Chapter 1. Introducing the Beagle Boards

This chapter will provide a background on the entire family of Beagle boards with brief highlights of what is unique about every member, such as things that favor one member over the other. This chapter will help you identify the Beagle boards that might have been mislabeled. The following topics will be covered here:

• What are Beagle boards
• How do they relate to other development boards
• BeagleBoard Classic
• BeagleBoard-xM
• BeagleBone White
• BeagleBone Black

The focus of this book will be on the BeagleBone subfamily and assumes that a BeagleBone board has been purchased.