New Product: The Raspberry Pi Debug Probe
It's fair to say that of the new product launches we see all the time, anything new to Raspberry Pi catches our eye. It's not that their iconic Linux single-board computers (SBCs) are necessarily the best or the fastest on paper, but they're the ones that have enjoyed significant support for over a decade. Add to that their RP2040 microcontroller and its associated Pico boards, and they are the ones to watch.
Today we have news of a new Pi, not a general purpose computer, but useful nonetheless. The Raspberry Pi Debug Probe is a small RP2040-based board that provides an SWD interface for debugging any ARM microcontroller as well as a more generic USB to UART interface.
The article pretty much sums up what this board does: it's aimed at bare-metal ARM encoders, and it uses ARM's built-in debugging infrastructure. This is something that away from Hackaday, we've seen friends use the 2040 as one of the few readily available chips in short supply, and so it's extremely handy to have readily available as a commodity.
>So if you're a high-level programmer, it's not essential, but if you really care about the intricacies of an ARM microcontroller, you'll want one. Of course, this is by no means the first SWD interface we've seen, here's one using an ESP32.
It's fair to say that of the new product launches we see all the time, anything new to Raspberry Pi catches our eye. It's not that their iconic Linux single-board computers (SBCs) are necessarily the best or the fastest on paper, but they're the ones that have enjoyed significant support for over a decade. Add to that their RP2040 microcontroller and its associated Pico boards, and they are the ones to watch.
Today we have news of a new Pi, not a general purpose computer, but useful nonetheless. The Raspberry Pi Debug Probe is a small RP2040-based board that provides an SWD interface for debugging any ARM microcontroller as well as a more generic USB to UART interface.
The article pretty much sums up what this board does: it's aimed at bare-metal ARM encoders, and it uses ARM's built-in debugging infrastructure. This is something that away from Hackaday, we've seen friends use the 2040 as one of the few readily available chips in short supply, and so it's extremely handy to have readily available as a commodity.
>So if you're a high-level programmer, it's not essential, but if you really care about the intricacies of an ARM microcontroller, you'll want one. Of course, this is by no means the first SWD interface we've seen, here's one using an ESP32.
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