Beefier Arms next to RV rival CPUs, offering a glimpse of the future
  • @hark
    3•4 months ago

    I wonder if they plan on transitioning fully to RISC-V in the future, it would be cool if that cuts the price down by $1 or so. The Pico series is the only Raspberry Pi product line that interests me these days. Love seeing the increased speeds with decreased power consumption, and the additional PIO state machines are a nice touch. Looking forward to seeing the Pico 2 W!

    • @solrize
      1•4 months ago

      I believe they got a $0 license for the M0+ cores in the 2040. Don’t know about the new 2350. The addition of Risc-v cores might be a flex to defend against future issues with ARM.

      Going from two PIO blocks to three seems timid. Why not hundreds, like one for each gpio pin? And maybe redesign the PIO to allow more than 32 instructions? They are tiny, anyway.

      Anyone know if there is any software for the Risc-v cores so far? Compilers, Micropython, etc.

  • @coke38
    1•4 months ago

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  • @jimmydoreisalefty
    -1•4 months ago

    Raspberry Pi Pico 2 Technical Specifications[1]

    Feature: Raspberry Pi Pico 2 | Raspberry Pi Pico

    SoC: RP2350, Dual Core Arm Cortex M33 or Dual Core RISC-V Hazard3 running at up to 150 Mhz | RP2040, Dual Core Arm Cortex M0+: running at up to 133 MHz

    SRAM: 520 KB | 264 KB

    Flash Storage: 4MB QSPI | 2MB QSPI

    Security: Arm TrustZone, 8KB OTP, Secure Boot | None

    Wi-Fi / Bluetooth: None | None (Pico W has this)

    Language Support: MicroPython, CircuitPython, C, C++ | MicroPython, CircuitPython, C, C++

    USB Interface: USB 1.1 Device and Host | USB 1.1 Device and Host

    GPIO Logic Level: 3.3V | 3.3V

    GPIO: 26 x Digital IO | 26 x Digital IO

    Row 9 - Cell 0: 4 x 12-bit ADC (Analog pins) | 3 x 12-bit ADC (Analog pins)

    Row 10 - Cell 0: 2 x UART, 2 x I2C, 2 x SPI, 24 x PWM | 2 x UART, 2 x I2C, 2 x SPI, 16 x PWM

    Programmable IO: 12 PIO State Machines | 8 PIO State Machines

    Onboard LED: GPIO 25 | GPIO 25

    Power: 1.8 to 5.5V via Micro USB or VSYS | 1.8 to 5.5V via Micro USB or VSYS

    MCU Sleep Mode: <10uA | 100uA

    Dimensions: 21 x 51mm | 21 x 51mm

    Price: $5 | $4

    Screenshot of Specs:

    1. [1] https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-pico/raspberry-pi-pico-2-launches-with-arm-risc-v-cores-hands-on-with-the-new-dollar5-microcontroller ↩︎

    • @coke38
      3•4 months ago

      I wonder if the Alpakka controller can get advantage of this… Thank you and have a nice day

    • Hotdog Salesman
      3•4 months ago

      I was going to say $5 is pricy before I remembered it was dev boards and not chips.

    • ferretEnglish
      2•3 months ago

      Important note on the flash is that both chips have the same 16MB max, and 3rd party pico boards would often just use max spec. The pico 2 additionally supports PSRAM sharing the flash’s qspi