Pico 2 by Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 is Raspberry Pi Foundation’s update to their popular RP2040-based Pico board, now built on RP2350: their new high-performance, secure microcontroller. With a higher core clock speed, double the on-chip SRAM (512KB), double the on-board flash memory (4MB), more powerful Arm M33 cores, new security and low-power features, and upgraded interfacing capabilities, the Pico 2 delivers a significant performance and feature boost while retaining hardware and software compatibility with the original Pico.

The unique dual-core, dual-architecture capability of RP2350 allows users to choose between a pair of industry-standard Arm Cortex-M33 cores and a pair of open-hardware Hazard3 RISC-V cores. The M33 has an FPU and is roughly 2× as fast as the M0+ of the RP2040.

Not only is the Pico 2 twice as fast, it has twice as much RAM (520KB vs 264KB) and twice as much flash (4MB vs 2MB). There are also 3 PIO blocks with 4 state machines each (up from 2), plus HSTX (high speed transmission) for high-frequency output signals like DVI.

Blinka supports the Pico 2 via both MicroPython and u2if (USB-to-IF), allowing you to use CircuitPython libraries either directly on the board or from a connected computer.

RP2350 Chip features:

• Dual ARM Cortex-M33 or dual Hazard3 RISC-V @ 150MHz
• 520kB on-chip SRAM
• 4MB of on-board QSPI Flash
• 2 UARTs, 2 SPI controllers, 2 I2C controllers
• 24 PWM channels
• USB 1.1 controller and PHY, with host and device support
• 12 PIO state machines (3 blocks × 4)
• HSTX peripheral

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• Adafruit

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