BeagleBone Black is ideal for ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor developers and hobbyists

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BeagleBone Black is a low-cost, open source, community-supported development platform for ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor developers and hobbyists.

Boot Linux in under 10 seconds and get started on Sitara™ AM335x ARM Cortex-A8 processor development in less than 5 minutes with just a single USB cable. BeagleBone Black ships with the Debian GNU/Linux™ in onboard FLASH to start evaluation and development. Many other Linux distributions and operating systems are also supported on BeagleBone Black. These include Ubuntu, Android, and Fedora. BeagleBone Black's capabilities can be extended using plug-in boards called “capes.” Capes may be plugged into BeagleBone Black's two 46-pin, dual-row expansion headers. Capes are available for, VGA, LCD, motor control, prototyping, battery power and other functionality.

BeagleBone Black is applicable in robotics, motor drivers, Twitter printer, data backup, SDR base station, USB data acquisition, and more. Its board size is 3.4 inches by 2.1 inches. BeagleBone has 512 MB DDR memory, on-chip 10/100 ethernet, and 4GB eMMC memory that’s pre-loaded with Debian GNU/Linux™distribution (which frees up the microSD card slot). The platform has a fully functional terminal interface directly in the browser.

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