Espressif Launches the ESP32-P4-Operate-EV-Board, Is Nonetheless Silent on ESP32-P4 Normal Availability

Espressif has launched an official analysis board for its ESP32-P4 system-on-chip — although warns that its present inventory, constructed round pre-production samples of the chip, are lacking a few options that shall be current within the ultimate launch.

“ESP32-P4-Operate-EV-Board is a multimedia improvement board based mostly on the ESP32-P4 chip,” Espressif explains of its newest launch. “With all of its excellent options, the board is a perfect alternative for growing low-cost, high-performance, low-power network-connected audio and video merchandise. The event board is appropriate for prototyping a variety of merchandise, together with visible doorbells, community cameras, good dwelling central management screens, LCD digital value tags, two-wheel car dashboards, and so on.”

The board, delivered to our consideration by CNX Software program, has been a very long time coming: Espressif unveiled the ESP32-P4 again in January 2023, however has but to supply finalized components. The ESP32-P4-Operate-EV-Board, then, makes use of pre-release samples — giving early adopters an opportunity to go hands-on whereas Espressif finalizes the design and places the components into mass manufacturing.

The ESP32-P4 is predicated round two 32-bit RISC-V processor cores operating at as much as 400MHz and features a beneficiant 768kB of static RAM (SRAM) plus vector extensions to speed up on-board machine studying and synthetic intelligence (ML and AI) workloads. There is a two-dimensional graphics accelerator and a imaginative and prescient processing unit with {hardware} acceleration for H.264 and JPEG codecs, a part of Espressif’s positioning of the half as very best for low-power pc imaginative and prescient duties.

The analysis board provides in 32MB of pseudo-static RAM (PSRAM) and 16MB of flash storage, once more concentrating on on-board ML and AI duties, with MIPI Digicam Serial Interface (CSI) and Show Serial Interface (DSI) connectivity. An on-board ESP32-C6-MINI-1 module acts as a communications coprocessor, delivering Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 Low Power (BLE) connectivity, and there is a Quick Ethernet port for wired connectivity too. Elsewhere on the board is a single USB 2.0 Sort-A and a USB 2.0 Sort-C port, a microSD Card slot, a 40-pin general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) header, built-in microphone, analog speaker connector, and a second USB Sort-C connector for energy.

Espressif has already opened orders for the board on its AliExpress retailer, at $55.44 in a bundle with the board itself, seven-inch 1024×600 capacitive touchscreen DSI panel, a two megapixel CSI digicam module, and varied cables and connectors. This, nonetheless, is predicated on the ESP32-P4 v0.1, a pre-production pattern that has two key points: the analog to digital converter (ADC) is uncalibrated, and USB JTAG debugging is just not out there.

Extra info on the board is offered on the Espressif web site.