Adafruit QT Py RP2040

Overview

The Adafruit QT Py RP2040 is a small, low-cost, versatile board from Adafruit. It is equipped with an RP2040 SoC, an on-board RGB Neopixel, a USB connector, and a STEMMA QT connector. The USB bootloader allows it to be flashed without any adapter, in a drag-and-drop manner.

Hardware

Dual core Arm Cortex-M0+ processor running up to 133MHz
264KB on-chip SRAM
8MB on-board QSPI flash with XIP capabilities
11 GPIO pins
4 Analog inputs
2 UART peripherals
2 SPI controllers
2 I2C controllers (one via STEMMA QT connector)
16 PWM channels
USB 1.1 controller (host/device)
8 Programmable I/O (PIO) for custom peripherals
On-board RGB LED
1 Watchdog timer peripheral

Supported Features

The adafruit_qt_py_rp2040 board configuration supports the following hardware features:

Peripheral	Kconfig option	Devicetree compatible
NVIC	N/A	`arm,v6m-nvic`
UART	`CONFIG_SERIAL`	`raspberrypi,pico-uart`
GPIO	`CONFIG_GPIO`	`raspberrypi,pico-gpio`
ADC	`CONFIG_ADC`	`raspberrypi,pico-adc`
I2C	`CONFIG_I2C`	`snps,designware-i2c`
SPI	`CONFIG_SPI`	`raspberrypi,pico-spi`
USB Device	`CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_STACK`	`raspberrypi,pico-usbd`
HWINFO	`CONFIG_HWINFO`	N/A
Watchdog Timer (WDT)	`CONFIG_WATCHDOG`	`raspberrypi,pico-watchdog`
PWM	`CONFIG_PWM`	`raspberrypi,pico-pwm`
Flash	`CONFIG_FLASH`	`raspberrypi,pico-flash`
UART (PIO)	`CONFIG_SERIAL`	`raspberrypi,pico-uart-pio`

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.

Default Zephyr Peripheral Mapping:

UART1_TX : P20
UART1_RX : P5
I2C0_SDA : P24
I2C0_SCL : P25
I2C1_SDA : P22
I2C1_SCL : P23
SPI0_RX : P4
SPI0_SCK : P6
SPI0_TX : P3

Programming and Debugging

Flashing

Using UF2

Since it doesn’t expose the SWD pins, you must flash the Adafruit QT Py RP2040 with a UF2 file. By default, building an app for this board will generate a build/zephyr/zephyr.uf2 file. If the QT Py RP2040 is powered on with the BOOTSEL button pressed, it will appear on the host as a mass storage device. The UF2 file should be drag-and-dropped to the device, which will flash the QT Py RP2040.