Raspberry Pi's RP2350 is Here!
Raspberry Pi's newest microcontroller is now available on our SparkFun Pro Micro form factor and on the new Pico 2!
It's always an exciting day when we get to announce a new Raspberry Pi product, but it's even better when we get to put it on a SparkFun board (raspberries are red after all)! Today, we are please to introduce you to the new RP2350 microcontroller featured on two new boards, SparkFun's own Pro Micro and the ever popular Raspberry Pi Pico 2! Since the release of the RP2040 in 2021, Raspberry Pi has been on a roll with their focus on microcontrollers and we love to see the improvements they've made on an already solid design. Let's take a look at these two new boards!
The newest Pro Micro featuring the new RP2350 is available today!
The SparkFun RP2350 Pro Micro provides a powerful development platform in SparkFun's compact Pro Micro form factor, built around the RP2350 from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. This board uses the updated Pro Micro form factor. It includes a USB-C connector, Qwiic connector, WS2812B addressable RGB LED, Boot and Reset buttons, resettable PTC fuse, and PTH and castellated solder pads.
The RP3250 is a unique dual-core microcontroller with two ARM® Cortex® M33 processors and two Hazard3 RISC-V processors, all running at up to 150 MHz! Now, this doesn't mean the RP2350 is a quad-core microcontroller. Instead, users can select which two processors to run on boot instead. You can run two processors of the same type or one of each. The RP2350 also features 520kB SRAM in ten banks, a host of peripherals including two UARTs, two SPI and two I2C controllers, and a USB 1.1 controller for host and device support.
The Pro Micro also includes two expanded memory options: 16MB of external Flash and 8MB PSRAM connected to the RP2350's QSPI controller. The RP2350 Pro Micro works with C/C++ using the Pico SDK and MicroPython development environments.
Now available for pre-order, the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 is a new, $5 microcontroller board from Raspberry Pi. It's built on the RP2350: a new high-performance, secure microcontroller also from Raspberry Pi. The RP2350 features a higher core clock speed, double the on-chip SRAM, double the on-board flash memory, more powerful Arm cores, optional RISC-V cores, new security features, and upgraded interfacing capabilities. The Raspberry Pi Pico 2 delivers a significant performance and feature boost, while retaining hardware and software compatibility with earlier members of the Raspberry Pi Pico series.
The RP2350 provides a comprehensive security architecture, built around Arm TrustZone for Cortex-M, and incorporating signed boot, 8KB of antifuse OTP for key storage, SHA-256 acceleration, a hardware TRNG, and fast glitch detectors. These features, including the secure boot ROM, are extensively documented and available to all users without restriction. This transparent approach, which contrasts with the “security through obscurity” offered by legacy vendors, allows professional users to integrate RP2350, and Raspberry Pi Pico 2, into products with confidence.
We are beyond excited to get our hands on the new Raspberry Pi Pico 2 and create new projects, but what do you want to use it for? Are you excited to try making something new with Raspberry Pi's newest microcontroller? Let us know in the comments below and we'll talk with you again tomorrow with more information on the SparkFun Original RP2350 board!
