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I have recently been working with the RAKwireless RAK5010 development board. It includes the popular Nordic nRF52840 MCU for running applications on its Cortex-M4 CPU that can leverage the integrated 2.4 GHz multiprotocol support, as well as the LTE and GNSS support offered by the on-board Quectel BG95-M3 module. The micro-USB port on the board...

In our last post, we explored the Nordic VPR RISC-V processor through the lens of the peripheral processor (PPR) on the nRF54H20. While we demonstrated how the application processor can configure and start a VPR processor, we stopped short of demonstrating any further communication between them. Most meaningful use-cases of the PPR and the FLPR,...

VPR (pronounced “Viper”) is Nordic Semiconductor’s first RISC-V processor, landing in the new nRF54H and nRF54L lines of SoCs after their initial announcements in April and October of 2023 respectively. Readers of this blog are familiar with my long-running obsession interest in RISC-V (see my RISC-V Tips and RISC-V Bytes series). However,...

Nordic Semiconductor recently made their new IoT prototyping platform, the Thingy:91 X, generally available. The Thingy:91 X is an upgrade to their existing prototyping platform, the Thingy:91, replacing the nRF9160 System-in-Package (SiP) with an nRF9151 SiP, the nRF52840 System-on-Chip (SoC) with an nRF5340 SoC, and adding the nRF7002...

The ESP32-S3 is a popular microcontroller (MCU) for a variety of reasons, such as its support for external pseudostatic RAM (PSRAM). One of its lesser known features is its Universal Serial Bus (USB) On-The-Go (OTG) controller. The previously released ESP32-S2, as well as the new ESP32-P4, also have USB OTG support, with the latter having two...