Quick Start Guide

This section provides instructions on how to hook up your board. This Beagle requires a 5V > 3A (15W) power supply to work properly via either USB Type-C power adapter or a barrel jack power adapter.

Recommended adapters can be found at Power supplies section. All the BeagleBone AI-64 connections ports we will use in this chapter are shown in the figure below.

Fig. 152 BeagleBone AI-64 connections ports

What’s In the Box

In the box you will find two main items as shown in BeagleBone AI-64 box content.

• BeagleBone AI-64

• Instruction card

Note

A USB-C to USB-C cable is not included, but recommended for the tethered scenario and creates a developer experience where the board can be used immediately with no other equipment needed.

Tip

For board files, 3D model, and more, you can checkout BeagleBona AI-64 repository on OpenBeagle.

Fig. 153 BeagleBone AI-64 box content

Methods of operation

1. Tethered to a PC

2. Standalone development platform in a PC configuration using external peripherals

Main Connection Scenarios

This section describes how to connect and power the board and serves as a slightly more detailed description of the Quick Start Guide included in the box. The board can be configured in several different ways, but we will discuss the two most common scenarios.

• Tethered to a PC via the USB cable

  • Board is accessed as a storage drive and virtual Ethernet connection.

• Standalone Desktop

  • Display

  • Keyboard and Mouse

  • External 5V > 3A power supply

Each of these configurations is discussed in general terms in the following sections.

Update software

Production boards currently ship with the factory-installed 2022-01-14-8GB image. To upgrade from the software image on your BeagleBone AI-64 to the latest, you don’t need to completely reflash the board. If you do want to reflash it, visit the flashing instructions on the getting started page. Factory Image update (without reflashing)…

sudo apt update

sudo apt install --only-upgrade bb-j721e-evm-firmware generic-sys-mods

sudo apt upgrade

Update U-Boot:

to ensure only tiboot3.bin is in boot0, the pre-production image we tried to do more in boot0, but failed…

sudo /opt/u-boot/bb-u-boot-beagleboneai64/install-emmc.sh

sudo /opt/u-boot/bb-u-boot-beagleboneai64/install-microsd.sh

sudo reboot

Update Kernel and SGX modules:

sudo apt install bbb.io-kernel-5.10-ti-k3-j721e

Update xfce:

sudo apt install bbb.io-xfce4-desktop

Update ti-edge-ai 8.2 examples

sudo apt install ti-edgeai-8.2-base ti-vision-apps-8.2 ti-vision-apps-eaik-firmware-8.2

Cleanup:

sudo apt autoremove --purge

Next steps

• Edge AI