Raspberry Pi Pico released: microcontroller launches RP2040 chip
Chris Burns - Jan 21, 2021, 10:56am CST
Today the first Raspberry Pi microcontroller was released for approximately $4 USD. This device is the Raspberry Pi Pico, built on RP2040, a “brand-new chip” developed at Raspberry Pi. This device bridges the gap between the still relatively heavyweight computation handled by the Raspberry Pi proper, and the computing that should be handled by a much lower power microcontroller. Today Raspberry Pi began rolling forth into the microcontroller universe.
The Raspberry Pi Pico is built on the Raspberry Pi-designed RP2040. RP2040 is a 40 nm silicon chip, 2 square millimeters in size jammed into a 7 × 7 mm QFN-56 package. This chip has the following specifications:
First product built on Raspberry Pi-designed silicon – Raspberry Pi Pico – now available from Newark
The high-performance and low-cost Raspberry Pi Pico is designed to be easily incorporated into a range of professional microcontroller applications.
Newark, an Avnet Company and global distributor of electronic components, products and solutions, has today announced the availability of the first product built on Raspberry Pi-designed silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico. This new product brings Raspberry Pi’s signature values of high performance, low cost, and ease of use to the microcontroller market, in a game-changing $4 development kit. Newark customers will be able to purchase the Raspberry Pi Pico from the Newark website starting on Monday, January 25.