ai edge application
$118 BeagleBone-AI SBC is Made for AI Edge Applications
Foundation introduced BeagleBone-AI SBC at Embedded World 2019 last February. The board is specifically designed for artificial intelligence workloads at the edge thanks to Texas Instruments AM5729 dual-core Cortex-A15 processor that embeds a dual-core C66x DSP, and 4 EVE (Embedded Vision Engine) cores. The BeagleBone Black compatible board was not available at the time, but the Foundation has now formally launched the board, and you can buy BeagleBone-AI for $118 and up with heatsink and antenna on sites such as Mouser, OKdo, or Newark. The solutions is said to offer a "zero-download out-of-box software experience" with TI C66x digital signal processor (DSP) cores and embedded-vision-engine (EVE) cores supported through an optimized TIDL (Texas Instruments Deep Learning) machine learning OpenCL API with pre-installed tools. The Linux powered board targets automation in industrial, commercial and home applications.