BeagleBone Black

3 Connecting Up Your BeagleBone Black 9 4 BeagleBone Black Overview 19 5 BeagleBone Black High Level Specification 25

5.4.9 HDMI Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.4.10 Cape Board Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Detailed Hardware Design 6.1 Power Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.1.1 TPS65217C PMIC . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.1.2 DC Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.1.3 USB Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.1.4 Power Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.1.5 Power Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.1.6 Battery Access Pads . . . . . . . . . . 6.1.7 Power Consumption . . . . . . ....

8 Cape Board Support 77 9 BeagleBone Black Mechanical 93

BeagleBone Black BeagleBone Black is a low-cost, community-supported development platform for developers and hobbyists. Boot Linux in under 10 seconds and get started on development in less than 5 minutes with just a single USB cable.

BeagleBone Black

Introduction This document is the System Reference Manual for the BeagleBone Black and covers its use and design. The board will primarily be referred to in the remainder of this document simply as the board, although it may also be referred to as the BeagleBone Black as a reminder. There are also references to the original BeagleBone as well, and will be referenced as simply BeagleBone. This design is subject to change without notice as we will work to keep improving the design as the product matures based on feedback and experience. Software updates will be frequent and will be independent...

BeagleBone Black

This section describes the change history of this document and board. Document changes are not always a result of a board change. A board change will always result in a document change. Table 2.1: AsciiDoc Change History A5 Production release January 8.2013 GC 1. Added information on Power button and the battery access points. 2. Final production released version. 2. Added numerous pictures of the Rev A5A board. 1. Updated serial number locations. 2. Corrected the feature table for 4 UARTS 3. Corrected eMMC pin table to match other tables in the manual. 1. Corrected revision listed in section...

BeagleBone Black Table 2.1 - continued from previous page 2. The LEDS were dimmed by changing the resistors. 3. The serial termination mode was incorporated into the PCB. 2. Added PRU/ICSS options to tables for P8 and P9. 3. Added section on USB Host Correct modes on «table-15». 1. Updated assembly revision to A6. 2. PCB change to add buffer to the reset line and ground the oscillator GND pin. 3. Added resistor on PCB for connection of OSC_GND to board GND. 1. Changed the eMMC from 2GB to 4GB. 2. Added additional supplier to DDR2 and eMMC. 1. Added note to recommend powering off the board with...

BeagleBone Black • Added reset option (GPIO1_8) for Ethernet PHY to avoid possible start-up issue. See https://git. beagleboard.org/beagleboard/beaglebone-black/-/issues/4. • Added series resistors to MMC1 lines and depopulated C24. • Connected pin A6 of J5 on U13 (eMMC IC) to DGND. • Changed USB1_VBUS series resistor to 0 ohm. • Change required PCB revision to C. Initial boxes mistakenly say rev C1. • Update memories based on availability. See https://github.com/beagleboard/beaglebone-black/commit/ 74914bd01efeb61376ec3dda4bf9143ad2bb635c. • Update memories based on availability. See https://github.com/beagleboard/beaglebone-black/commit/...

BeagleBone Black • Change required PCB revision to B6. • In random instances there could be a glitch in the SYS_RESETn signal from the processor where the SYS_RESETn signal was taken high for a momentary amount of time before it was supposed to. To prevent this, the signal was ORed with the PORZn (Power On reset). • Noise issues were observed in other design where the clock oscillator was getting hit due to a suspected issue in ground bounce. A zero ohm resistor was added to connect the OSC_GND to the system ground. There are no new features added as a result of these changes. We were seeing...

This section provides instructions on how to hook up your board. Two scenarios will be discussed: 2. As a standalone development platform in a desktop PC configuration. In the box you will find three main items as shown in «figure-1». • BeagleBone Black • miniUSB to USB Type A Cable • Instruction card with link to the support WIKI address. This is sufficient for the tethered scenario and creates an out of box experience where the board can be used immediately with no other equipment needed.

BeagleBone Black 3.2 Main Connection Scenarios This section will describe how to connect the board for use. This section is basically a slightly more detailed description of the Quick Start Guide that came in the box. There is also a Quick Start Guide document on the board that should also be referred to. The intent here is that someone looking to purchase the board will be able to read this section and get a good idea as to what the initial set up will be like. The board can be configured in several different ways, but we will discuss the two most common scenarios as described in the Quick Start...

BeagleBone Black 3.2. Main Connection Scenarios

BeagleBone Black 4. When the board starts to the booting process started by the process of applying power, the LEDs will come on in sequence as shown in figure-5 below. It will take a few seconds for the status LEDs to come on, so be patient. The LEDs will be flashing in an erratic manner as it begins to boot the Linux kernel. Fig. 3.5: Board Boot Status Accessing the Board as a Storage Drive The board will appear around a USB Storage drive on your PC after the kernel has booted, which will take around 10 seconds. The kernel on the board needs to boot before the port gets enumerated. Once the...

BeagleBone Black • 1 x USB HUB (OPTIONAL). The board has only one USB host port, so you may need to use a USB Hub if your keyboard and mouse requires two ports. For an up-to-date list of confirmed working accessories please go to BeagleBone_Black_Accessories Connecting Up the Board 1. Connect the big end of the HDMI cable as shown in figure-7 to your HDMI monitor. Refer to your monitor Owner’s Manual for the location of your HDMI port. If you have a DVI-D Monitor go to Step 3, otherwise proceed to Step 4 . Fig. 3.7: Connect microHDMI Cable to the Monitor 2. If you have a DVI-D monitor you must...