Get to Know the Raspberry Pi Pico Board and RP2040

摘要

Another Raspberry Pi? Yes. Now there is a new Raspberry Pi product - Raspberry Pi Pico (see Figure 1). We will say in advance: the Raspberry Pi Pico is not meant to replace any existing Raspberry Pi; it is meant to be an extension and a companion for the existing Raspberry Pi family. Although it is a Raspberry Pi, this one is completely different from what we have seen until now. The Raspberry Pi Pico is a dual-core ARM powered board that offers just the bare circuitry to make it work. Even if it sounds like a modified Pi Zero, it is not. The Raspberry Pi Pico is not using a Broadcom CPU like the other Raspberry Pi boards we have seen. This one uses a chip, the RP2040, that was designed in-house by the Raspberry Pi Foundation itself.