Raspberry Pi makes RISC-V more accessible

In choosing to put RISC-V cores on its new microcontroller – fear not, there are Arm Coretex-M33 cores too – Raspberry Pi will be helping put this architecture on the map.

Proc0 and Proc1 can independently be set to be an Arm Cortex-M33 or a RISC-V core at boot

Not that RISC-V is not already climbing rapidly in the instruction set sweepstakes, but being supported by Raspberry Pi will give it a boost through Pi’s impeccable reputation for software and hardware support – you know the tools will be there if you want to try RISC-V via RP2350.

And, from day one, Pi has introduced the Pico 2 development/application board to support the MCU (a drop-in for the original RP2040-equipped Pico), along with board announcements from several other companies – including boards with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or LoRa. A Wi-Fi Pico 2 is in the pipeline.

Electronics Weekly covers RP2350 here and here