Chips and connectors on my Raspberry Pi 5 board

Though I received my Raspberry Pi 5 board today, I am unable to use it as power supply, microSD card and microHDMI to HDMI adapter are yet to arrive! Hence I thought of having a detailed look at the board instead. Took a few photographs under spotlight and magnification. A good knowledge of the board is needed for me to work with it for potential innumerable projects. The first thing which caught my attention was the BCM2712, main processor of Raspberry Pi 5, manufactured by Broadcom. It has a 64-bit quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 CPU running at 2.4 GHz, compared to the 1.5 GHz BCM2711 of Raspberry Pi 4.

This chip near the name of Raspberry Pi 5, and located near the main processor should be the 4 GB LPDDR4 SDRAM. LPDDR-4 stands for low-power, double-data-rate 4th generation. SDRAM stands for synchronous dynamic random-access memory.

This is the PCIe port, which means Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, a high speed serial interface for connecting components like graphics card and solid state drive.

HDMI0 and HDMI1 are microHDMI ports near each other. HDMI stands for High Definition Multimedia Interface. I will need a microHDMI to HDMI adapter to connect any standard HDMI monitor to these ports. I shall show that as soon as I get it in a couple of days.

This is the type C USB (Universal Serial Bus) port near the HDMI ports. Power can be delivered through this port using a Raspberry Pi 5 compatible power supply. I will be showing that as well, in a few days. Earlier I had connected a USB cable connected to my laptop and the power LED lit up immediately!

DA9091 Power Management IC (PMIC) can be seen here. It follows the USB PD communications. PD stands for power delivery as can be seen with some mobile chargers with thicker cables capable of handling higher power for fast charging.

HAT stands for Hardware Attached on Top. Radioberry used by radio amateurs is a Raspberry Pi HAT. GPIO stands for General Purpose Input/Output, meaning that these digital pins can be configured either as input or output or both. This image shows only part of the pins of the interface near which the name is written. All the images shown here are zoomed images taken under spotlight for better visualization.

Here is the Broadcom BCM54213PE gigabit Ethernet transceiver chip. It handles data transmission over Ethernet network. It is a triple speed device, meaning that it can handle 1000MBps, 100MBps and 10MBps data networks.

These are the 22 pin camera and display serial interfaces. Smaller displays like the 7 inch touch display for Raspberry Pi can be connected to this interface.

MicroSD card holder is located on the under surface of the Raspberry Pi 5 board. MicroSD card is required for holding the Raspberry Pi OS. It has been mentioned that any capacity below 2TB is compatible. I have ordered a 128 GB microSD card, which is yet to arrive. I have not shown the couple of USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports as they are well known. Raspberry Pi 5 does not have the 3.5 mm AV jack which is there in Raspberry Pi 4. If you have to get audio out from the board, HDMI ports can be used. Most HDMI monitors including the official Raspberry Pi monitor, has audio functionality and can be connected to the HDMI ports.