RP2040-Plus

Overview

RP2040-Plus, a low-cost, high-performance Pico-like MCU board based on Raspberry Pi microcontroller RP2040 including a battery charger.

Hardware

  • Dual core Arm Cortex-M0+ processor running up to 133MHz

  • 264KB on-chip SRAM

  • 4MB/16MB on-board QSPI flash with XIP capabilities

  • 26 GPIO pins

  • 3 Analog inputs

  • 2 UART peripherals

  • 2 SPI controllers

  • 2 I2C controllers

  • 16 PWM channels

  • USB 1.1 controller (host/device)

  • 8 Programmable I/O (PIO) for custom peripherals

  • On-board LED

  • 1 Watchdog timer peripheral

  • on-board battery charger

Supported Features

The rp2040_plus board supports the hardware features listed below.

on-chip / on-board
Feature integrated in the SoC / present on the board.
2 / 2
Number of instances that are enabled / disabled.
Click on the label to see the first instance of this feature in the board/SoC DTS files.
vnd,foo
Compatible string for the Devicetree binding matching the feature.
Click on the link to view the binding documentation.

Pin Mapping

The peripherals of the RP2040 SoC can be routed to various pins on the board. The configuration of these routes can be modified through DTS. Please refer to the datasheet to see the possible routings for each peripheral.

Waveshare RP2040-Plus pinout overview

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

  • UART0_TX : P0

  • UART0_RX : P1

  • I2C0_SDA : P4

  • I2C0_SCL : P5

  • I2C1_SDA : P6

  • I2C1_SCL : P7

  • SPI0_RX : P16

  • SPI0_CSN : P17

  • SPI0_SCK : P18

  • SPI0_TX : P19

  • ADC_CH0 : P26

  • ADC_CH1 : P27

  • ADC_CH2 : P28

Programming and Debugging

The rp2040_plus board supports the runners and associated west commands listed below.

flash debug

Flashing

Using UF2

Here is an example of building the sample for driving the built-in led.

west build -b rp2040_plus samples/basic/blinky

You must flash the RP2040-Plus with an UF2 file. One option is to use West (Zephyr’s meta-tool). To enter the UF2 flashing mode just keep the BOOT button pressed while you connect the USB port, it will appear on the host as a mass storage device. In alternative with the board already connected via USB you can keep the RESET button pressed, press and release BOOT, release RESET. At this point you can flash the image file by running:

west flash

Alternatively, you can locate the generated build/zephyr/zephyr.uf2 file and simply drag-and-drop to the device after entering the UF2 flashing mode.

References