Datasheet

REF: BBONEGRN_SRM BeagleBone Green

System Reference Manual Rev V1a

3.3.2 Accessing the Board as a Storage Drive

The board will appear around a USB Storage drive on your PC after the kernel has booted,

which will take a round 10 seconds. The kernel on the board needs to boot before the port

gets enumerated. Once the board appears as a storage drive, do the following:

1) Open the USB Drive folder.

2) Click on the file named start.html

3) The file will be opened by your browser on the PC and you should get a display showing

the Quick Start Guide.

4) Your board is now operational! Follow the instructions on your PC screen.

4.0 BeagleBone Green Overview

BeagleBone Green (BBG) is based on the classical open-source hardware design of

BeagleBone Black (BBB) and added two Grove connectors. It has removed the HDMI port

on the BBB and also updated the 5V barrel to Micro USB host.

The main improvement about BeagleBone Green is that adding two Grove connector for

supporting Grove system. For more information about Grove system please visit:

http://www.seeedstudio.com/wiki/Grove_System

4.1 BeagleBone Black Compatibility

The board is intended to be compatible with the BeagleBone Black as much as possible.

There are several areas where there are differences between the two designs. These

differences are listed below, along with the reasons for the differences.

 Removed the 5VDC Power Jack

 Cost down

 Rarely used

 Normally you can power the board through the Micro USB port

 Removed HDMI framer IC and connector

 Cost down

 If you still need to display with HDMI interface, you can add a HDMI cape

 Replace Mini USB port with Micro USB

 More commonly used

 Grove interface onboard

 There are more than 100 Grove Sensors and Actuators can be easily used

 Focus on the IoT applications