Raspberry Pi Pico Now Available

Raspberry Pi has launched its first microcontroller-class product: Raspberry Pi Pico. The new board, which is priced at US $4, is built on the brand-new RP2040 chip developed by Raspberry Pi. 

According to the announcement, the fully open source RP2040 is the result of years of hard work by the Raspberry Pi in-house chip team, which had three main design goals in mind: “high performance, particularly for integer workloads; flexible I/O, to allow us to talk to almost any external device; and of course, low cost, to eliminate barriers to entry.”

The result is “an incredibly powerful little chip,” that includes the following features (among others):

  • Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ @ 133MHz
  • 264KB of on-chip RAM
  • Support for up to 16MB of off-chip Flash memory via dedicated QSPI bus
  • 30 GPIO pins, 4 of which can be used as analogue input
  • USB 1.1 controller and PHY, with host and device support

Eric Brown at LinuxGizmos provides a detailed overview.

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