Chapter 1. About Raspberry Pi Pico

Raspberry Pi Pico is a microcontroller board based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller chip.

Figure 1. The

Raspberry Pi Pico

Rev3 board.

Raspberry Pi Pico has been designed to be a low cost yet flexible development platform for RP2040, with the following

key features:

• RP2040 microcontroller with 2MB Flash

• Micro-USB B port for power and data (and for reprogramming the Flash)

• 40 pin 21×51 'DIP' style 1mm thick PCB with 0.1" through-hole pins also with edge castellations

◦ Exposes 26 multi-function 3.3V General Purpose I/O (GPIO)

◦ 23 GPIO are digital-only and 3 are ADC capable

◦ Can be surface mounted as a module

• 3-pin ARM Serial Wire Debug (SWD) port

• Simple yet highly flexible power supply architecture

◦ Various options for easily powering the unit from micro-USB, external supplies or batteries

• High quality, low cost, high availability

• Comprehensive SDK, software examples and documentation

For full details of the RP2040 microcontroller please see the RP2040 Datasheet, however the headline features are:

• Dual-core cortex M0+ at up to 133MHz

◦ On-chip PLL allows variable core frequency

• 264kB multi-bank high performance SRAM

• External Quad-SPI Flash with eXecute In Place (XIP) and 16kB on-chip cache

• High performance full-crossbar bus fabric

Raspberry Pi Pico Datasheet

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