Embedded and hobbyist {hardware} specialist Waveshare has launched a board that unashamedly attracts inspiration from two of Raspberry Pi’s product strains, the Raspberry Pi Zero single-board laptop household and the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 microcontroller improvement board: the RP2350-PiZero.
“RP2350-PiZero is a high-performance and cost-effective microcontroller board designed by Waveshare,” the corporate says of its newest {hardware} design, “[with] onboard DVI interface, TF [TransFlash/SD Card] card slot and PIO [Programmable Input/Output]-USB port, appropriate with [the[ Raspberry Pi 40-pin GPIO [General-Purpose Input/Output] header, with reserved solder pads for PSRAM [Pseudo-Static RAM] chip enlargement, straightforward to develop and combine into merchandise.”
Want the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 was a little bit extra like a Raspberry Pi Zero? You will need the Waveshare RP2350-Zero, then. (📷: Waveshare)
The shape issue of the Waveshare RP2350-PiZero, delivered to our consideration by Linux Gizmos, is, because the title suggests, designed to imitate the Raspberry Pi Zero household of single-board computer systems — full with a 40-pin GPIO header to the higher edge and with mounting factors in the identical locations. Quite than an application-class system-on-chip, although, the half at its coronary heart is a Raspberry Pi RP2350B microcontroller — the corporate’s second-generation in-house design, and the successor to the RP2040.
The RP2350B offers the consumer a alternative of any two cores from a pair of Arm Cortex-M33 with digital sign processor (DSP) and cryptographic accelerators and a pair of free and open-source RISC-V-based Hazard3 cores, all working at as much as 150MHz. There’s 520kB of RAM, with the likelihood for enlargement through non-obligatory PSRAM modules, plus 16MB of off-chip flash storage expandable through microSD Card.
The board contains an HDMI-style DVI output, for connection to an exterior show, and a 40-pin GPIO header. (📷: Waveshare)
The place a Raspberry Pi Zero has two micro-USB ports, the RP2350-PiZero has two USB Sort-C ports — one for programming and energy and the opposite as a USB 1.1 Machine or Host port pushed by the microcontroller’s programmable enter/output (PIO) blocks. An HDMI-compatible connector carries a DVI sign for connection to exterior screens, and there is a JST connector for an non-obligatory exterior battery.
The RP2350-PiZero is now obtainable on the Waveshare retailer, priced at $9.99 earlier than quantity reductions.
