[Arm-netbook] beaglebone black

luke.leighton luke.leighton at gmail.com
Tue Apr 23 21:44:11 BST 2013


http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black

looks like a good basis for an EOMA-68 CPU Card... almost.  with no
SATA you have to add that as USB-to-SATA.  that means adding a USB HUB
IC because there's not enough USBs (only 2 - one's for EOMA-68, the
other for a Micro-USB connector).  ok, maybe lose the Micro-USB (bad).

but the kicker is the 16-bit DDR3 data bus.

so, let's compare to e.g. cubieboard:

* price: identical (ish)
* SATA: yes on cubieboard, no on bbb
* Ethernet: identical
* HDMI: yes (ish) - bbb uses a converter IC.
* RAM: 32-bit width on cubieboard and 16-bit on bbb.
* GPIO: not as much on bbb.

so... yeah.  still doesn't cut the mustard, sadly!

oh... and don't AM335x use PowerVR? *shudder*



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