Beagleboard:BeagleBoard-X15

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BeagleBoard-X15 Description
The BeagleBoard-X15 is the newest member of the BeagleBoard family. Measuring 4" x 4.2", it is based on a Dual Core A15 processor running at 1.5GHZ and features 2GB of DDR3L Memory. Below is a picture of the top side of the board

STATUS UPDATE: RELEASED TO BUILD. The planned ship date to distributors is November 15th. We are starting production build now of 2,000 boards based on processor availability.

We expect to have the first pass on the System Reference Manual out by the end of October. We are working on getting that pulled together now. The rest of the design material will be out in the same time frame or possibly sooner depending on things come together.

We will be uploading new pictures as well as soon as we can get the board to smile for us. There have been some changes since the current pictures were posted.



Bottom side view of the board.



Does this replace the BeagleBone Black?
No

What is the expected price?
MSRP is $239

How many general purpose I/O pins are there?
There are four connectors with 60 pins each with about 157 GPIO pins. The connectors are high-speed surface-mount on the back side of the board and even include PCIe.

Will this be open hardware?
Yes, all BeagleBoard.org designs are released as open hardware, with source schematics and layout available for your modification. We choose devices that are available in single unit quantities from worldwide distributors and publish our bill of materials. Documentation for the devices are available without NDA at the time of product launch. Within the processor, there may be some undocumented features, but no closed-source blobs are required to be loaded to boot the devices and full control is turned over to the users.

Is the graphics engine software open source?
The TI Sitara device used on BeagleBoard-X15 utilizes Imagination Technologies' PowerVR SGX544 GPU. The kernel components of the current solution are GPLv2 licensed. There is no open source support for the user space components of this GPU from Imagination, but the FSF has proposed a project to create an open driver.

Will I be able to program the C66x DSPs?
Yes, there is a free C/C++ compiler from Texas Instruments and support in the mainline of the open source GCC C/C++ compiler. Support for interprocessor communication is also included in the mainline Linux kernel via RPMSG.

bb.org: debian wheezy/jessie images: sudo apt-get install ti-c6000-cgt-v8.0.x-installer

Debug Support dsptop

bb.org: needs linux kernel: 4.1.10-ti-r23/4.1.10-ti-rt-r23 or greater from the v4.1.x-ti branch sudo apt-get install dsptop

U-Boot
As of v2015.01-rc3, mainline u-boot supports the x15 : http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=1e4ad74b875f4da91193afffb0bb0db90ec7b886 However for the being use the ti fork:

git clone git://git.ti.com/ti-u-boot/ti-u-boot.git cd ti-u-boot/ git checkout origin/ti-u-boot-2015.07 -b tmp make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=${CC} distclean make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=${CC} beagle_x15_defconfig make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=${CC}

Kernel
1: kernel: CONFIG_SENSORS_TMP102 & CONFIG_SENSORS_GPIO_FAN echo enabled > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/mode

dra7-ipu2-fw.xem4
This firmware was found in the meta-ti tree: http://arago-project.org/git/meta-ti.git?p=meta-ti.git;a=tree;f=recipes-bsp/ipumm-fw

bb.org: debian wheezy/jessie images: sudo apt-get install ipumm-dra7xx-installer