Digi-Key - Beagleboard

The USB-powered Beagle Board is a low-cost, fan-less single board

computer utilizing Texas Instruments’ OMAP3530 application processor

that unleashes laptop-like performance and

expansion without the bulk, expense, or noise of typical desktop machines.

Beagle Board is based on an OMAP3530 application processor featuring an ARM® Cortex™-A8 running at up to 600MHz and delivering over 1,200 Dhrystone MIPS of performance via superscalar operation with highly accurate branch prediction and 256KB of L2 cache. Focal to Beagle Board experience is the high-speed USB 2.0 on-the-go (OTG) port that can be utilized to provide power to the board or to deliver highly flexible expansion. Standard PC peripherals can be connected to Beagle Board using the USB with a mini-A to standard-A cable adapter, DVI-D using an HDMI to DVI-D adapter, or through the MMC/SD/SDIO connector enabling a complete desktop experience.

To learn more about what can be done with Beagle Board, Digi-Key's OMAP3530 Beagle Board Product Training Module provides a discussion about Beagle Board's functionality and capabilities. Additional, information can be obtained through BeagleBoard.org where you can also get access to an active and growing development community.

Key Features:

Industry’s highest performance ARM
- 600MHz ARM Cortex-A8 (>1GHz ARM11 MIPS)
- NEON and VFP extensions for additional acceleration

State of the art POWERVR™ graphics hardware
- 10 million polygons per second
- Advanced tile-based rendering

Industry leading C64x+ DSP & video acceleration
- Streaming, portable media player, and high-res video

Tiny 3” x 3” PCB that can fit in your pocket
- Yet support for 1280x1024 DVI-D monitors

Learn more about the BeagleBoard's Features
at BeagleBoard.org

Community-Based Activity:

Development tools
Programming: gcc for ARM Cortex-A8
Programming: free, non-commercial TI compiler for C64x+
Utilities: serial and USB boot-loader tools

Kernels and drivers
Reference Linux kernel for testing board hardware
USB: hubs, keyboards, mice, Ethernet, WiFi, web cameras, and more

Linux distributions
Angstrom (Open Embedded), Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and more

User mode applications
Productivity: AbiWord, Gnumeric, GIMP
Multimedia: FFmpeg, MythTV
Gaming: ScummVM, solitaire

These are just some examples of on-going community development projects on Beagle Board.

Click here to purchase a BeagleBoard from Digi-Key today! Additional hardware and software development options are available for the OMAP Applications Processors, including evaluation modules, development kits, and TI and third party application software. Digi-Key also offers the following parts found useful to extend or develop with the BeagleBoard:

Cables & Adapters