PGA2350 by Pimoroni
A minimal but powerful RP2350 breakout board modelled on a Pin Grid Array, with the maximum exposed pins crammed into the smallest possible space.
PGA2350 is a compact RP2350 breakout designed to be embedded in projects where space is limited. It contains the components necessary to run the mighty RP2350B chip (that’s the crystal, regulator and essential support circuits), a beefy 8MB of PSRAM and a prodigious 16MB of flash storage. Note that it has no LEDs, buttons or USB connectors - you’ll need to attach your own USB connector to be able to program it.
All this drastic pruning means you get a small 25.4mm square footprint and a lot of exposed RP2350 pins to play with. 48 of them can be used as general purpose I/O (that’s eighteen more I/O than on a Raspberry Pi Pico!) and 8 are ADC-equipped. We’ve even managed to squeeze in some tiny pin labels to help identify them.
Header pins are sold separately - you can use standard Pico pin headers (though bear in mind you’ll need 64 pins if you want to populate it fully).
Features
- Powered by RP2350B (Dual Arm Cortex M33 running at up to 150MHz with 520KB of SRAM)
- 16MB of QSPI flash supporting XiP
- 8MB PSRAM (CS wired to GP47 via cuttable trace)
- Crystal oscillator
- On-board 3V3 regulator (max regulator current output 300mA)
- 64 pins, arranged with 2.54mm (0.1”) spacing in a Pin Grid Array
- 48 multi-function General Purpose IO (8 can be used for ADC)
- 6 GND pins
- Input voltage range 3V - 5.5V (on VB pin only)
- Measurements: approx 25.4mm x 25.4mm x 3.6mm (L x W x H)
- Programmable with C/C++ or MicroPython
About RP2350
The RP2350 chip is the Double Quarter Pounder & Fries to the RP2040’s Double Cheeseburger and can have one or more RISC-V burgers instead of either of the M33 ARMs, to stretch the metaphor.
In addition to the modern M33 ARM cores, there are sides of: more PIO capability, a variety of low power states for sipping electrons, a whole security system and some sprinklings of specialist digital video circuits to offload DVI/HDMI output.
You can expect a tasty boost in performance - our “real world” MicroPython tests are running up to 2x faster compared to RP2040, and floating point number crunching in C/C++ is up to 20x faster. The extra on-chip RAM will make a big difference when performing memory intensive operations (such as working with higher resolution displays) and even more can be added thanks to external PSRAM support.
RP2350 comes in two flavours - A (standard) and B (all the pins). The B chip has a stonking 48 usable GPIO pins, including 8 ADCs and 24 PWMs, and features on some of our new products.
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CircuitPython 9.2.7
This is the latest stable release of CircuitPython that will work with the PGA2350. Use this release if you are new to CircuitPython.
Modules included in this download
_asyncio _bleio _eve _pixelmap adafruit_bus_device adafruit_pixelbuf aesio analogbufio analogio array atexit audiobusio audiocore audiodelays audiofilters audiomixer audiomp3 audiopwmio binascii bitbangio bitmapfilter bitmaptools bitops board builtins builtins.pow3 busdisplay busio busio.SPI busio.UART codeop collections countio digitalio displayio epaperdisplay errno floppyio fontio fourwire framebufferio getpass gifio hashlib i2cdisplaybus i2ctarget imagecapture io jpegio json keypad keypad.KeyMatrix keypad.Keys keypad.ShiftRegisterKeys keypad_demux keypad_demux.DemuxKeyMatrix locale math memorymap microcontroller msgpack neopixel_write nvm onewireio os os.getenv paralleldisplaybus picodvi pulseio pwmio qrio rainbowio random re rgbmatrix rotaryio rp2pio rtc sdcardio select sharpdisplay storage struct supervisor synthio sys terminalio tilepalettemapper time traceback ulab usb usb_cdc usb_hid usb_host usb_midi usb_video vectorio warnings watchdog zlibCircuitPython 10.0.0-alpha.2
This is the latest development release of CircuitPython that will work with the PGA2350.
Alpha development releases are early releases. They are unfinished, are likely to have bugs, and the features they provide may change. Beta releases may have some bugs and unfinished features, but should be suitable for many uses. A Release Candidate (rc) release is considered done and will become the next stable release, assuming no further issues are found.
Please try alpha, beta, and rc releases if you are able. Your testing is invaluable: it helps us uncover and find issues quickly.
Release Notes for 10.0.0-alpha.2
Modules included in this download
_asyncio _bleio _eve _pixelmap adafruit_bus_device adafruit_pixelbuf aesio analogbufio analogio array atexit audiobusio audiocore audiodelays audiofilters audiomixer audiomp3 audiopwmio binascii bitbangio bitmapfilter bitmaptools bitops board builtins builtins.pow3 busdisplay busio busio.SPI busio.UART codeop collections countio digitalio displayio epaperdisplay errno floppyio fontio fourwire framebufferio getpass gifio hashlib i2cdisplaybus i2ctarget imagecapture io jpegio json keypad keypad.KeyMatrix keypad.Keys keypad.ShiftRegisterKeys keypad_demux keypad_demux.DemuxKeyMatrix locale lvfontio math memorymap microcontroller msgpack neopixel_write nvm onewireio os os.getenv paralleldisplaybus picodvi pulseio pwmio qrio rainbowio random re rgbmatrix rotaryio rp2pio rtc sdcardio select sharpdisplay storage struct supervisor synthio sys terminalio tilepalettemapper time traceback ulab usb usb_cdc usb_hid usb_host usb_midi usb_video vectorio warnings watchdog zlibAbsolute Newest
Every time we commit new code to CircuitPython we automatically build binaries for each board and language. The binaries are stored on Amazon S3, organized by board, and then by language. These releases are even newer than the development release listed above. Try them if you want the absolute latest and are feeling daring or want to see if a problem has been fixed.
Previous Versions of CircuitPython
All previous releases of CircuitPython are available for download from Amazon S3 through the button below. For very old releases, look in the OLD/ folder for each board. Release notes for each release are available at GitHub button below.
Older releases are useful for testing if you something appears to be broken in a newer release but used to work, or if you have older code that depends on features only available in an older release. Otherwise we recommend using the latest stable release.