Offering designersand hobbyists a low-cost starting point for device development, Digi-Key, Texas Instruments, and a group of volunteers have joined forces to create an open, single-board-computer design that can be adapted to a multitude of embedded projects. The module, dubbed the Beagle Board, is a low-power, fanless design incorporating Tl's recently introduced OMAP35x processors based on the ARM Cortex-A8 core. The design reduces cost and power requirements by eliminating most onboard peripherals, except those provided by the processor, and incorporating standard expansion buses, like high-speed USB 2.0 and SDIO for application-specific I/O.
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