Comment by Rohansi

19 hours ago

520KB of SRAM is actually on the high end for microcontrollers. It doesn't seem like much but SRAM is on-die and significantly lower density than DRAM. For comparison, it's the same type of memory used for CPU caches, which are also small!

You can easily find dev boards with 8MB of PSRAM online if you need it. Or you can buy the PSRAM and hook it up yourself. If you still need more memory than that then you're looking at the wrong chip for the job.

I shouldn’t wish for more onboard RAM for the next Pico iteration because other boards already have more. Okay, dude.

  • Other boards with the same MCU as the Pico, yes. The only downside is you lose one GPIO.