Hi everyone,
RISC-V Days Tokyo is Japan’s largest live online RISC-V event, featuring presentations, virtual demo booths, and an online press conference. RISC-V Days Tokyo aims to bring together leading RISC-V technologies and products, key persons and engineers, while providing business opportunities for product recognition, collaboration among companies, and exchange of information among industry experts. Last year’s event attracted a total of 1,053 participants from 11 countries.
This year’s event took place on 22–23 April and, of course, Espressif was there. On 22 April 2021, Espressif’s Senior Software and Technical Marketing Manager, Jeroen Domburg, made a presentation of ESP32-C3, which is Espressif’s recently released, RISC-V-based Wi-Fi+Bluetooth LE SoC. With more than twenty years of experience in embedded systems, Jeroen is involved with both the software and the hardware design process of Espressif’s microcontroller units. Thus, Jeroen discussed the technical specifications of ESP32-C3, which is a SoC intended for IoT connectivity with WiFi and Bluetooth LE. The launch of this chip has also marked Espressif’s first SoC with a RISC-V processor at its core and, therefore, Jeroen talked about our experience of changing over to a RISC-V-based solution.
Jeroen Domburg: Espressif’s Senior Software & Technical Marketing Manager
Other topics you can read about in this month’s newsletter include:
Announcing ESP32-C6: a Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC
ESP32-C6 is Espressif’s first low-power and cost-effective Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC, with a 32-bit RISC-V core, for securely connected devices. ESP32-C6 is already certified by Wi-Fi Alliance.
ESP32-C3 Is Now Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™
ESP32-C3 has passed the Wi-Fi Alliance certificationfor providing industry-leading, Wi-Fi connectivity, and high-standard data security to private users and enterprises alike.
ESP32-S2-HMI-DevKit-1 for Human-Machine Interaction
Espressif recently launched ESP32-S2-HMI-DevKit-1, which is specifically designed for human-machine interfaces in smart-home automation controllers, smart speakers with a display, smart alarm clocks, etc. It comes with a 4.3-inch color LCD and a touch panel.
“App Fairy” for ThingPulse ESP-based Devices Released
ThingPulse has recently developed the App Fairy, in order to make their ESP-based devices more accessible and user-friendly. The App Fairy is a self-contained app store for your computer. It allows you to install and configure applications for ThingPulse devices, without editing any source code.
ESP32-based Autonomous Sensors by VZ
VocalZoom (VZ), a provider of laser sensors for industry 4.0, has just launched its ESP32-basedAutonomous Sensors for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).