666 EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
19.1.11.1 | Beagle Board (Refer to Section 15.6)
e Beagle Board is a low-power, low-cost, fan-less single board computer with
laptop-like performance produced by Texas Instruments in association with DigiKey.
e heart of the Beagle Board used here is an OMAP 3530 SoC. e main processor the
OMAP3530 includes an ARM Cortex-A8 CPU which can run Windows CE, Linux or
Symbian. Here in our case we have used a Linux distribution called Angstrom.
e Beagle Board is also equipped with a single SD/MMC card slot supporting
SDIO, a USB On- e-Go port, an RS-232 serial connection. e operating system,
Angstrom was loaded in to the SD/MMC. e USB port is connected to the WebCam
which gives input images to the processor