The Banana Pi BPI-PicoW-S3 is a low-powered microcontroller designed for IoT development and Maker DIY board. same size as the Raspberry Pi Pico board, It supports 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® LE dual-mode wireless communication, the peripheral is compatible with low-power hardware design, and the power consumption is only 10uA in deep sleep mode. Regarding programming, the PicoW-S3 supports ESP-IDF, Arduino, micropython, and other methods.
key features
ESP32-S3, Xtensa® 32 bit LX7
In-packge PSRAM 2MB, Extereal FLASH 8MB
Ultra-low power 10uA
2.4G WIFI, Bluetooth 5, Bluetooth mesh
GPIO, ADC, TOUCH, PWM, I2C, SPI, RMT, I2S, UART, LCD, CAMERA, USB, JTAG
1*microUSB
1*Neopixel LED
Espressif ESP32-S3
Esp32-S3 is an MCU chip that integrates 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5 (LE) and supports Long Range mode. The ESP32-S3 runs on an Xtensa® 32-bit LX7 dual-core processor with a high frequency of 240 MHz, 512 KB built-in SRAM (TCM), 45 programmable GPIO pins, and a rich communication interface. Esp32-s3 supports larger capacity of high-speed Octal SPI flash and off-chip RAM and supports user-configured data caching and instruction caching.
What follows is a description of the most important features of ESP32-S3.
Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 5 (LE) Wireless Connectivity: ESP32-S3 supports a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n) with 40 MHz of bandwidth support. The Bluetooth Low Energy subsystem supports long-range through Coded PHY and advertisement extension. It also supports higher transmission speed and data throughput, with 2 Mbps PHY. Both Wi-Fi and BLE have superior RF performance that is maintained even at high temperatures.
AI Acceleration Support: ESP32-S3 has additional support for vector instructions in the MCU, which provides acceleration for neural network computing and signal processing workloads. The software libraries for the above-mentioned optimized functions will become available very soon, in the form of updates to ESP-DSP and ESP-NN.
Rich IO interfaces: ESP32-S3 has 45 programmable GPIOs and common peripheral interfaces such as SPI, I2S, I2C, PWM, RMT, ADC, UART, SD/MMC host controller, and TWAITM controller. Fourteen of the GPIOs can be configured as capacitive touch inputs for HMI interaction. In addition, ESP32-S3 is equipped with an ultra-low power coprocessor (ULP) and supports multiple low-power modes, making it widely applicable to various low-power application scenarios.
Security mechanism: ESP32-S3 provides comprehensive security mechanisms and protection measures for IoT devices to prevent all kinds of malicious attacks and threats. It supports Flash encryption based on the AES-XTS algorithm, secure startup based on the RSA algorithm, digital signature, and HMAC. Esp32-s3 also includes a new "World Controller" module, which provides two non-interfering execution environments to implement a trusted execution environment or permission separation mechanism.
Hardware spec
BPI-PicoW-S3 Spec Sheet
SoC ESP32-S3, Xtensa® 32-bit LX7 dual core
Basic frequency 240MHz MAX
Operating temperature -40℃~+85℃
On-chip ROM 384KB
On-chip SRAM 512KB
External FLASH 8MB
In-package PSRAM 2MB
WIFI IEEE 802.11 b/g/n, 2.4Ghz band, 150Mbps
Bluetooth Bluetooth 5, Bluetooth mesh
GPIO BPI-PicoW-S3 has led out 27 available GPIOs
ADC 2 × 12-bit SAR ADC supporting 18 analog channel inputs
TOUCH Capacitive Touch Sensor 14
SPI 4
I2C 2. Support master or slave mode
I2S 2, input and output of serial stereo data
LCD 1, support 8-bit ~16-bit parallel RGB, I8080, MOTO6800 interface
CAMERA 1, supports 8-bit ~16-bit DVP image sensor interface
UART 3, supports asynchronous communication (RS232 and RS485) and IrDA
PWM 8 independent channels, 14-bit precision
MCPWM 2
USB 1 × Full Speed USB 2.0 OTG, MicroUSB Female
USB Serial/JTAG Controller 1, USB full speed standard, CDC-ACM, JTAG
Temperature sensor 1, the measurement range is –20 °C to 110 °C, for monitoring the internal temperature of the chip
SD/MMC 1 × SDIO host interface, with 2 card slots, supports SD cards 3.0 and 3.01, SDIO 3.0, CE-ATA 1.1, MMC 4.41, eMMC 4.5 and 4.51
TWAI® Controller 1, compatible with ISO11898-1 (CAN specification 2.0)
Generic DMA Controller 5 receive channels and 5 transmit channels
RMT 4-channel transmit, 4-channel receive, shared 384 x 32-bit RAM
Pulse Counter 4 pulse count controllers (units), each unit has 2 independent channels
Timer 4 × 54-bit general-purpose timers, 16-bit clock prescaler, 1 × 52-bit system timer, 3 × watchdog timers
External crystal 40Mhz
RTC and Low Power Management Power Management Unit (PMU) + Ultra Low Power Coprocessor (ULP)
Low power consumption current 10uA
Working Voltage 3.3V
Input voltage 3.3V~5.5V
Controllable full-color LED 1
Controllable monochrome LED 1