Raspberry Pi has introduced a serious milestone for anybody seeking to transcend off-the-shelf microcontroller boards for his or her subsequent mission: the overall availability of its second-generation RP2350 microcontroller from its community of world resellers.
“Final summer time we unveiled RP2350, our second-generation microcontroller platform, constructing on the success of RP2040, and designed to ship even increased efficiency at the same inexpensive value,” says Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton. “Right this moment, we’re delighted to announce that RP2350 is now available for purchase from our worldwide community of Raspberry Pi Authorized Resellers. Our world community of Raspberry Pi Authorized Resellers ensures you possibly can entry RP2350 shortly and affordably, irrespective of the place you might be, with quick native transport and dependable customer support.”
The RP2350 launched again in August final yr, on board the corporate’s Raspberry Pi Pico 2 microcontroller improvement board — although, technically talking, this was the second gadget to function the chip, after a shock debut on the badge for the DEFCON 32 hackers’ convention. The place the unique RP2050, the corporate’s first in-house microcontroller design, had two Arm Cortex-M0+ cores, the RP2350 options two extra highly effective Arm Cortex-M33 cores plus the choice to make use of a pair of free and open-source RISC-V-based Hazard3 cores as a substitute. There’s 520kB of RAM, enlarged Programmable Enter/Output (PIO) blocks, and a brand new Excessive-Velocity Transmission (HSTX) peripheral that may drive a DVI-compatible show with out tying up the CPU or PIO.
Whereas the RP2350, and its bigger siblings the RP2350A and RP2350B, have been accessible at quantity direct from Raspberry Pi, permitting third-party corporations to launch their very own boards, they haven’t been accessible to people in low minimal order portions — till now. The RP2040 is priced at $0.70 per unit in a 3,400-unit reel, $0.80 per unit in a 500-unit reel, or $1 in single-unit portions; in case you’d somewhat choose up the bigger RP2350, that is $0.80 every in 3,400 portions, $0.90 in 500 portions, or $1.10 for only one chip; and the RP2350B, with the most important general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) provision of any mannequin, is priced at $0.90 per unit in 2,500 portions, $1 in 500 portions, and $1.20 for a single chip.
In addition to the RP2350, discovered on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2, Upton has confirmed incoming flash-integrated RP2354 chips. (📷: Raspberry Pi)
“For smaller-footprint purposes, our RP2354A and RP2354B variants — that includes 2MB of stacked flash reminiscence — are within the remaining phases of improvement and testing with early-access companions,” Upton provides of the corporate’s plans for follow-up designs, referring to the corporate’s plans to launch the primary RP-family chips with built-in flash storage. “We’ll quickly be ramping to mass manufacturing, and plan to make these variants accessible by way of our Authorized Reseller companions later this yr.”
Extra info is out there on the RP2350 household product web page, together with hyperlinks to order the chips from collaborating resellers.
