[beagleboard] Re: BBB cpu upgrade?

2015-04-25 Thread Chris Morgan
No dispute here on how cool the bbb is. I've been looking for a reason to use the pru, wish they provided full access to the cortex m3 though, if it is a full featured core. The pi2 does have video decode acceleration which is pretty cool but agree that the pi is more proprietary than the bbb in t

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB cpu upgrade?

2015-04-25 Thread William Hermans
The only quad core I've noticed on TI's site lately is an A15 quad ( keystone ) and is $125 @ 1ku . . . No stock, but active. Anyway, the dual A15 on the X15 is supposed to be more than a match for the quad on the rPI 2. On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 4:14 PM, William Hermans wrote: > I can sit and th

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB cpu upgrade?

2015-04-25 Thread William Hermans
I can sit and think about tons of reasons why the beaglebone line is heads( and tails ) above the rest. But the two most prominent in my own mind . . . 1) It is a real embedded system unlike most ( all? ) "comparable" boards out there. Plenty ways to interface the board to the outside world, and T

[beagleboard] Re: BBB cpu upgrade?

2015-04-25 Thread Chris Morgan
Hi William. I'm a big fan of the bbb. I like its wide range of io, the headers that make it stable when mounted on a cape and its price point. It also uses a CPU that I could put into my own design, unlike the Broadcom soc on the pi2 that I guess you need some magic handshake and millions of units

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB cpu upgrade?

2015-04-25 Thread William Hermans
There are boards out there with SATA on them that cost less than the BBB does right now. That are around the same size. https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXIno-LIME2/open-source-hardware That is one. Robert even has build instructions for it . . . but drivers still seemed to b

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB cpu upgrade?

2015-04-25 Thread Chris Morgan
Hi Graham. I've been watching the x15 project. It doesn't look like the same kind of board for the same kind of end user imo. eSATA isn't something we'd use (we are ok with sd or emmc for these limited uses), audio codec is interesting but wonder if that also increases cost for people that don't n

[beagleboard] Re: BBB cpu upgrade?

2015-04-25 Thread Graham
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