Raspberry Pi Hardware

Raspberry Pi is a leading designer of high-performance single-board computers, compute modules, and semiconductor products. Our technology is used in industrial applications by manufacturers that integrate our hardware into their own products and processes, as well as by enthusiasts, educators, and researchers. Our mission is to put high-performance, low-cost, general-purpose computing platforms in the hands of engineers and enthusiasts all over the world. Since 2012, over 75 million Raspberry Pis have been sold worldwide.

The Raspberry Pi platform includes single-board and modular computers built on the Arm architecture and running the Linux operating system:

• Raspberry Pi single-board computer (SBC): The flagship Raspberry Pi series offers high-performance hardware, a full Linux operating system, and a variety of common ports in a form factor roughly the size of a credit card.
• Raspberry Pi Zero: Small and affordable models in a minimal form factor provide a full Linux operating system and essential ports with low power consumption.
• Raspberry Pi Compute Module (CM): Boards designed for embedded and industrial applications provide the same hardware as flagship SBCs but in a smaller form factor with no onboard connectors. Instead, they connect to a separate baseboard that supplies the necessary ports and pins.

Professional engineers use Raspberry Pi hardware in a range of applications, including embedded systems, industrial control, consumer electronics, computing and servers, edge AI, robotics, and Internet of Things (IoT) systems. In academia, teachers and students use the boards to learn programming and electronics.

The Raspberry Pi Blockset from MathWorks provides blocks and functions in MATLAB^® and Simulink^® for prototyping and implementing applications on Raspberry Pi hardware. You can acquire sensor data and control actuators by interfacing with hardware peripherals such as GPIO, I2C, SPI, and camera modules. You can deploy your MATLAB and deep learning applications to Raspberry Pi using automatic code generation, with live parameter tuning and signal monitoring. For support details, see the Raspberry Pi Blockset product page. More information on Raspberry Pi hardware is available on its support site.