Not if it takes 5 pins to equal the peripheral mix needed by one standard BBB pin.
Gerald On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Walter Schilling <schill...@msoe.edu> wrote: > Pin muxing is something that can very easily be controlled in software / > managed with software changes and routing on the board. However, if the > physical interface is different, you end up throwing out all of the > peripherals you have. Think of it this way: how standard would USB be if > each version used a different physical interconnect? They haven't. > There's a few "standard" interfaces out there for the hardware. > > Walt > > > On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 10:05:15 AM UTC-5, Gerald wrote: > >> BeagleBone Black needed to be cheap. something had to go. Rest of the >> expansion signals are the same and those signals are still there on the >> board.. >> >> I disagree that the changes were radical. I fact, we lowered the cost and >> added features. >> >> If we change to another processor, the pin muxing changes. To comply with >> your desire to keep them all the same, you have just made my case. >> >> Gerald >> >> >> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Walter Schilling <schi...@msoe.edu> >> wrote: >> >>> That's a real problem if the interface doesn't stay compatible in the >>> future. When I look at Arduino, capes are compatible with previous >>> versions. Same goes with the Raspberry Pi. Version 1 to version 2 adds >>> features, but generally keeps compatibility between them. With the >>> Beagle's, each version has had a radically different form factor and >>> support. White's started with an extra header, removed for the blacks, >>> breaking some capes. >>> >>> On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 9:30:37 AM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Philip <philip....@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> > On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 10:14:20 AM UTC-4, Gerald wrote: >>>> >> >>>> >> If I knew that, I would have mentioned that. I would say maybe late >>>> >> September. We hope to have a few beta boards in about 6 weeks. Jason >>>> is >>>> >> handling who gets those boards. Right now, we are going back into >>>> layout to >>>> >> fix yet another TI "feature". >>>> >> >>>> > >>>> > Will the cape interface stay the same? >>>> >>>> Nope, and don't mention stuff like that, we don't want to give Gerald >>>> a heart attack.. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Robert Nelson >>>> https://rcn-ee.com/ >>>> >>> -- >>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to beagleboard...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Gerald >> >> ger...@beagleboard.org >> http://beagleboard.org/ >> http://circuitco.com/support/ >> > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Gerald ger...@beagleboard.org http://beagleboard.org/ http://circuitco.com/support/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
