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beagle bone black pinout

Ken Sharp edited this page Dec 10, 2025 · 5 revisions

BeagleBone Black LINX Pinout

BeagleBone Black LINX pinout diagram

Below is the default LINX mapping for the BeagleBone Black expansion headers. The tables preserve the original color coding so you can quickly distinguish power rails, UART/SPI/I²C buses, PWM outputs, analog inputs, and reserved pins.

P9 Header

P9
Left Pin Pin Pin Right Pin
000000 DGND 47 48 000000 DGND
ffa500 VDD_3v3 49 50 ffa500 VDD_3v3
ff5252 VDD_5v 51 52 ff5252 VDD_5v
ff7043 SYS_5v 53 54 ff7043 SYS_5v
bdbdbd PWR_BUT 56 55 bdbdbd SYS_RESET
fff59d UART4_RX 57 58 c8e6c9 DIO_58
fff59d UART4_TX 59 60 f8bbd0 PWM_60
c8e6c9 DIO_61 61 62 f8bbd0 PWM_62
ffffff RESERVED_SPI0_CS0 63 64 81d4fa SPI0_MOSI
1e88e5 I2C2_SCL 65 66 1e88e5 I2C2_SDA
81d4fa SPI0_MISO 67 68 81d4fa SPI0_SCLK
c8e6c9 DIO_69 69 70 fff59d UART1_TX
ffffff RESERVED_PRU 71 72 fff59d UART1_RX
c8e6c9 DIO_73 73 74 ffffff RESERVED_HDMI
ffffff RESERVED_HDMI 75 76 c8e6c9 DIO_76
ffffff RESERVED_HDMI 77 78 e0e0e0 ADC_VDD
d1c4e9 AI_4 79 80 e0e0e0 ADC_GND
d1c4e9 AI_6 81 82 d1c4e9 AI_5
d1c4e9 AI_2 83 84 d1c4e9 AI_3
d1c4e9 AI_0 85 86 d1c4e9 AI_1
ffffff RESERVED_PRU 87 88 ffffff RESERVED_PRU
000000 DGND 89 90 000000 DGND
000000 DGND 91 92 000000 DGND

P8 Header

P8
Left Pin Pin Pin Right Pin
000000 DGND 1 2 000000 DGND
ffffff RESERVED_MMC 3 4 ffffff RESERVED_MMC
ffffff RESERVED_MMC 5 6 ffffff RESERVED_MMC
c8e6c9 DIO_7 7 8 c8e6c9 DIO_8
c8e6c9 DIO_9 9 10 c8e6c9 DIO_10
c8e6c9 DIO_11 11 12 c8e6c9 DIO_12
f8bbd0 PWM_13 13 14 ffffff RESERVED
c8e6c9 DIO_15 15 16 c8e6c9 DIO_16
c8e6c9 DIO_17 17 18 c8e6c9 DIO_18
f8bbd0 PWM_19 19 20 ffffff RESERVED_MMC
ffffff RESERVED_MMC 21 22 ffffff RESERVED_MMC
ffffff RESERVED_MMC 23 24 ffffff RESERVED_MMC
ffffff RESERVED_MMC 25 26 c8e6c9 DIO_26
ffffff RESERVED_HDMI 27 28 ffffff RESERVED_HDMI
ffffff RESERVED_HDMI 29 30 ffffff RESERVED_HDMI
ffffff RESERVED_HDMI 31 32 ffffff RESERVED_HDMI
ffffff RESERVED_HDMI 33 34 ffffff RESERVED_HDMI
ffffff RESERVED_HDMI 35 36 ffffff RESERVED_HDMI
ffffff RESERVED_HDMI 37 38 ffffff RESERVED_HDMI
ffffff RESERVED_HDMI 39 40 ffffff RESERVED_HDMI
ffffff RESERVED_HDMI 41 42 ffffff RESERVED_HDMI
ffffff RESERVED_HDMI 43 44 ffffff RESERVED_HDMI
ffffff RESERVED_HDMI 45 46 ffffff RESERVED_HDMI

Color legend

Chip Signal
3.3 V chip 3.3 V
5 V chip 5 V / SYS 5 V
UART chip UART
SPI chip SPI
I2C chip I2C
LINX DIO chip LINX DIO
PWM chip PWM
Analog chip Analog input / ADC
Power control chip Power control
Ground chip Ground
Reserved chip Reserved / not connected

> Tip: Many P8 pins remain reserved for MMC/HDMI by default. If you need additional I/O, disable the conflicting cape overlays in your BeagleBone Black device tree before repurposing those pins.

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