Pocket BeagleBone Board

Pocket BeagleBone Board

Meet PocketBeagle - the newest and smallest member of the BeagleBoard family. PocketBeagle is a low-cost development board for hobbyists, educators, and professionals. An ultra-tiny, yet complete open-source USB key-fob computer; PocketBeagle features an incredibly slick design and is very simple to use, making it the ideal development board for beginners and professionals alike.

Texas Instruments® Sitara™ AM3358 Processor (Integrated in the OSD3358-SM):

1. 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8 with NEON floating-point accelerator
2. SGX530 graphics accelerator
3. 2x programmable real-time unit (PRU) 32-bit 200MHz microcontrollers with single-cycle I/O latency
4. ARM® Cortex-M3 for power and security management functions

Memory:

1. 512MB DDR3 800MHZ RAM (Integrated in the OSD3358-SM)
2. 4kB I2C EEPROM (Integrated in the OSD3358-SM)
3. SD/MMC Connector for microSD

Software Compatibility

1. Debian GNU/Linux images customized for BeagleBone
2. Cloud9 IDE on Node.js w/ BoneScript library
3. Any BeagleBone Black software not needing access to unavailable expansion pins

Connectivity

1. High speed USB 2.0 OTG (host/client) micro-B connector (USB0)
2. Bootable microSD card slot (MMC0)

Expansion header

1. High speed USB 2.0 OTG (host/client) control signals (USB1)
2. 8 analog inputs with 6 at 1.8V and 2 at 3.3V along with 1.8V voltage references
3. 44 digital GPIOs accessible with 18 enabled by default including 2 shared with the 3.3V analog input pins
4. 3 UARTs accessible with 2 enabled by default (UART0, UART4)
5. 2 I2C busses enabled by default (I2C1, I2C2)
6. 2 SPI busses with single chip selects enabled by default (SPI0, SPI1)
7. 4 PWM outputs accessible with 2 enabled by default (PWM0A, PWM1A)
8. 2 quadrature encoder inputs accessible
9. 2 CAN bus controllers accessible
10. 23 programmable real-time unit (PRU) 32-bit microcontroller I/O pins including options for the PRU UART and eCAP accessible with 7 I/O pins enabled by default for PRU0 and 1 enabled by default for PRU1
11. 3 voltage inputs with 1 for battery, 1 shared with the USB connector and 1 for power-line input and a battery temperature sense input
12. 2 voltage outputs, 1 with a 3.3V LDO and 1 with switch from voltage input
13. Power and reset button I/Os

Power management:

1. TPS65217C PMIC is used along with a separate LDO to provide power to the system (Integrated in the OSD3358) with integrated 1-cell LiPo battery support

Debug Support:

1. JTAG test points
2. gdb and other monitor-mode debug possible

Power Source

1. micro USB connector
2. expansion header (3 options: battery, VIN or USB-VIN)

User Input / Output

1. Power Button with press detection interrupt via TPS65217C PMIC (hold for 10s to initiate hardware power cycle)

Applications:

• Electronics Design
• Hobby & Education
• IoT (Internet of Things)
• Embedded Design & Development

Package Includes:

1 x Pocket Beagle Bone Board

Specifications:

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Technical Datasheet - Pocket BeagleBone

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