expansion connector spec?

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Andrew Goh

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Sep 14, 2016, 9:30:08 AM9/14/16
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On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 9:10:55 PM UTC+8, m...@yapatel.com wrote:
> Hi -
> Is the part number/spec for the expansion connector available somewhere or still waiting for public release? Was unable to find anything with go-ogle.

On Friday, February 19, 2016 at 1:04:52 AM UTC+8, Gerald Coley wrote:
> Mating connector is Hirose FX18-60S-0.8SV15       
>  
> Gerald

it'd seem a little unfortunate that the connector is 'custom' but i'd guess there's little choice given the high density
somewhat concerned if home / hobby interfacing patching circuits may be difficult
the other thing would be how capes would evolve from here, nevertheless, those high-density connectors / interface is a good thing
it packs a pci-express in there if i'm correct about it

Gerald Coley

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Sep 14, 2016, 9:51:56 AM9/14/16
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It is not a custom part. It is a standard product offered by Hirose. I tried using the connectors used on the BeagleBone Black. I could not pull the boards apart. And there were signal integrity concerns on the SATA and PCIe signals

Gerald


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Andrew Goh

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Sep 14, 2016, 10:14:22 AM9/14/16
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thanks for clarifying, no worries, i think it is a good development nevertheless, i'd guess as with new boards it'd take some time for the community (and add-on/cape makers) to come up with the 'add-ons' capes etc which hopefully would become a new eco-system 

Gerald Coley

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Sep 14, 2016, 10:20:24 AM9/14/16
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This is not a BeagleBone Black, not even close. This is a whole different, complex and powerful beast. I am working on add on boards at the moment and should have some things out soon. Hopefully this will help to somewhat solidify an add-on board strategy. It is tough to make it as simple as the BeagleBone Black. Way too many variables.

Gerald


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Andrew Goh

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Sep 14, 2016, 10:32:39 AM9/14/16
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no worries, imho beagleboards, beagle bone black etc, raspberry pi etc had the 'public' 'discover' or become aware of a niche in the sense of 'form factor'

the old pc desktops are bulky computers by today's standards, laptops, netbooks, tablets, mobile phones are 'non-expandable'
intel compute stick, chrome-bit stick, nuc still fills into the 'non-expandable' category

beagleboards as it seemed is starting to fill this 'new' niche

Andrew Goh

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Sep 14, 2016, 11:59:58 AM9/14/16
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while the concept isn't really new some of the concepts made possible by today's soc e.g. such as integrated lcd controller or gpu + a host of other io features e.g. adc / dac etc made and other on soc modules possible new use cases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VIA_Mainboards_Form_Factor_Comparison.jpg

recently while trying out the beaglebone black i've actually assembled what is the equivalent of BBB + 7" lcd and found it a very usable computer and it is still possible to patch simple circuits or low speed io boards (e.g. spi / i2c or simply analog inputs ) into the BBB
https://youtu.be/Xw-y3F3Yp0Q

i'd think x15 would find new use cases just as BBB has, i'd think x15 can easilly integrate/interface say an fpga board and become a full blown say high speed multi channel 100m samples/s digital signal analyzer & it'd be possible to go well beyond with applications

Dennis Lee Bieber

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Sep 14, 2016, 8:14:41 PM9/14/16
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:19:58 -0500, Gerald Coley
<ger...@beagleboard.org> declaimed the following:

>This is not a BeagleBone Black, not even close. This is a whole different,
>complex and powerful beast. I am working on add on boards at the moment and
>should have some things out soon. Hopefully this will help to somewhat
>solidify an add-on board strategy. It is tough to make it as simple as the
>BeagleBone Black. Way too many variables.
>
Maybe the first board should just be an I/O break-out board --
something that provides lots of common 0.1" sockets/pins on which this
system rides...
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Gerald Coley

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Sep 14, 2016, 8:25:21 PM9/14/16
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The layout for the first of two boards has just completed. We are working on the second board layout now.

Gerald

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Catudal Michel

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Nov 9, 2016, 12:06:43 PM11/9/16
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Any CAN addon board?


Le mercredi 14 septembre 2016 10:20:24 UTC-4, Gerald a écrit :
This is not a BeagleBone Black, not even close. This is a whole different, complex and powerful beast. I am working on add on boards at the moment and should have some things out soon. Hopefully this will help to somewhat solidify an add-on board strategy. It is tough to make it as simple as the BeagleBone Black. Way too many variables.

Gerald

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thanks for clarifying, no worries, i think it is a good development nevertheless, i'd guess as with new boards it'd take some time for the community (and add-on/cape makers) to come up with the 'add-ons' capes etc which hopefully would become a new eco-system 

On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 9:51:56 PM UTC+8, Gerald wrote:
It is not a custom part. It is a standard product offered by Hirose. I tried using the connectors used on the BeagleBone Black. I could not pull the boards apart. And there were signal integrity concerns on the SATA and PCIe signals

Gerald

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Gerald Coley

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Nov 9, 2016, 1:47:08 PM11/9/16
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Not yet. But if there is real demand, there could be.

Gerald


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Catudal Michel

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Nov 9, 2016, 1:50:38 PM11/9/16
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Is there any eagle or kicad library for the connector used?


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Gerald Coley

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Nov 9, 2016, 1:53:31 PM11/9/16
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No that I have seen. These connectors are very expensive.
But the boards i have coming don't use these, per se.. They have standard .1 spaced connectors for add on boards. More like an adapter.
 
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tony.lang...@gmail.com

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Aug 16, 2017, 9:41:03 AM8/16/17
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Hi Gerald,

Now that the Rev C boards are publicly available, do you have any update on your expansion boards?

Tony

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Gerald Coley

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Aug 16, 2017, 9:42:31 AM8/16/17
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Not at the moment.

 

Gerald

Robert Nelson

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Aug 16, 2017, 9:44:01 AM8/16/17
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 4:08 AM, <tony.lang...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gerald,
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> Now that the Rev C boards are publicly available, do you have any update on
> your expansion boards?


it would be nice to see a breakout, with pci-e like the am57xx ti
adapter board, and with all the pruss pin's exported. ;)

Wonder if it could be something put up on groupgets?

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Gerald Coley

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Aug 16, 2017, 9:45:21 AM8/16/17
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That is what I have.

Gerald


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