Monday, July 1, 2013

BEAGLEBONE BLACK

The BeagleBone Black is the latest board of the Beaglebone board family.  With its credit-card-size
Linux computer, BeagleBone Black is a truly open hardware and software development platform.  It includes all the necessary accessories to start developing, providing a truly low cost embedded systems compared to the nearest competitor.  Furthermore, it is built on a proven ecosystem that speeds up development time for project, product or prototype.  

BeagleBone Black is built around the Sitara 1GHz AM335x ARM Cortex -A8 processor from Texas Instrument.  It provides a more advanced user interface and up to 150% better performance than ARM11.  Besides the powerful processor, BeagleBone Black has built-in 2GB Flash on-board helps to boost the overall performance.  It comes pre-loaded with Angstrom Linux distribution.  Large memory will also free up the use of microSD or used of additional storage.  Besides Flash memory, it has also comes with blazing speed 512MB DDR3 memory that helps to enhanced the user experience.  Other peripherals such as microHDMI, microSD, 10/100 Ethernet, USB host, etc. are available on-board.  It has an expansion header that provides access to digital I/O, analog input, serial communication port, and much more.

Developing on the BeableBone Black is similar to Arduino and the development software is available free-of-charge and open source.  BeagleBone Black is only selling for USD45.  This is a MUST TRY!!!

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