Model B+ Hardware General Specifications

Official Raspberry Pi Page www.raspberrypi.org/products/model-b-plus/ Memory 512MB RAM Connections 4 USB ports Ethernet port 3.5mm jack for audio & composit video out HDMI Processor SoC is a Broadcom BCM2835 This contains an ARM1176JZFS (ARM11 using an ARMv6-architecture core) with floating point, running at 700Mhz, and a Videocore 4 GPU. GPU The first version of the […]

Read More

Using Model B SD Cards On The Model B+

SD cards should be interchangeable between a model B and a model B+ as long as the card was created since the release of the Model B+, or has been inserted into a model B since the B+ was released and these commands entered to update the OS and any other packages supported by apt-get: sudo apt-get update […]

Read More

Model B+ Power

RPi Power Consumption Varies depending on how busy it is and what peripherals are connected. Running a GUI and running the GPU will take extra power. The USB devices and Ethernet connection will take power. General usage Typically, the Model B+ will use 600mA and upwards (up to a maximum of 2A) depending on what […]

Read More

Model B+ IO Pins

  Note that we are not currently sure if the new pin 27-40 PWM1, GPCLK1 and GPCLK2 peripheral pin functions will be made accessible under Raspbian and if so which pins they will be assigned to, hence the duplicated pins shown with these functions. Lost From The Model B Rev 2 Board The P5 connector is not […]

Read More

Model B+ schematics

The model B+ schematic is available from here. Currently only a reduced schematic has been released (2014-09) but they say they'll release a full schematic in due course.   

Read More