Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green Eco SBC with TI AM3358, 16GB eMMC, Gigabit Ethernet

Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green Eco

The industrial-grade, open-source single-board computer, Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green Eco, was developed alongside the BeagleBoard.org Foundation. The Green Eco board has the same Texas Instruments AM3358 processor as the BeagleBone Green featuring a single-core Arm Cortex-A8 processor that runs at 1 GHz with NEON SIMD extensions for accelerated media and signal processing, a 3D graphics accelerator, and a dual-core 32-bit PRU-ICSS RISC coprocessor system for real-time industrial communications and Automation & Process Control.

The Green Eco board also has 512 MB of DDR3L RAM and expanded onboard storage has been increased from 4 GB to 16 GB eMMC (four times the previous amount for the BeagleBone Green). The most significant change is the replacement of the Texas Instruments TPS65217C power management chip from the BeagleBone Green with the TI TPS6521403 PMIC with features like PFM mode and dynamic voltage scaling. In addition, USB is upgraded from USB 1.1 to USB 2.0 for both Client and Host USB, and Ethernet has been upgraded from 10/100 Mbps to Gigabit. The hardware updates include moving to USB Type-C for power and USB device communication, and a USB Type-A port for peripherals.

BeagleBone Green Eco open-source SBC front and back side

Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green Eco Specifications:

• SoC: Texas Instruments AM3358 
  • AM3358 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor 
  • 2x 32-bit 200-MHz programmable real-time units (PRUs) 
• GPU: 
  • ARMv7-A NEON SIMD coprocessor and VFPv3 floating-point unit  
  • PowerVR SGX 3D Graphics Accelerator supporting OpenGL ES 2.0 
• System Memory: 512MB (4GB) DDR3L RAM (Kingston D2516ECMDXGJDI-U) with 16-bit interface @800MHz  
• Storage:
  • 16GB eMMC onboard flash storage (Kingston EMMC16G-WW28) with MMC1 8-bit interface  
  • 32Kbit EEPROM (FMD FT24C32A-ELRT) 
  • MicroSD card slot with MMC0 4-bit interface (up to 32 GB) 
• USB:
  • 1x USB 2.0 Host Interface, Type-A  
  • 1x USB 2.0 Type-C port for power and device communications 
• Network Connectivity: Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000Mbps) 
• Expansion:
  • 2x 46-pins headers  
  • 1x 6-pins UART0 headers 
  • 2x Grove connectors (1x I2C and 1x UART) 
• Misc:
  • 1x Reset button  
  • 1x User (Boot) button 
  • 1x Wake Up button 
  • 1x power LED 
  • 4x user-programmable LEDs 
• Power: 
  • 5V DC input via USB Type-C  
  • TI TPS6521403 PMIC 
    • Voltage Regulator
      • TI TPS62A01DRL (3.3V Buck converter)
      • TI TPS74501PDRV (1.8V Always-On LDO)
      • TI TPS2117DRL (Power Mux) 
• Operating Temperature: –40 °C to +85 °C 
• Dimensions: 86.4mm x 53.3mm x 18mm 
• Weight: 40g 

Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green Eco Hardware-Overview

On the software side, the BeagleBone Green Eco comes preloaded with a Debian image from BeagleBoard.org, offering a familiar Linux development environment. It includes community-supported tools and libraries, allowing developers to quickly prototype and test applications without extra setup. More information available on the wiki page.

Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green Eco Functional-Block-Diagram

The BeagleBone Green Eco open-source SBC is available for purchase staring from $42.00 on the Seeed Studio BeagleBoard product page. For more information it is recommended to go through the Seeed Studio Wiki page. 

Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green Eco Header Pin Definition

Images used courtesy of seeedstudio.