A few hours from the Pico 2 W, Raspberry Pi ha presented Compute Module 5modular version of the Raspberry Pi 5 board. The price starts from £45 – in Italy we find it around €55-60, but it reaches €110 for the version with more memory and storage.
Raspberry Pi created Compute Module in 2014 for all those who do not find the Raspberry Pi form factor or the chosen set of peripherals adequate. Compute Module, as the name implies, is a module with the essential features of Raspberry Pi – processor, memory, non-volatile storage and energy regulation – for customers in the embedded or industrial sector who need to create custom products. Compute Module 5, therefore, offers what is already guaranteed by Raspberry Pi 5, but in a more compact format.
Everything starts from the heart, the Broadcom BCM2712 16 nanometer product in which we find a CPU ARM Cortex-A76 con 4 core a 64 bit operating at 2.4 GHz, supported by 512 KB of L2 cache per core and 2 MB of shared L3 cache. The CPU is joined by the GPU VideoCore VII with support for OpenGL ES 3.1 and Vulkan 1.2 and completely open source MESA drivers thanks to Igalia.
The new GPU hardware video scaler (HVS) allows you to drive two screens in 4K at 60 fps via as many HDMI portsa step forward compared to the single 4Kp60 or two 4Kp30 guaranteed by the Raspberry Pi 4. decoder HEVC 4Kp60 and a new Image Sensor Pipeline (ISP), both developed in-house, complete the multimedia subsystem.
Compute Module 5 is available in versions with 2, 4 or 8GB of LPDDR4X-4267and with 16, 32 or 64GB of MLC eMMC. A version with 16 GB of RAM will come in 2025.
Optional dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11ac and Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity, two USB 3.0 interfaces, one Gigabit Ethernet, 30 GPIOs, one PCIe 2.0 x1 interface, 2 4-line MIPI transmitters for camera/display and a rich selection of peripherals ( UART, SPI, I2C, I2S, SDIO, and PWM) complete the offer.
The Compute Module 5 is mechanically compatible with its predecessorexposing all signals through a pair of high-density perpendicular connectors, which connect to corresponding parts on the carrier board. Further stability is provided by four M2.5 mounting holes located at the corners of the board.
Compute Module 5 is accompanied by several accessories: the IO Board is able to provide all the interfaces of a Compute Module 5. It serves both as a development platform and as a reference baseboard (with design files in KiCad format), reducing the time to market of Compute Module 5-based projects. Then an IO Case with fan included and a aluminum fin heat sink accompanied by thermal pads to aid heat dissipation from the CPU, memory, wireless module and eMMC. An Antenna kit closes the circle.
Source: www.hwupgrade.it
