While the news-breaking launch of the Raspberry Pi Pico is still fresh in our minds, here is another launch of a tiny but powerful development board in the world of microcontroller boards on the footprint of Raspberry Pi Pico from Arduino officials. Arduino named it Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect a newly launched Microcontroller board welcoming the Raspberry Pis RP2040chip on which NANO connect has been built. The Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect shares a similar form factor to the Raspberry Pi Pico, but it includes extra functionality, chiefly WiFi and Bluetooth along with a 9-axis IMU sensor and microphone. Arduino also broke the news that they will be porting the Arduino IDE for use with the RP2040 chip. This is welcome news for C/C developers and embedded hobbyists alike. Features and Specifications: Raspberry Pi RP2040 Microcontroller: 133MHz 32bit Dual Core Arm Cortex-M0 264kB on-chip SRAM Direct Memory Access (DMA) controller Support for up to 16MB of off-chip Flash memory via dedicated QSPI bus USB 1.1 controller and PHY, with host and device support 8 PIO state machines Programmable IO (PIO) for extended peripheral support 4 channel ADC with internal temperature sensor, 0.5 MS a/s, 12-bit conversion SWD Debugging 2 on-chip PLLs to generate USB and core clock 40nm process node Multiple low power mode support USB 1.1 Host/Device Internal Voltage Regulator to supply the core voltage Advanced High-performance Bus (AHB)/Advanced Peripheral Bus (APB) U-blox Nina W102 WiFi/Bluetooth Module: 240MHz 32bit Dual Core Xtensa LX6 520kB on-chip SRAM 448 Kbyte ROM for booting and core functions 16 Mbit FLASH for code storage including hardware encryption to protect programs and data 1 kbit EFUSE (non-erasable memory) for MAC addresses, module configuration, Flash-Encryption, and Chip-ID IEEE 802.11b/g/n single-band 2.4 GHz WiFi operation Bluetooth 4.2 Integrated Planar Inverted-F Antenna (PIFA) 4x 12-bit ADC 3x I2C, SDIO, CAN, QSPI Memory: AT25SF128A 16MB NOR Flash QSPI data transfer rate up to 532Mbps 100K program/erase cycles Package Includes: 1 x Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect without Header
