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
Board Component Locations
