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A comment on Boufallo Lab BL616/BL618 RISC-V MCU Supports WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, and Zigbee.

Re:Boufallo Lab BL616/BL618 RISC-V MCU Supports WiFi 6, Blue... by MayeulC on Saturday December 31, 2022 @06:42AM (#34195569)
Support for Thread too! I eonder how hard it would be to build an yggdrasil (or similar, like pinecone) network on top of thread.

I wish it had PIO similar to the Pi microcontroller though. These are game-changing for GPIO, I wonder if they are patented?

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Re:Boufallo Lab BL616/BL618 RISC-V MCU Supports WiFi 6, Blue... by SV_BubbleTime on Saturday December 31, 2022 @10:47AM (#34197429)
With this type of chip use the proper term, “support”.
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Re:Boufallo Lab BL616/BL618 RISC-V MCU Supports WiFi 6, Blue... by bri3d on Saturday December 31, 2022 @12:53PM (#34198828)
PIO is supposedly patent pending.

Other CPUs have similar ideas, but none in the hobby space that I'm aware of. For example, Infineon Tricore has PCP (Peripheral Control Processor), which is more advanced but serves an identical role - offloading time-critical pin manipulation interrupt service from the CPU to a dedicated IO coprocessor.

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