BBONE-AI BeagleBone AI

What is BeagleBone^® AI?

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

Processor: Texas Instruments Sitara AM5729

• Dual Arm® Cortex®-A15 microprocessor subsystem
• 2 C66x floating-point VLIW DSPs
• 2.5MB of on-chip L3 RAM
• 2x dual Arm® Cortex®-M4 co-processors
• 4x Embedded Vision Engines (EVEs)
• 2x dual-core Programmable Real-Time Unit and Industrial Communication SubSystem (PRU-ICSS)
• 2D-graphics accelerator (BB2D) subsystem
• Dual-core PowerVR® SGX544™ 3D GPU
• IVA-HD subsystem (4K @ 15fps encode and decode support for H.264, 1080p60 for others)