WIZnet W5500-EVB-Pico

The W5500-EVB-Pico is a microcontroller evaluation board based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller chip and a full hardwired TCP/IP controller W5500 chip.

As the board uses the same pin layout as the Raspberry Pi Pico and includes W5500 embedded ethernet controller, giving you the power of a Raspberry Pi Pico with Ethernet connectivity in a single board!

Updated version! We're now stocking the W5500 version of this board

There's a detailed getting started guide and firmware examples, and it's also the first RP2040-based device to receive AWS IoT Core Qualification!

Don't forget to grab a micro-USB cable for programming. The board comes with a pair of male headers but we also have female and stacking sets in the store.

Features

• RP2040 microcontroller with 2MB Flash
  • Dual-core Cortex M0+ at up to 133MHz
  • 264kByte multi-bank high-performance SRAM
  • External Quad-SPI Flash with eXecute In Place (XIP)
  • High-performance full-crossbar bus fabric
  • 30 multi-function General Purpose IO (4 can be used for ADC)
    • 1.8-3.3V IO Voltage (NOTE. Pico IO voltage is fixed at 3.3V)
  • 12-bit 500ksps Analogue to Digital Converter (ADC)
  • Various digital peripherals
    • 2 × UART, 2 × I2C, 2 × SPI, 16 × PWM channels
    • 1 × Timer with 4 alarms, 1 × Real Time Counter
  • 2 × Programmable IO (PIO) blocks, 8 state machines total
  • Flexible, user-programmable high-speed IO
  • Can emulate interfaces such as SD Card and VGA
• Includes W5500 Embedded Ethernet Controller
  • Supports Hardwired Internet Protocols: TCP, UDP, ICMP, IPv4, ARP, IGMP, PPPoE
  • Supports 8 Independent Hardware SOCKETs simultaneously
  • Internal 32 Kbytes Memory for TX/ RX Buffers
  • Supports High Speed Serial Peripheral Interface(SPI MODE 0, 3)
• Other Features
  • Micro-USB B port for power and data (and for reprogramming the Flash)
  • 40 pin 21×51 ‘DIP’ style 1mm thick PCB with 0.1″ through-hole pins also with edge castellations
  • 3-pin ARM Serial Wire Debug (SWD) port
  • 10 / 100 Ethernet PHY embedded
  • Supports Auto-Negotiation
    • Full / Half Duplex
    • 10 / 100 Based
  • Built-in RJ45
  • Built-in LDO
  • RUN and ROOTSEL buttons

Hardware Specification

Pinout

The W5500-EVB-Pico pinout is directly connected to the GPIO of RP2040 as shown in the picture above. It has the same pinout as the Raspberry Pi Pico board. However, GPIO16, GPIO17, GPIO18, GPIO19, GPIO20, GPIO21 are connected to W5500 inside the board. These pins enable SPI communication with W5500 to use the Ethernet function.

If you are using the Ethernet function, these pins cannot be used for any other purpose.

The RP2040 GPIO used inside W5500-EVB-Pico is as follows.

Apart from GPIO and ground pins, there are 7 other pins on the main 40-pin interface:

Operating Conditions

Recommended maximum ambient temperature of operation is 70C.

Resources

• Getting Started
• Firmware Examples
  • C/C++ Examples
  • CircuitPython Examples
  • MicroPython Examples
  • AWS Examples
  • Azure Examples
  • FreeRTOS Examples
  • LwIP Examples
• AWS Device Catalog
• Getting Started with AWS IoT Core
• RP2040 Datasheet
• W5500 Datasheet
• Schematic
• Schematic Parts List/Gerber

Package Contents

• 1x W5500-EVB-Pico
• 2x 20-pin male headers

Revision History

• As of 30/06/2022 we are now stocking the W5500 version
• As of 25/05/2022 we are stocking the updated rev 1.1 version with an additional RUN button