Introduction#

Built on the proven BeagleBoard.org® open source Linux approach, BeagleBone® AI fills the gap between small SBCs and more powerful industrial computers. Based on the Texas Instruments AM5729, developers have access to the powerful SoC with the ease of BeagleBone® Black header and mechanical compatibility. BeagleBone® AI makes it easy to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in everyday life via TI C66x digital-signal-processor (DSP) cores and embedded-vision-engine (EVE) cores supported through an optimized TIDL machine learning OpenCL API with pre-installed tools. Focused on everyday automation in industrial, commercial and home applications.

BeagleBone AI Overview#

BeagleBone® AI Features#

Main Processor Features of the AM5729 Within BeagleBone® AI#

Dual 1.5GHz ARM® Cortex®-A15 with out-of-order speculative issue 3-way superscalar execution pipeline for the fastest execution of existing 32-bit code
2 C66x Floating-Point VLIW DSP supported by OpenCL
4 Embedded Vision Engines (EVEs) supported by TIDL machine learning library
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
IVA-HD subsystem with support for 4K @ 15fps H.264 encode/decode and other codecs @ 1080p60
Vivante® GC320 2D graphics accelerator
Dual-Core PowerVR® SGX544™ 3D GPU