BeagleBone Black System
Reference Manual
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4.0 BeagleBone Black Overview
The BeagleBone Black is the latest addition to the BeagleBoard.org family and like its
predecessors, is designed to address the Open Source Community, early adopters, and
anyone interested in a low cost ARM Cortex-A8 based processor.
It has been equipped with a minimum set of features to allow the user to experience the
power of the processor and is not intended as a full development platform as many of the
features and interfaces supplied by the processor are not accessible from the BeagleBone
Black via onboard support of some interfaces. It is not a complete product designed to do
any particular function. It is a foundation for experimentation and learning how to
program the processor and to access the peripherals by the creation of your own software
and hardware.
It also offers access to many of the interfaces and allows for the use of add-on boards
called capes, to add many different combinations of features. A user may also develop
their own board or add their own circuitry.
BeagleBone Black is manufactured and warranted by Circuitco LLC in Richardson Texas
for the benefit of the community and its supporters. In addition, Circuitco provides the
RMA support for the BeagleBone Black.
Jason Kridner of Texas Instruments handles the community promotions and is the
spokesmen for BeagleBoard.org.
The board is designed by Gerald Coley, an employee of Texas Instruments and a charter
member of the BeagleBoard.org community.
The PCB layout was done by Circuitco and Circuitco is the sole funder of its
development and transition to production.
The Software is written and supported by the thousands of community members,
including Jason Kridner, employees of Texas Instruments, DigiKey, and Circuitco.
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