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BeagleBoard.org Makes FPGA and RISC-V Accessible with New BeagleV-Fire Single Board Computer at $150

Available now! Stock arriving at distributors now, priced around $150. Place orders via links at https://beaglev-fire.org. BeagleBoard.org, a pioneer in open-source single-board computers (SBCs), is excited to unveil the BeagleV®-Fire, a revolutionary SBC powered by the Microchip’s PolarFire® MPFS025T FCVG484E 5x core RISC-V System on Chip (SoC) with FPGA fabric. This remarkable addition to […]

BeagleV-Ahead RISC-V computer from BeagleBoard.org available now under $150

BeagleBoard.org®, a leading developer of open-source hardware platforms, is thrilled to announce the highly anticipated launch of BeagleV® Ahead, an innovative single board computer (SBC) based on TH1520, a quad core 64-bit RISC-V SoC from T-Head. This groundbreaking open-source SBC brings a new level of accessibility, performance, and flexibility to the rapidly growing RISC-V ecosystem. […]

Using the U-Boot Extension Board Manager – BeagleBone Boards Example

This article follows two earlier blog posts about Device Tree overlays: Using Device Tree Overlays, example on BeagleBone boards Device Tree: Supporting Similar Boards – The BeagleBone Example Introduction As explained in the first two blog posts, the BeagleBone boards are supported by a wide number of extension boards, called capes. When such a cape […]

Device Tree: Supporting Similar Boards – The BeagleBone Example

Most of the BeagleBone boards from BeagleBoard.org share the same form factor, have the same headers and therefore can accept the same extension boards, also known as capes in the BeagleBoard world. Of course, a careful PCB design was necessary to make this possible. This must have been relatively easy with the early models (BeagleBone […]

Using Device Tree Overlays, example on BeagleBone Cape add-on boards

The concept of Device Tree overlays The Device Tree language is a way to describe hardware that is present in a system and cannot be automatically detected. That’s the case of devices directly implemented on a System on a Chip, such as serial ports, Ethernet or Nand flash controllers. That’s also the case of devices […]

Improving usage of device trees

Using device trees is one of the most complicated and important, and sometimes risky, elements of using a Beagle to make use of add-on hardware. With the addition of the AM5729-based BeagleBone AI to the family of boards sporting BeagleBone headers, the complications have increased, requiring additional considerations with dependencies on different processor pins connected […]

BeagleBone® Black Helps Team Bring in a Win for Sustainability

The TU Delft Solar Boat Team used the BeagleBone® Black in their most ambitious design and won in the world championships.

Online training update

As mentioned in my New Year’s resolution, I’m going to launch some online training for embedded Linux development. Yes, this training will happen. Interest continues to build. At this point, I’m delaying until the first of our triannual image releases comes out next month to align with the latest software release. I’m also fixing an […]

BeagleBoard.org GSoC is heating up

Just a few days left for students to submit proposals to the official @gsoc site. Help guide the students by joining the forum (bbb.io/gsocml) and live chat (bbb.io/gsocchat) now!

BeagleBoard.org® Community Kicks off GSoC 2019 with Four Projects

This summer, four student projects in the Google Summer of Code 2019 (GSoC) will be mentored by BeagleBoard.org®. GSoC, sponsored by Google, is a global program in it’s fourteenth year, focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development during a 3 month programming project. After going through a detailed and thorough application […]