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BeagleBone Black -- better than Raspberry Pi


Sauraen
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Just started working with one of these for my job, and immediately started thinking about a possible port / extension of MIOS32!

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System:

  • $45
  • 1 GHz CPU with floating-point accelerator
  • 512MB DDR3 RAM @ 800 MHz (plus CPU caches and RAM)
  • 20M polygons/sec 3D graphics
  • Two 200MHz 32-bit PRU processors with separate cache and RAM

Included peripherals, all of the following supported simultaneously:

  • USB Client (miniUSB to computer)
  • USB Host (USB A to MIDI controller, etc.)
  • Ethernet
  • miniHDMI, up to 1080p @ 24fps
  • Onboard 2GB eMMC (bootable)
  • microSD card slot (bootable or data)
  • 3 bidirectional UART (MIDI ports) plus one additional UART output only
  • 1 SPI (DIN/DOUT) (there's two, but the other conflicts)
  • 1 I2C (GM5, etc.) (there's two, but the other conflicts)
  • ~20 free pins GPIO (SCS, software-based SPI for LCDs, parallel interface to SID, OPL3, etc.)

 

I know one of the problems with Raspberry Pi was the lack of support for a FreeRTOS-based solution. For this board, there's a library from TI (free but probably closed-source) that includes USB and Ethernet drivers intended to work in a no-OS or RTOS environment: http://beagleboard.org/project/starterware/

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