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Introduction#

BeagleY-AI is an open-source single board computer designed for edge AI applications.

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Detailed overview#

BeagleY-AI is based on the Texas Instruments AM67A Arm-based vision processor. It features a quad-core 64-bit Arm®Cortex®-A53 CPU subsystem at 1.4GHz, Dual general-purpose C7x DSP with Matrix Multiply Accelerator (MMA) capable of 4 TOPs each, Arm Cortex-R5 subsystem for low-latency I/O and control, a 50 GFlop GPU, video and vision accelerators, and other specialized processing capability.

Table 2 BeagleY-AI features#

Feature

Description

Processor

Texas Instruments AM67A, Quad 64-bit Arm® Cortex®-A53 @1.4 GHz, multiple cores including Arm/GPU processors, DSP, and vision/deep learning accelerators

RAM

4GB LPDDR4

Wi-Fi

Beagleboard BM3301, 802.11ax Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4 (BLE)

USB Ports

4 x USB 3.0 TypeA ports supporting simultaneous 5Gbps operation, 1 x USB 2.0 TypeC, supports USB 2.0 device mode

Ethernet

Gigabit Ethernet, with PoE+ support (requires separate PoE HAT)

Camera/Display

2 x 4-lane MIPI camera connector (one connector muxed with DSI capability)

Display Output

1 x HDMI display, 1 x OLDI display, 1 x DSI MIPI Display

Real-time Clock (RTC)

Supports external coin-cell battery for power failure time retention

Debug UART

1 x 3-pin debug UART

Power

5V/3A DC power via USB-C

Power Button

On/Off included

PCIe Interface

PCI-Express® Gen3 x 1 interface for fast peripherals (requires separate M.2 HAT or other adapter)

Expansion Connector

40-pin header

Fan connector

1 x 4-pin fan connector, supports PWM control and fan speed measurement

Storage

microSD card slot with UHS-1 support

Tag Connect

1 x JTAG, 1 x External PMIC programming port

AM67A SoC#

Todo

Add AM67A SoC details

Board components location#

BeagleY-AI board front components location
Table 3 BeagleY-AI board front components location#

Feature

Description

WiFi/BLE

Beagleboard BM3301 with 802.11ax Wi-Fi & Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4 (BLE)

RAM

4GB LPDDR4

Expansion

40pin Expansion header compatible with HATs

SoC

TI AM67A Arm®Cortex®-A53 4 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 4 cameras, machine vision, robotics, and smart HMI

Fan

4pin Fan connector

USB-A

4 x USB 3 TypeA ports supporting simultaneous 5Gbps operation host ports

Network Connectivity

Gigabit Ethernet

PoE

Power over Ethernet HAT connector

Camera/Display

1 x 4-lane MIPI camera/display transceivers, 1 x 4-lane MIPI camera

Debug UART

1 x 3-pin JST-SH 1.0mm debug UART port

Display Output

1 x HDMI display

USB-C

1 x Type-C port for power, and supports USB 2 device

PMIC

Power Management Integrated Circuit for 5V/5A DC power via USB-C with Power Delivery support

Bicolor LED

Indicator LED

Power button

ON/OFF button

PCIe

PCI-Express® Gen3 x 1 interface for fast peripherals (requires separate M.2 HAT or other adapter)