Outputting digital video is nothing new for the Raspberry Pi Pico. Again within the early days, Raspberry Pi engineer Luke Wren devised the Pico DVI Sock, grafting HDMI onto the Pico. That undertaking was later refined into PicoDVI. Adafruit’s newest board, Feather RP2040 with DVI could not have a catchy title, however it integrates HDMI / DVI output into its acquainted Feather type issue.
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The RP2040 SoC has graced Adafruit’s Feather type issue earlier than. The Adafruit Feather RP2040 acquired the Editor’s Alternative award upon its launch and has stayed in our Finest RP2040 Boards for 2 years.
The shape issue could not give us all of the GPIO pins of the Pico, however we get Stemma QT, onboard battery charging and easy-to-read GPIO pin references. The Feather RP2040 with DVI supplies these actual options and likewise supplies a digital video output, DVI, that may work with any HDMI monitor if in case you have an HDMI-to-DVI adapter. For now, although, there isn’t any sound
| System on Chip | Raspberry Pi RP2040 |
| Row 1 – Cell 0 | Twin-core Arm Cortex M0+ 133 MHz CPU |
| Row 2 – Cell 0 | 264KB of SRAM |
| Storage | 8MB Flash |
| GPIO | 21 × multi-function 3.3V GPIO pins |
| Row 5 – Cell 0 | 8 Unused pins |
| Row 6 – Cell 0 | Stemma QT |
| Row 7 – Cell 0 | DVI (HDMI) port |
| Energy | USB C (Energy and Knowledge) |
| Row 9 – Cell 0 | Scorching swappable Li-Po charging port |
| Video Output | 640 x 480 or 800 x 480 |
| Dimensions | 53 x 23.3 x 7.7mm |
Adafruit boards are intrinsically linked to CircuitPython, however to get essentially the most from this new board you will want to make use of the PicoDVI library for Arduino or the Pico SDK. Producing video by way of the RP2040 requires one core of the twin core SoC and makes use of each Programmable IO (PIO).
Assets shall be tight as producing a 320 x 240 video will take 150KB, and 400 x 240, 190KB of the 264KB SRAM. The HDMI connector has its I2C pins linked to the SDA / SCL pins of the Adafruit Feather RP2040 with DVI. This allows customers to learn the EDID EEPROM of a show, helpful for debug.
Adafruit has listed the Adafruit Feather RP2040 with DVI as “coming quickly” and for now there isn’t any worth listed.
