Espressif is lastly launching the long-delayed ESP32-C5 microcontroller, its first RISC-V chip to incorporate dual-band Wi-Fi 6 connectivity alongside Bluetooth Low Power (BLE) and IEEE 802.15.4 radios — full with a brand new improvement board.
“The ESP32-C5-DevKitC-1 is an entry-level improvement board primarily based on the general-purpose module ESP32-C5-WROOM-1. This board integrates full Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (LE), Zigbee, and Thread features,” Espressif says of its new improvement board. “A lot of the I/O pins are damaged out to the pin headers on either side for straightforward interfacing. Builders can both join peripherals with jumper wires or mount ESP32-C5-DevKitC-1 on a breadboard.”
The ESP32-C5 is lastly in the stores — when you’re after a full improvement board, a minimum of. (📷: Espressif)
The ESP32-C5 has been a very long time coming: Espressif introduced the half, its first RISC-V microcontroller to incorporate dual-band Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth Low Power (BLE) connectivity, again in June 2022. It wasn’t till March 2024, nonetheless, that a leak from the corporate would unveil full particulars on the chip’s capabilities and a deliberate improvement board constructed round it — and it took till January this yr for the primary elements to seem within the wild forward of an precise launch.
The brand new improvement board, dropped at our consideration by CNX Software program, marks the primary time the ESP32-C5 has been up on the market in non-beta kind — however comes earlier than Espressif makes the module on which its primarily based, or the chip on which the module relies, out there to buy. It consists of two USB 2.0 Kind-C ports, one for energy and information and the opposite offering a UART connection, a user-addressable RGB LED, and the ESP32-C5 itself with single 32-bit RISC-V core operating at as much as 240MHz, a low-power coprocessor operating at 40MHz, 384kB of static RAM (SRAM) plus 8MB of pseudo-static RAM (PSRAM), 320kB of on-chip flash plus 4MB SPI flash, and the radios.
The ESP32-C5-DevKitC-1 is now out there to order on Espressif’s official AliExpress retailer at $15 plus transport; whereas the corporate has introduced that the ESP32-C5 chip and ESP32-C5-WROOM-1 module are “now in mass manufacturing,” it had not introduced pricing or availability on the time of writing. Extra info is out there within the firm’s documentation.
