Given this restriction can anyone recommend a small board that can regulate
12v to 5v and 3.3v.

I will be driving motors and steppers at 12 v and want to use one source
for that and the BBB.

Thanks

Eric


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Gerald Coley <[email protected]>wrote:

> If you apply power to an I/O pin without power on the power rails of the
> processor, that is basically what you are doing!
>
> Read the datasheet for the processor and look at the
> power sequencing required by the designers of the processor.
>
> http://www.ti.com/product/am3358
>
> Gerald
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Gerald Coley <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> >
>> > Not really. The idea of powering a chip via an I/O pin will
>> > always cause damage. It means voltage as specified by the datasheet of
>> > the component.
>> >
>> I don't aim to 'power' it via the I/O pin!  Maybe that's your way of
>> saying it but it's a very odd way.  The likelihood is that there will
>> be a biggish resistor in series with the input to limit current and
>> there will probably also be some clamping diodes or maybe a buffer
>> amplifier but whatever you do there *cannot* be 'no voltage'.
>>
>> What I'm asking really is what will be tolerated with no problems,
>> every chip spec I have ever seen specifies some sort of minimum, not
>> zero.
>>
>> So what is the "voltage as specified by the datasheet of
>> the component."?  That's what I'm asking really, I'll go and look at
>> the processor spec sheet.
>>
>>
>> > It is your choice, but, it will cause damage to the part.
>> >
>> > If you power a system form one power source, it is not hard to do. Using
>> > two power sources that are not synchronized with each other, that is
>> where
>> > the issue comes into play.
>> >
>> Real systems don't come like that!  Are you going to turn off every
>> single thing in you car/boat/house etc. just so you can power down a
>> Beaglebone monitor?
>>
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