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Introduction
BeagleY-AI is an open-source single board computer designed for edge AI applications.
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
The AM67A scalable processor family is based on the evolutionary Jacinto™ 7 architecture, targeted at Smart
Vision Camera and General Compute applications and built on extensive market knowledge accumulated over
a decade of TI’s leadership in the Vision processor market. The AM67A family is built for a broad set of
cost-sensitive high performance compute applications in Factory Automation, Building Automation, and other
markets.
Some Applications include:
Human Machine Interface (HMI)
Hospital patient monitoring
Industrial PC
Building security system
Off-highway vehicle
Test and measurement
Energy storage systems
Video Surveillance
Machine Vision
Industrial mobile robot (AGV/AMR)
Front camera systems
The AM67A provides high performance compute technology for both traditional and deep learning algorithms
at industry leading power/performance ratios with a high level of system integration to enable scalability and
lower costs for advanced vision camera applications. Key cores include the latest Arm and GPU processors for
general compute, next generation DSP with scalar and vector cores, dedicated deep learning and traditional
algorithm accelerators, an integrated next generation imaging subsystem (ISP), video codec, and MCU cores. All
protected by industrial-grade security hardware accelerators.
