seeed studio BeagleBone Green User manual

Seeed Studio BeagleBone®Green Gateway
UItimate Gateway for Your Industrial Needs
Reference Guide
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Overview
Description 3
Features
Applications
AM3358 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8 Processor
On-Board Chips
Board Overview
Pin Map
65 Possible Digital I/Os
PWMs and Timers
Analog Inputs
UART
I2C
SPI
Specifications
Hardware Overview
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Seeed Studio BeagleBone®Green Gateway
Reference Guide
Description
Overview
Applications
Seeed Studio BeagleBone
®
Green Gateway is a low-cost, open-source, community-supported develop-
ment platform for developers and hobbyists. It is a joint effort by BeagleBoard.org and Seeed Studio. It
is based on the classical open-source hardware design of BeagleBone® Black and developed into this
differentiated version. It is powered by a Sitara™ AM3358 Arm
®
Cortex
®
A8 operating at up to 1GHz with
512MB DDR3 RAM, 4GB eMMC Flash and has rich I/O peripherals such as USB Ports, 10/100M Ethernet
Port, Grove connectors and much more.
• Internet of Things
• Smart House
• Industrial
• Automation & Process Control
• Human Machine Interface
• Sensor Hub
• Robotics
Features
• Fully Compatible with BeagleBone® Black and Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green
• Compact Size for Convenient Deployment
• Powerful Sitara™ AM3358 Arm®Cortex®A8 Processor
• Rich I/O Peripherals
• PRUs for Real-Time Capabilites
• Cape Support for Expandability
• Open-Source
• Support from fast-growing community
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You can easily boot Linux under 10 seconds, and it is very easy to get started on the Sitara™ AM3358
Arm®Cortex®A8 Processor development with just a single USB cable.
The Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Gateway is a combination of Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green
and Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Wireless, equipped with both Ethernet and Wireless connectivity.
The capabilities on the BeagleBone®Green Gateway can be further extended by using expansion boards
called “Capes” that can be plugged into it’s two 46-pin dual-row expansion headers. Capes are available
for, VGA, LCD, motor control, prototyping, battery power and various other functionalities.

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Specifications
• 2 x 32-bit 200MHz PRU (Programmable Real-Time Unit)
• 3D Graphics Accelerator
• NEON Floating-Point Accelerator
• 4GB, 8-bit eMMC Onboard Flash Storage
• 512MB DDR3 RAM
• 4KB EEPROM
• Debian
• Android
• Ubuntu
• Cloud9 IDE on Node.js w/ BoneScript library
• Ethernet 10/100Mbit
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz
• USB Client for Power & Communications
• USB Host
• SD/MMC Connector for Micro-SD
• Bluetooth 4.1 with BLE
• 2 x 46 Pin Headers
• 2 x Grove Connectors (I2C and UART)
• DC Jack for Power, 12V
89.0mm
19.6mm
54.6mm
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AM3358 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8 Processor
On-Board Chips
Connectivity
Software Compatibility

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Board Overview
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Bluetooth Enable LED
Power Button
DC Jack
10/100Mbit Ethernet
2x 46-Pin Headers
USB 2.0 Hub and
Ethernet Controller
2 x USB Host
Reset Button
2x 46-Pin Headers
USR0-3 + WLAN
Active LEDs
VBAT Connector
2.4G Antenna
Grove I2C
Grove UART
BOOT Button
Debug UART
2.4G Antenna
Chip Antenna
WLAN Enable LED
Wilink™ 8 Module
OSD3358
DC Power and
USB Client
Micro SD Card Slot
I2C RTC JTAG Interface
eMMC
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Each digital I/O pin has 8 different modes that can be selected, including GPIO.
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Pin Map
65 Possible Digital I/Os
Note:
In GPIO mode, each digital I/O can produce interrupts.

PWMs and Timers
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Note:
Up to 8 digital I/O pins can be configured with pulse-width modulators (PWM) to produce signals to
control motors or create pseudo analog voltage levels, without taking up any extra CPU cycles.

Analog Inputs
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Note:
Make sure you don't input more than 1.8V to the analog input pins. This is a single 12-bit analog-to-digital
converter with 8 channels, 7 of which are made available on the headers.

UART
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Note:
There is a dedicated header for getting to the UART0 pins and connecting a debug cable. Five additional
serial ports are brought to the expansion headers, but one of them only has a single direction brought to
the headers.

I2C
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Note:
The first I2C bus is utilized for reading EEPROMS on cape add-on boards and can't be used for other
digital I/O operations without interfering with that function, but you can still use it to add other I2C
devices at available addresses. The second I2C bus is available for you to configure and use.

SPI
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Note:
For shifting out data fast, you might consider using one of the SPI ports.

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If you still have any further questions, please visit
forum.seeedstudio.com
If you want to learn about getting started with this board such as setting up
the software and other details, please visit the product wiki at
wiki.seeedstudio.com/BeagleBone-Green-Gateway
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