Is The BeagleBone Black Future to Include a Quad Core Arm Processor?

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hopwork...@gmail.com

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Jun 15, 2015, 9:26:31 AM6/15/15
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I bought a RPI2 and love it, but I really love the BBB and it is the center of a lot of my projects. Is there plans to have a BBB with a quadcore processor like the RPI2? I hope so. And with a gig of ram? I know it will be higher in price, especially since it would most likely sport 4gb of flash memory. But it would be nice if future designs also featured another USB port. 4? That's over kill but nice. 2 would work for me although I always use a powered hub. An audio port would be nice too.

I just hope my wonderful BBB platform has plans for a multi-core processor. I can't find anything about that via google searches.

Thank you for your time!

Gerald Coley

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Jun 15, 2015, 9:30:00 AM6/15/15
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The next version is the X15. It has a dual A15, Dual DSPs, 2 M4s, two 3D accelerators, and 4 PRU processor cores. While that is not a Quad core per se, it does have 13 processors of various capabilities.

Gerald
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Yves_Pedneault2

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Jun 15, 2015, 9:51:57 AM6/15/15
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Two 3D accelerators that nobody can use because there is no support/info from the GPU IP maker or TI.
What's the point?
Useless!
 
 
Yves

Gerald Coley

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Jun 15, 2015, 9:54:19 AM6/15/15
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They are there to add weight to the package. Helps keep it balanced.

Gerald

Robert Nelson

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Jun 15, 2015, 9:54:37 AM6/15/15
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Yves_Pedneault2 <ype...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Two 3D accelerators that nobody can use because there is no support/info
> from the GPU IP maker or TI.
> What's the point?
> Useless!

http://git.ti.com/gitweb/?p=graphics/omap5-sgx-ddk-um-linux.git;a=summary

http://git.ti.com/gitweb/?p=graphics/omap5-sgx-ddk-linux.git;a=summary

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Gerald Coley

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Jun 15, 2015, 10:00:50 AM6/15/15
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Imagine that!

Gerald



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Yves_Pedneault2

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Jun 15, 2015, 10:01:55 AM6/15/15
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That's a good one :-))

Jason Kridner

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Jun 15, 2015, 10:42:50 AM6/15/15
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I saw at least some aspects of EVE in the documentation as well. Is that the #13? There are a couple more M3s I'd like to get to be programmable to get us up to 15. :-)

William Hermans

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Jun 15, 2015, 11:10:35 AM6/15/15
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Since no one mentioned it. The X15 should out perform the rPI 2
, largely. Right ?

Gerald Coley

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Jun 15, 2015, 11:12:13 AM6/15/15
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From what I hear, and Jason you would know more, the EVE is not being supported by TI and if I recall one of the M4s is not supported as well

We could add in the LCD controllers to the count.

Gerald

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