Beyond a Single-Board Computer: A Systematic Study of Raspberry Pi Architecture, Comparative Analysis of Raspberry Pi Models, and Insights with NVIDIA Jetson for Embedded Computing

The Raspberry Pi represents a low-cost, small sized single board computer designed to encourage computer science education and provide applications for various purposes.Over the years, the Raspberry Pi has become a flexible computing platform for education, embedded applications, the Internet of Things (IoT) community, robotics, home automation, and industrial automation.This study gives a complete description of the Raspberry Pi system.It includes the computer system architecture, the history of the Raspberry Pi system on chip, the available memory and storage solutions, connectivity modules, and support for various external devices.A comparison among various Raspberry Pi boards explains the performance variations, power requirements, and applications of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. The use of Raspberry Pi operating system software and various computer science education tools, such as Python, Scratch, Greenfoot, and BlueJ, has been discussed to demonstrate the viability of Raspberry Pi for computer science education.The Raspberry Pi computer represents a scalable, efficient, and accessible platform.It fills the gap for computer science education and engineering applications across various fields of study.