BeagleBone AI is here!

[Jason Kridner]

BeagleBoard.org® Launches BeagleBone® AI, Offering a Fast Track to Getting Started with Artificial Intelligence at the Edge

ROCHESTER, Mich., Sept.19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The BeagleBoard.org® Foundation today announces general availability of the newest, fastest, most powerful BeagleBoard.org® BeagleBone® low cost development board yet, and it’s driving a whole new AI revolution. Built on our proven open source Linux approach, BeagleBone® AI fills the gap between small single board computers (SBCs) and more powerful industrial computers. Leveraging the Texas Instruments Sitara™ AM5729 processor, developers have access to powerful machine learning capabilities with the ease of the BeagleBone® Black header and mechanical compatibility.

BeagleBone® AI makes it easy to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can be used in everyday life. Through BeagleBone® AI, developers can take advantage of the TI C66x digital-signal-processor (DSP) cores and embedded-vision-engine (EVE) cores on the Sitara AM5729 processor. Machine learning is supported by an optimized TI Deep Learning (TIDL) software framework and pre-installed software tools. Downloading and running the latest examples of edge inference algorithms and applications is only a few clicks away.

“This board is the answer to our community’s request to see the next major advancement in the BeagleBone® family” says Jason Kridner, co-founder of the BeagleBoard.org® Foundation. “Its feature set is jam packed and offers capabilities unparalleled by any other single board computer, open hardware or not.”

BeagleBone® AI has a feature set that includes:

• BeagleBone® Black mechanical and header compatibility

  • Works with existing BeagleBoard.org® BeagleBone® cape add-on boards and many available third-party cape add-on boards and enclosures

• 1GB RAM and 16GB on-board eMMC flash with a high-speed interface

• USB Type-C for power and superspeed dual-role controller; and USB Type-A host

• Gigabit Ethernet, 2.4/5GHz WiFi, and Bluetooth 4.2/BLE

• microHDMI video and audio output

• Zero-download out-of-box software experience

• TI Sitara™ AM5729 processor with:

  • Dual 1.5GHz Arm® Cortex®-A15 microprocessor subsystem

  • 2 C66x Floating-Point VLIW DSPs

  • 4 Embedded Vision Engines (EVEs) supported by the TIDL software framework library for machine learning

  • 2x Dual-Core Programmable Real-Time Unit (PRU) subsystems (4 PRUs total) for ultra-low latency control and software generated peripherals

  • 2x Dual Arm® Cortex®-M4 co-processors for real-time control and subsystem management

  • IVA-HD subsystem with support for 4K at 15fps H.264 encode/decode and other codecs at 1080p60

  • Vivante® GC320 2D graphics accelerator

  • Dual-Core PowerVR® SGX544™ 3D GPU
    

“We believe this board will excel in everyday automation in industrial, commercial and home applications” stated Christine Long, Executive Director of the BeagleBoard.org® Foundation. “And at an extremely competitive price point we’ve made this board available to everyone. It’s an industry game changer.”

BeagleBone® AI is available to buy as a standalone board, heat sink and antenna included, from BeagleBoard.org’s® key distribution partners. Visit http://beaglebone.ai.

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Sitara is a trademark of Texas Instruments 

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[Mala Dies]

Hello,

I saw that yesterday online at Mouser. Today, the email showed up. Nice!

Seth

P.S. I think you guys out-did yourselves. We shall see. Time to save a bit and then splurge on a nice, new board. Yea boy!

[William Hermans]

Mine is on the way.

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[RaulRa...@outlook.com]

Went to Mouser and bought one!

Now to teach that AI to make me more money...

[ser...@gmail.com]

Just bought one from Mouser few days ago, and experiencing overheating issue when startup, anyone else having the same problem?

[Richard Krehbiel]

On Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 2:07:17 PM UTC-5, ser...@gmail.com wrote:

Just bought one from Mouser few days ago, and experiencing overheating issue when startup, anyone else having the same problem?

Pretty much everyone is having this issue.  I put a fan on mine, it keeps it below 60°C .

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07H9TXW81/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

(I carefully pried off the mounted heatsink, and stuck this on.)

[William Hermans]

All you need is some air flow over the board/heatsinks. I just stick mine in front of a 20" box fan and it's fine. I'd assume a much smaller house fan would work fine as well.

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[Robert Forsyth]

As I said here https://groups.google.com/d/msg/beagleboard/s5KvPXMwcVQ/f5E8ELYNAgAJ

Several people updated their OS and the overheating started (the processor speed slow down on high temp stops working, maybe).

[KenUnix]

I have been informed the  RLYCPE-BBBCAPE 4 relay cape originally made for the BeagleBone Black

is not compatible with the AI. Is there someone who could verify this?