monitor, but the top and bottom gets cut off using the HDMI on my Sylvania TV. I will post more as I progress......stay tuned to this channel. -Scott
I think it has a +, that it has duos tu runn along with main cpu.its all in one. and you can send comads to dous to control some PWMs ore something. Main CPU looks realy powerful. Even with quadcore 1GHz.
Only real downside I see (in contrast to the Pi) is the lack of a stereo out port.. It's not a problem if you're using hdmi, but when you are running headless, it might be a problem. Although you could just use an usb audio-card.. (Or write a pwm driver I suppose, or a sound breakout of the hdmi port..)
And as I have read, Pi has 800 MHz processor, but its real time processing is similar 300 MHz computer or something. What I can tell, Pi has realy good GPU. Way faster then CPU, someone sead that GPU is about 90% of the Pi chips power. Video is realy greate on it. I have one at home. Now I'll be using it as a server for controlling a robot over internet from PC or android device. Now making app for Pi, and apps for robot PC and controling pc, after that for android devices.
I'd like to test BeagleBone Black with Pi, but I do not expect to get it, so I will not parcisipate
By the way does BeagleBones Black I/O pins are buffered or directly from main chip like on Pi?
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As much as I would love to enroll for this RoadTest, I am currently having way too much fun with my new Raspberry Pi
best wishes to all who enroll!
Making of video, see how they make the Beaglebone Black
Beagle Bone better!