Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
Uh-oh, somebody needs to update
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard to include the Pocket.
According to https://www.cnx-software.com/2017/09/22/25-pocketbeagle-is-a-mini-beaglebone-board-based-on-octavo-osd3358-sm-sip/
it's an SGX530 GPU. Datasheet at
http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/sprs717j/sprs717j.pdf 20 million polygons
per second, hmm, I'm not sure how that compares.
People mine bitcoin and other crypto-coins with GPUs, they'll plug
like 6 high-end video cards into a motherboard. But they have to be
good or you'll use more electricity than the coins are worth. GPUs
are more useful than CPUs for it though because they're faster. An
offshoot of the gaming industry. There's a standard called openCL.
The PDF's interesting, it's about the AM335 (AM3359, AM3358, AM3357,
AM3356, AM3354, AM3352, AM3351) in general. There's a real time
clock? I see, the ADCs are meant for a touch screen controller. No
idea how much of this is in the PocketBeagle, it says 10/100/1000 Mbps
ethernet, audio. Display options are LCD period.
On 10/7/17, David Glaser <dglaser@glaserresearch.net> wrote:
> Hmm, I wonder if the GPUs could be put to work resolving Neural Networks?
>
>
> On 10/07/2017 02:01 PM, Alan Corey wrote:
>> Isn't it kind of deceptive advertising to advertise a video
>> accelerator when there's no video? Even the Raspberry Pi Zero has
>> HDMI and composite. Oh well, maybe it can do computing tasks, the
>> Pi's GPU can do FFTs and stuff if you use assembler on it. Faster
>> than the CPU.
>>
>> On 10/7/17, Nigel Sollars <nsollars@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Its part o the sitara SOC,
>>>
>>> weather they broke it out or not i immaterial..
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It just showed up in the mail. And says "3D graphics accelerator"
>>>> right on the package. It baffles me why they did that when there's no
>>>> video connector except 2 SPIs amongst the GPIO pins.
>>>>
>>>> Gotta poke through archives for connector ideas. You put sockets on
>>>> the bottom of the board and have pins sticking out the top? Extra
>>>> long pins? And ribbon cable and more connectors and prototyping
>>>> boards. Mouser gets repeat business on this deal.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> “Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.”
>>>
>>> Alan Turing
>>>
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