Espressif lately introduced, after a really prolonged delay, that their RISC-V primarily based ESP32-C5 chip is being mass-produced. This chip combines dual-band WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, and 802.15.4 connectivity for protocols like Zigbee and Thread. It’s much like the present ESP32-C6, besides it has a sooner CPU clock, helps dual-band WiFi, and has a bit extra SRAM. It’s low-power co-processor (which many overlook exists on the RISC-V ESP32 chips) additionally runs at double the clock pace in comparison with the C6. This little improvement board is a good way to rise up and operating shortly with the brand new chip!
With twin USB-C connectors (one for UART and programming, the opposite related on to the C5’s USB pins), on-board RGB LED, and even a present measurement take a look at jumper, it packs fairly a bit right into a small package deal. Nevertheless, as a result of the official ESP-IDF libraries solely added assist for the C5 a few months in the past, there isn’t (but) an Arduino bootloader or Micro/CircuitPython runtime. These will possible be coming alongside very quickly, however as of this writing utilizing ESP-IDF is the one technique to rise up and operating.
There may be a number of wonderful documentation for utilizing ESP-IDF, and there are already a mess of video and textual content tutorials for getting began with the ESP32-C5. That being mentioned, when you’re not a robust C programmer, you may wish to anticipate the Arduino or Python firmware to turn out to be accessible! Maintain a watch out as extra tasks pop up utilizing this chip – I believe we’ll begin to see some fairly cool issues being finished with a chip this small an affordable that helps true dual-band WiFi 6!
