Jan 22, 2021 12:40:00

Released the 500-yen range microcomputer board 'Raspberry Pi Pico', equipped with the proprietary microcomputer 'RP2040'

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Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the ' Raspberry Pi Pico, ' which also functions as a stand-alone microcomputer board. 'Raspberry Pi Pic' is equipped with a microcontroller- 'RP2040' originally developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and can be developed in C language or MicroPython .

Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $ 4 --Raspberry Pi
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-silicon-pico-now-on-sale/

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The main specifications of Raspberry Pi Pico are as follows. There is also a page that summarizes specifications and usage examples of development languages .

· Arm Cortex M0 + Processor 133MHz Dual Core
・ On-chip RAM: 264KB
-Off-chip RAM: up to 16MB via QSPI bus
・ GPIO pin x 30 (4 of them are analog inputs)
・UART x 2
・SPI controller x 2
・I2C controller x 2
・PWM x 16 channels
・ Micro-USB port x 1
·Temperature sensor
· On-chip high-speed floating-point arithmetic library
・ Eight programmable I / Os
・ Soldering is possible with end face through holes

Until now, Raspberry Pi products did not have a microcontroller, so they were not very suitable for analog input or low-latency control of I / O pins. Therefore, the Raspberry Pi Foundation developed its own microcontroller 'RP2040'.

The RP2040 was developed with the aim of installing flexible I / O that can communicate with almost all external devices at high performance and low cost. All features are packed in a 2mm2 silicon die and 7mm2 QFN 56-pin package manufactured on a 40nm process.

The price is 4 dollars (about 410 yen), and the selling price in Japan is 550 yen including tax for Switch Science and 528 yen including tax for KSY .