Monday, 27 January 2014

BeagleBone Black overview - Circuitco

BeagleBone Black Development Platform based on TI Sitara™ AM3358 Processor - Yiying Jan 2, 2014

http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-54121?CMP=KNC-APAC-Knode-NGBeagleB-SiteLink

...

Overview

The BeagleBone Black is the newest member of the BeagleBoard family. It is a low cost, high-expansion focused BeagleBoard using a low cost Sitara™ AM335x ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor from Texas Instruments.

BeagleBone Black ships with the Ångström Linux distribution preinstalled on the onboard FLASH, ready to start evaluation and development. Many other Linux distributions and operating systems are also supported by BeagleBone Black including Ubuntu, Android,  and Fedora. Like its predecessors, the BeagleBone Black is designed to address the Open Source Community, early adopters, and anyone interested in a low cost ARM® Cortex™-A8 based processor. It has been equipped with a minimum set of features to allow the user to experience the power of the processor and also offers access to many of the interfaces and allows for the use of add-on boards called capes, to add many different combinations of features. A user may also develop their own board or add their own circuitry.

The BeagleBone Black features TI's Sitara™ AM3358AZCZ100 microprocessor (Note: For the initial release, the board uses the Sitara XAM3359AZCZ processor. But eventually the board will move to the Sitara AM3358BZCZ100 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 the default boot source. The board is also populated with a single microSD connector to act as a 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.

In contrast to 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.

Now element14 offers BB-View, an touchscreen TFT LCD expansion capes for BeagleBone Black (& BeagleBone) board. The BB-View is available in two LCD display variants, 4.3” LCD & 7” LCD, the TFT LCD display can display up to the resolution of 480x272/800x480 with a 4–wire resistive touchscreen interface.

Key Applications: Robotics, motor drivers, Twitter printer, data backup, SDR base station, USB data acquisition and more.

Development Tools

Software Development Tools

IDE

Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio (CCStudio) TI ARM MCUs

CCStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for TI embedded   processor families. CCStudio comprises a suite of tools used to develop and debug embedded applications. It includes   compilers for each of TI's device families, a source code editor, project build environment, debugger, profiler, simulators,  a real-time operating system and many other features.

IDE ARM DS-5 ARM Cortex™-A  / Cortex™-R / ARM9™ / ARM11™

The ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) tool enable developers to get the best from their ARM technology-based systems. Whether implementing an ARM processor-based SoC or writing software for an Application Specific Standard Product (ASSP), ARM tools enable you to deliver the best solution with the highest performance and lowest power consumption. Learn More

Hardware Development Tools

Debuggers, Emulators & JTAG Tools

ARM DSTRM-KT-0181A ARM7 / ARM9 / ARM11 / Cortex-A / Cortex-R / Cortex-M DSTREAM Debug and Trace Unit

Debuggers, Emulators & JTAG Tools

Segger J-Link ARM Cortex™-M  / Cortex-R4 / Cortex-A / ARM7™ / ARM9™ JTAG/SWD Emulator with USB interface

Programmer

Segger Flasher ARM ARM Cortex™-M  / Cortex-R4 / Cortex-A / ARM7™ / ARM9™ Flash Programmer for ARM and Cortex cores

Reference Manual Circuitco: Reference Manual for BeagleBone Black Development Platform

Datasheet TI: AM335x ARM Cortex-A8 Microprocessors (MPUs)

Design Elements

Schematics Circuitco: Schematics for BeagleBone Black Development Platform
Layout Circuitco: Layout and Gerber files for BeagleBone Black Development Platform
BOM Circuitco: Bill of Material for BeagleBone Black Development Platform
CAD Model Circuitco: CAD Model for BeagleBone Black Development Platform

Kit Features

Processor: TI Sitara AM3358AZCZ100, 1GHz, 2000 MIPS

1 GHz ARM Cortex™-A8

SGX530 Graphics Engine

Programmable Real-Time Unit Subsystem

Memory

SDRAM: 512MB DDR3L 800MHZ

Onboard Flash: 2GB, 8bit Embedded MMC (eMMC)

SD/MMC Connector for microSD

Power management: TPS65217C PMIC is used along with a separate LDO to provide power to the system

Debug Support: Optional Onboard 20-pin CTI JTAG, Serial Header

Power Source

miniUSB USB or DC Jack

5VDC External Via Expansion Header

Connectivity

High speed USB 2.0 Client port: Access to USB0, Client mode via miniUSB

High Speed USB 2.0 Host port: Access to USB1, Type A Socket, 500mA LS/FS/HS

Serial Port: UART0 access via 6 pin 3.3V TTL Header. Header is populated

10/100M Ethernet (RJ45)

User Input / Output

Reset Button

Boot Button

Power Button

LED power indicator

4 user configurable LEDs

Video/Audio Interfaces

HDMI D type interface

LCD interface

Stereo audio over HDMI interface

Expansion Interfaces

LCD,  UART, eMMC

ADC, I2C, SPI, PWM

Operating Power: 5V@0.35A

Board Size: 3.4” x 2.1”

Kit Contents

The BeagleBone Black will ship with the following components:

BeagleBone Black Board

miniUSB to USB Type A Cable

Instruction Card

.END

No comments:

Post a Comment