BeagleV-Ahead pocket computer powered by RISC-V SoC
BeagleBoard.org launched today the open-source BeagleV-Ahead. This new open-source RISC-V Single Board Computer is powered by the Alibaba T-head System-on-Chip which combines a quad-core RISC-V CPU, 4 TOPS NPU and 50 GFLOPS Imagination BXM-4 GPU.
As previously mentioned, the BeagleV-Ahead accommodates the Alibaba-T-Head TH1520 SoC with the following features...
BeagleBoard mentions that the board adopts the popular BeagleBone-style form factor, ensuring compatibility with existing BeagleBone capes.
The product announcement additionally mentions that “the board comes with Yocto installed out of the box with Ubuntu & Fedora working prototypes available, providing users with a familiar and robust development environment.”
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BeagleV-Ahead quad-core RISC-V SBC offers BeagleBone Capes compatibility
Ubuntu 23.04 and Yocto Linux images are provided for the board along with source code, and work-in-progress documentation can be found on beagleboard.org. Like other boards from the foundation, the BeagleV-Ahead is open-source with hardware design files available for download. You can also get support in the forums.
That’s another great development for the RISC-V ecosystem as a whole, and for the T-Head T1520 processor which is already used in the LicheePi 4A SBC and has plenty of commits in the upcoming Linux 6.5 release. That also means we now have a BeagleBone board with performance roughly equivalent to the Raspberry Pi 4 while keeping the many I/Os from the BeagleBone form factor. It does lack PRU support from the Texas Instruments SoC, but only time will tell how much it matters to various projects designed for the BeagleBone Black and compatible.