With £5 burning a hole in his pocket, Les Pounder splashes out on the new embedded Pi.
SPECS
SoC: RP2350, dual-core Arm Cortex M33 or dual-core RISC-V Hazard3 up to 150MHz
SRAM: 520KB
SSD: 4MB QSPI
Security: Arm TrustZone, 8KB OTP, Secure Boot
Comms: USB 1.1 device and host
Support: MicroPython, CircuitPython, C, C++
GPIO level: 3.3V
GPIO: 26x digital IO, 4x 12-bit ADC (analogue pins), 2x UART, 2x I2C, 2x SPI, 24x PWM
IO: 12 PIO State Machines
LED: GPIO 25
Power: 1.8-5.5V via micro USB or VSYS
Sleep: <10uA
Size: 21x51mm
Bound to be found powering plenty of Pounder’s projects in the future!
CREDIT: Raspberry Pi Foundation
It’s four and a half years on from the original Pico release back in 2021, and while it may look very much like the original Raspberry Pi Pico, the Pico 2 is powered by a new system on chip (SoC) that sees two CPUs in one package. The RP2350 is a higher-performing microcontroller that features a dual-core Arm Cortex M33 and an open-hardware dual-core RISC-V Hazard3 CPU – more on this later.