Hardware Reference
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Figure 1-9. The BeagleBoard-X15
The current prerelease board measures 4ʺ x 4.2ʺ, is based on a Texas Instruments dual-
core ARM Cortex-A15 processor running at 1.5 GHZ, and features 2 GB of DDR3L
memory. It includes an estimated 157 general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pins and inter-
faces for audio I/O, simultaneous LCD and HDMI video output, PCIe, eSATA, USB3, and
dual-gigabit Ethernet. Additional processing elements include dual TI C66x DSPs, dual
ARM Cortex-M4s, dual PRU-ICSS subsystems, and multiple image/graphics processing
engines.
BeagleBoard-X15 is going to be an amazing machine, but it will be a fair bit more ex-
pensive and complicated. Starting with BeagleBone Black and moving up to
BeagleBoard-X15 when you've identified a clear need for its power is a good approach.
