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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by adolph on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:32AM (#37690141)
There's nothing stopping a person from putting an ESP on a RPi B board format (or a Zero one), other than certain IO limitation. The upcoming P4 might be a candidate [0]. If you are interested in sbc in Pi form factors (B, Zero, CM3, CM4), then something I follow is CNX [1]. It will typically have notifications of any new Orange Pi, Libre Computer, etc.

0. https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32-P4

1. https://www.cnx-software.com/news/raspberry-pi/

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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by extraduder_ire on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:47PM (#37693077)
It would be amusing if they used a pi2040 chip to drive the IO pins on such a board. I'm sure there's cheaper chips out there to do this.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by adolph on Thursday September 28, 2023 @09:08PM (#37698103)
It might make sense given pi2040’s PIO capabilities. Additionally, the RPi5’s io chip, RP1, might have some similar tricks inside.

The Raspberry Pi Pico has a fascinating peripheral known as the “Programmable Input/Output” (PIO). This device allows us to write very simple assembly programs to emulate a number of different peripherals and communication protocols.

https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/projects/raspberry-pi-pico-...

RP1 is our I/O controller for Raspberry Pi 5, designed by the same team at Raspberry Pi that delivered the RP2040 microcontroller, and implemented, like RP2040, on TSMC’s mature 40LP process.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/

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