What would you look forward to being on the Raspberry Pi 5 ?

I remember people were really keen for more USB ports, for a standardised board layout, for more GPIO, for customisable GPIO, for Wireless LAN / WiFi, Bluetooth, faster ethernet, faster USB, and being a 64bit, quad core, faster processor.

And, we have all of that. We even have the compute module with pcie broken out.

What would you want on the Raspberry Pi 5?

shabaz over 2 years ago in reply to cstanton

It would be nice to have a small built-in amplifier for alerts/tones etc. But I guess it's minor, it's easy to attach that as a separate add-on.

With the chip shortage and the DAC factory fire a couple of years ago, it would be hard for a Pi 5 to have a really decent DAC chip. The one on the HiFiBerry board is $10 and there's only a few hundred available at a couple of distributors, it's really scarce.

It would double the cost of the Pi perhaps, once all the other nice parts (op amp buffer, clock source) are added to enable the very high-end audio (and some people might not want it anyway, if they are streaming using say Bluetooth to a digital speaker.

Plus it's hard to get great quality without picking up noise on a small board next to the microprocessor.
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cknipe over 2 years ago

Stock would be a good start!
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cstanton over 2 years ago in reply to cknipe

cknipe said:
Stock would be a good start

I think that's a given, but what about other things?
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mswope63 over 2 years ago in reply to ntewinkel

They could probably put M.2 support in there somewhere, say via a header, but probably not a slot that takes an M.2 SSD or other card.
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baldengineer over 2 years ago

Since I'm just wishlisting, it's easy to ask to see the power and a USB "port" worked into the GPIO connector somehow.

In terms of performance, I'm ambivalent. I'm sure there'll be more cores or a faster clock or a step-up in GPU or whatever. No matter how (computationally) powerful they make the Pi, someone will come along and ask for more.
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cstanton over 2 years ago in reply to baldengineer

baldengineer said:
and a USB "port" worked into the GPIO connector somehow

I could see that work for USB 2.0, that could be useful
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shabaz over 2 years ago in reply to cstanton

There's a standard for that : )

(image sources: google images)

It's normally for embedded/on-board USB Flash (might be called eUSB, I can't recall), but I think it should be fine for anything.

There's another smaller connector standard too, but this is the 0.1" header one.
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baldengineer over 2 years ago in reply to shabaz

Lol, nice. I think the design challenge is how to incorporate the functionality without changing the existing GPIO.

Not unsolvable, but not trivial either.
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baldengineer over 2 years ago in reply to cstanton

Funny, I was thinking 2.0 was the wish. I was thinking just 1.1 speeds.

That said< i don't think 3.0 speeds would be necessary. I think at that point you're looking at a new Pi form factor.
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Gough Lui over 2 years ago in reply to shabaz

They just borrowed that from the standard USB 2.0 front-panel pinouts on most motherboards ... but ignored the second USB port, leaving them all N/C. Not highly efficient, but can work ...

That being said, different variants of the M.2 socket can also carry USB ...

- Gough
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