BeagleBone AI Overview¶
![BeagleBone AI Overview](../../../_images/BB_AI_overview_image.png)
BeagleBone® AI Features¶
Main Processor Features of the AM5729 Within BeagleBone® AI
Dual 1.5GHz ARM® Cortex®-A15 with out-of-order speculative issue 3-way superscalar execution pipeline for the fastest execution of existing 32-bit code
2 C66x Floating-Point VLIW DSP supported by OpenCL
4 Embedded Vision Engines (EVEs) supported by TIDL machine learning library
2x Dual-Core Programmable Real-Time Unit (PRU) subsystems (4 PRUs total) for ultra low-latency control and software generated peripherals
2x Dual ARM® Cortex®-M4 co-processors for real-time control
IVA-HD subsystem with support for 4K @ 15fps H.264 encode/decode and other codecs @ 1080p60
Vivante® GC320 2D graphics accelerator
Dual-Core PowerVR® SGX544™ 3D GPU
Communications
BeagleBone Black header and mechanical compatibility
16-bit LCD interfaces
4+ UARTs
2 I2C ports
2 SPI ports
Lots of PRU I/O pins
Memory
1GB DDR3L
16GB on-board eMMC flash
Connectors
USB Type-C connector for power and SuperSpeed dual-role controller
Gigabit Ethernet
802.11ac 2.4/5GHz WiFi via the AzureWave AW-CM256SM
Out of Box Software
Zero-download out of box software environment
Board Component Locations¶
![beaglebone ai component placement](../../../_images/BB_AI_ICPlacement_800px.png)