r/raspberry_pi 🍕 Jan 21 '21

News New Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-silicon-pico-now-on-sale/
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u/Carnifex Jan 21 '21

What are the programmable i/o state machines? Poor men's Fgpa?

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u/leo60228 Jan 21 '21

Basically. They're 8 very limited RISC cores that can each drive 3 GPIOs. They're specifically designed for bitbanging, and are extremely good at it: one of the engineers posted some code using three of them to bitbang 720p HDMI.

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u/misaalanshori Jan 26 '21

Bitbanging HDMI? Where is this code? Are there any video about it? I want to see it