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Oct 14, 2024

ESP32-C5 beta board features 2.4GHz and 5GHz SMA antenna connectors, two USB-C ports - CNX Software

Espressif ESP32-C5 microcontroller was announced in June 2022 as the first dual-band WiFi 6 IoT chip from the company. It’s been quiet since then, but things are about to change as the ESP32-C5 beta

Espressif ESP32-C5 microcontroller was announced in June 2022 as the first dual-band WiFi 6 IoT chip from the company. It’s been quiet since then, but things are about to change as the ESP32-C5 beta board’s documentation has very recently been released.

The ESP32-C5 was initially announced as a dual-band WiFI 6 and Bluetooth 5.0 LE SoC, but the user manual for the beta board indicates that it also supports Zigbee 3.0 and Thread 1.3, so there’s an 802.15.4 in the wireless microcontroller. The ESP32-C5 board itself features two SMA connectors for 2.4 GHz and 5GHz antennas or test equipment, two USB-C ports, two 12-pin GPIO header, Boot and Reset buttons, an RGB LED, and a 2-pin header for current measurements.

ESP32-C5 beta board specifications:

You’ll find more hardware details in the user guide (PDF). Nothing is written about software support except it will be supported by the ESP-IDF framework, and I can see some ESP32-C5 code has been added to the GitHub repo and the esptool utility in the last few weeks or months. Espressif Systems has not announced anything yet and the Aliexpress store does not have any ESP32-C5 module or board, but it’s probably a matter of a few weeks or months before beta samples become available, and I’d expect third-party boards to launch sometime in H2 2024.

Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.

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