The new BeagleBoard-xM almost doubles the performance of the original BeagleBoard and adds a number of new interfaces. The new board delivers almost 2000 Dhrystone MIPS and 20 million polygons per second with its TI DM3730 processor containing a Cortex-A8 ARM and TMS320C64x DSP Core. The new board will be available soon from Digikey, and you can also purchase one by registering for an ESC Boston 2010 Hands-On BeagleBoard Workshop.
The workshops being offered at the embedded systems conference cover the Beagleboard architecture, tools, device driver development, and Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7.