Raspberry Pi Pico : All about Raspberry Pi Pico
Introduction
Hello everyone welcomes back to "Techno-E-Solution" in this article I'll explain to you all about the Raspberry Pi Pico that you need to know about it. This blog will help you to learn & play with low-cost & high-performing RP Pico.
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What is Raspberry Pi Pico? If you are an enthusiast of electronics and electrical then you need to know all about RP Pico. Raspberry Pi Foundation is offering a new board which is RP Pico, so we will see what is RP Pico, its specifications, pinouts, and much more.
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What is Raspberry Pi Pico?
The Raspberry Pi Pico is a radical change from previous Raspberry Pis boards. The Pico is not a Linux computer, but it's a microcontroller board same as Arduino's microcontroller. This Pico board is very famous because it's a low-cost & high-performing microcontroller. The Pico board is very affordable at just $4. The RP2040 chip developed by Raspberry Pi's engineers provides sufficient power to embedded projects and allows users of any age and ability to learn to code.
What is the RP2040 microcontroller?
- The chip at the center of the Pico board is an RP2040 microcontroller. This is a custom IC designed by RP's engineers to make more powerful microcontroller-based devices.
- This RP2040 microcontroller supports C / C++ and Micro Python programming language to code the RP Pico board.
- The Raspberry Pi's logo is etched on the top of the RP2040 chip with some series of letters and numbers, which helps RP's engineers to track when & where the chip was made.
- This RP2040 microcontroller chip is designed by RP's engineers in the United Kingdom.
What is RP2040
RP_2_0_4_0
- RP:- This is stands for Raspberry Pi.
- 2:- Where 2 stands for the number of cores, This microcontroller is a Dual-Core microcontroller.
- 0:- Zero stands for the type of core, which is an M0+ processor.
- 4:- The 4 is stands for the floor of RAM in the microcontroller.
- 0:- The last 0 is stands for the floor of non-volatile.
Design of RP Pico
In the following image, you can see the top view of the RP Pico. If you observed carefully you will see a gold-colored section with little Spacemen. These are the pins that are used to connect different electronics components and sensors with the Pico board.
The outer edge of the board has a little circular cut-out. Which looks different from other boards as shown in the following image. This type of board is called a Castellated circuit board.
You can simply solder the berge pins to these boards which helps you to experiment with some projects by doing it on a solderless breadboard, After the successful operation, you can simply solder Pico board on another solder board (Like soldering SMD components on PCB).
If you have observed carefully then you saw there are 40 Pins on the Pico board 20 pins on each side and additional 3 pins at the bottom of the board which are Debug pins.
The Raspberry Pi's logo is etched on the top of the chip.
On the pico board, there is a Micro-USB port is placed, This port can be used to power up the Pico board and also used to program it by computer.
Just below the Micro-USB port, there is a small push button which is marked as BootSel. The Bootsel means Boot selection button which switches Pico between two start-up modes.
At the bottom of the board, there are three smaller gold pads marked as "DEBUG". These pins are used for debugging & finding errors in the program while running.
At the backside of the Pico board, you will see it has written on it. It's called the Silk-Screen layer of the PCB board. You will see the labels of each pin. Like GPO,GP1,RUN,GND,3V3. etc.
Pinouts of Raspberry Pi Pico
If you want to use Pico, I'll recommend you to use the following pinouts diagram to make connections, Because at the top of pico the pins are not labeled.
There are 26 Multi-function 3.3V GPIO(General Purpose Input / Output) Pins.
- 2 X SPI Controller
- 2 X I2C Controller
- 2 X UART
- 16 X PWM Pins
Features of Raspberry Pi Pico
- Dimension:- 21mm X 51mm
- CPU:- Dual-core Arm Cortex M0+
- Input Power:- 1.8 - 5.5 VDC
- Operating Temperature:- -20°C to +85°C
- 264KB on-chip SRAM
- 2MB QSPI Flash
- 26 GPIO Pins
- 2 X SPI Controller
- 2 X I2C Controller
- 2 X UART
- 16 X PWM Pins
- Mico USB Port
- Inbuilt Temperature Sensor
- Inbuilt accurate On-chip clock
- Low power consumption module
- Drag & drop programming using mass storage over USB.
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