Bulgarian open supply {hardware} specialist Olimex has unveiled a brand new board design, providing a user-friendly platform for experimenting with Espressif’s ESP32-H2 IEEE 802.15.4 system-on-module: the ESP32-H2-DevKit-LiPo.
“[The] ESP32-H2-DevKit-Lipo is new open supply {hardware} board with the brand new Espressif ESP32-H2 sequence SoC [System on Chip],” Olimex founder Tsvetan Usunov writes of the corporate’s newest creation. “[The] ESP32-H2-DevKit-Lipo makes use of similar kind issue [as the] ESP32-DevKit-Lipo. The board is prepared for prototyping and can be launched as soon as design is verified.”
Olimex has introduced an upcoming improvement board for the low-power Espressif ESP32-H2 microcontroller. (📷: Olimex)
Espressif’s ESP32-H2 got here after the corporate made the shift away from proprietary instruction set architectures to the free and open RISC-V structure, changing its common Tensilica Xtensa LX6 or LX7 cores with 32-bit RISC-V cores. The ESP32-H2 particularly provides a single RISC-V core operating at as much as 96MHz, 320kB of static RAM (SRAM), and 128kB of on-chip flash plus 4MB off-chip and 4kB of low-power reminiscence.
Designed for the Web of THings (IoT), the ESP32-H2’s radio block eschews Wi-Fi in favor of a 2.4GHz transceiver supporting Bluetooth 5 Low Vitality BLE) and IEEE 802.15.4 protocols together with Thread, Zigbee, and Matter. The module additionally features a vary of peripherals together with a safety block with SHA, AES, and ECDSA acceleration, temperature sensor, real-time clock, SPI, I2C, I2S, TWAI, and UART buses, and general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) capabilities together with an analog to digital converter (ADC).
Olimex’s improvement board for the module brings out all of those GPIO pins to breadboard-friendly 0.1″ headers, whereas additionally offering two USB Sort-C ports — one to entry the microcontroller’s debug serial port and JTAG debugger, and the opposite for programming and energy. There is a connector for a lithium-polymer battery with charging circuit, bodily reset and bootloader buttons, and each Qwiic/STEMMA QT and UEXT connectors for exterior {hardware}.
The ESP32-H2 is Olimex’s second product unveiling this week, after the GateMateA1-EVB two days in the past. (📷: Olimex)
The revealing comes simply two days after the corporate confirmed off the design for its GateMateA1-EVB, a low-cost open-hardware improvement board constructed across the Cologne Chip GateMate A1 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) — and designed to supply easy accessibility to its Cologne Programmable Parts (CPEs), configurable as eight-input LUT timber of four-input LUT timber with flip-flops or latches.
Regardless of having a broader characteristic set than Espressif’s personal ESP32-H2-DevKitM-1 board, the Olimex ESP32-H2-DevKit-LiPo is predicted to undercut it in value — occurring sale as soon as verification is full for simply €6.50 (round $7.15), lower than the $9.90 Espressif prices for its personal ESP32-H2 board.
Extra data is accessible on the Olimex weblog; no launch date has but been supplied.