January 25, 2021
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Farnell, an Avnet Company and global distributor of electronic components, products and solutions, has announced the availability of the first product built on Raspberry Pi-designed silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico.
This new product brings Raspberry Pi’s signature values of high performance, low cost, and ease of use to the microcontroller market, in a game-changing $4 development kit. Farnell customers will be able to purchase the Raspberry Pi Pico from the Farnell website from Monday 25th January.
Raspberry Pi Pico is built around the brand-new Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller, delivering a flexible, highly affordable development platform that can also be directly deployed into end products, reducing time-to-market. RP2040 offers high performance for integer workloads, a large on-chip memory, and a wide range of I/O options, making it a flexible solution for a wide range of microcontroller applications.
First product built on Raspberry Pi-designed silicon – Raspberry Pi Pico – now available from Newark
The high-performance and low-cost Raspberry Pi Pico is designed to be easily incorporated into a range of professional microcontroller applications.
Newark, an Avnet Company and global distributor of electronic components, products and solutions, has today announced the availability of the first product built on Raspberry Pi-designed silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico. This new product brings Raspberry Pi’s signature values of high performance, low cost, and ease of use to the microcontroller market, in a game-changing $4 development kit. Newark customers will be able to purchase the Raspberry Pi Pico from the Newark website starting on Monday, January 25.
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Raspberry Pi PCI Express device compatibility database
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 IO Board exposes the Pi’s PCI Express 1x lane directly on the board. I’m (Jeff Geerling) testing many PCIe cards with the Pi and adding them to the listing below. Also check out videos about them on my YouTube channel!
This project is maintained on GitHub; suggest new cards to test or share your own experiences there. These helpful resources can help you in your own PCIe testing on the Pi, or can inspire you to create your own custom Pi boards!
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But a big chunk of its sales are destined for industrial applications. Raspberry Pi estimates 44% of the computers are sold to the industrial market each year. It bases this figure on the observation that large numbers of older models continue being bought after sales of the latest Raspberry Pi decline. Typically sales of a consumer product drop off once a new product is released, but we still see incredible sales of older models of Raspberry Pi. Our inference is that these are destined for embedded applications, where changing to the latest model is not practical, said Roger Thornton, a Raspberry Pi hardware engineer in a blogpost.