BeagleBoard July 28, 2008 (2008-07-28)[1] BeagleBoard rev.C May 13, 2009 (2009-05-13)[2] BeagleBoard-xM September 14, 2010 (2010-09-14)[3] BeagleBone October 31, 2011 (2011-10-31)[4] BeagleBone Black April 23, 2013 (2013-04-23)[5] BeagleBoard-X15 November 1, 2015 (2015-11-01)[6]
The BeagleBoard is a low-power open-sourcesingle-board computer produced by Texas Instruments in association with Digi-Key and Newark element14. The BeagleBoard was also designed with open source software development in mind, and as a way of demonstrating the Texas Instrument's OMAP3530system-on-a-chip.[8] The board was developed by a small team of engineers as an educational board that could be used in colleges around the world to teach open source hardware and software capabilities. It is also sold to the public under the Creative Commonsshare-alike license. The board was designed using CadenceOrCAD for schematics and Cadence Allegro for PCB manufacturing; no simulation software was used.[citation needed]