Beagleboard:BeagleBone Black Capes

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  • The BeagleBone Black essentially is an original BeagleBone with three virtual capes:
    • Memory Cape for on board eMMC
    • HDMI Cape for on board video
    • Audio Cape for audio through HDMI

BeagleBone Black Reserved Signals

  • When adding a Cape to the BeagleBone Black, if the same signals are used for the on board virtual capes, then only one of these devices can be supported at a time.
    • MMC signals P8[25:20] and P8[6:3]
    • LCD signals P8[46:27]
    • AUDIO signals P9[31] and P9[29:28]


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Supported Capes

  • Each cape is listed with a column to indicate if the cape uses any of the same signals as the virtual cape for each.
  • Mechanical means that the cape has been physcially plugged into a BeagleBone Black and has no clearance issues.
  • Hardware Support means that the cape will electrically work with the BeagleBone Black.
  • Software Support means that the cape is supported in the bootable linux distribution image that ships with the BeagleBone Black.


Board Mechanical P9-Battery LCD P8[46:27] EMMC P8[25:20] P8[6:3] AUDIO signals P9[31] and P9[29:28] Hardware Support Software Support Support Planned Notes
Breakout Cape PASS NC PASS PASS PASS YES NONE REQUIRED APPROVED
Breadboard Cape PASS NC PASS PASS PASS YES NONE REQUIRED APPROVED
Battery Cape PASS NC PASS PASS PASS YES NONE REQUIRED APPROVED
RS-232 Cape PASS NC PASS PASS PASS YES NO YES
RS-485 Cape PASS NC PASS USED PASS NO NO YES this board will need a hardware revision
CAN Bus Cape PASS NC PASS USED PASS NO NO YES this board will need a hardware revision
Weather Cape PASS NC PASS USED PASS NO NO YES this board will need a hardware revision
LCD3 Cape PASS NC USED PASS PASS YES YES YES Must be revision A2 or better - low image quality unresolved
LCD4 Cape PASS NC USED PASS PASS YES YES YES issues with buttons unresolved
LCD7 Cape PASS NC USED PASS PASS YES YES YES initialization issues unresolved
3.1MP Camera Cape PASS NC PASS USED PASS YES YES YES Functional testing complete
Audio Cape PASS NC PASS PASS USED YES NO EXPERIMENTAL only supported by disabling onboard HDMI
Memory Cape PASS NC USED USED PASS YES NO EXPERIMENTAL This cape is sold for development purposes only
HDMI Cape PASS NC USED USED USED YES NO NO duplicated by onboard virtual HDMI cape
DVI-D Cape PASS NC USED PASS PASS YES NO NO duplicated by onboard virtual HDMI cape
DVI-D w/Audio Cape PASS NC USED PASS PASS YES NO NO duplicated by onboard virtual HDMI cape
TiWi-5E Cape PASS NC USED USED USED NO NO NO hardware incompatible and will damage BeagleBone Black
TiWi-BLE Cape PASS NC USED USED USED NO NO NO hardware incompatible and will damage BeagleBone Black