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Realistically, it doesn't really enable anything new. It's largely a replacement for the ESP8266. It has a few more features of course, but I think the point of
by sircastor 4y ago
Realistically, it doesn't really enable anything new. It's largely a replacement for the ESP8266. It has a few more features of course, but I think the point of early RISC-V products is that they're comparable to existing ARM (or other ISAs) products in their respective spaces.
I like that the ESP32-C3 is a RISC-V chip, but I realized after playing with it for a week that it turned out to not mean much - that's probably because I'm a pretty simplistic user though.
- solarkraft 4y agoA few years ago the only Wifi MCU you could use Rust on was an obscure Realtek one - because it had an ARM core. Having a standard core would've been a great benefit back then, but it seems like nowadays all the tooling you need has been ported to their current architecture as well.
- sircastor 4y agoIf I go through my parts box it's not hard to find Wifi modules that require a substantial amount of config and in some cases a solid understanding of how WiFi works. And they were 10s of dollars a unit. I'm delighted that modules like the ESP8266 showed up and made it easy and shockingly cheap. There was a real windfall moment when Arduino syntax was ported to the 8266, and Espressif has really taken advantage of it.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoSeveral other ARM-based wifi MCUs existed from the major semiconductor companies (TI) and other competitors (Nordic Semi).
- tmpburning 4y ago[dead]