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by mastax 3334 days ago
This sounds way too good to be true.

- 8 core RISC-V w/DSP

- Hardware Convolution Unit

- RTC

- SDR!?

- Ultra low power

- Low cost

- Lots of libraries

I hope this is real, but I'll believe it when you can buy it.

3 comments

Where do you see a SDR?

It has a software defined /modem/, but that's basically a fancy way of saying it has DSP facilities.

http://greenwaves-technologies.com/en/first-internet-things-...

Has radio capabilities in the imb/s range.

If I understand it correctly it normally only has 64kB of RAM for all the cores together. And 512kB Flash memory. It seems to be possible to add max. 16MB of external RAM of some proprietary kind (HyperBus interface). For applications that usually need a lot of processing power that's not a lot. 333Mbps memory bandwidth isn't either.

Regarding libraries I would expect that they mean that lots of open source libraries and RTOS might probably run.

Seems great for little enhanced sensors and things in between tiny and "just run Linux and call it IoT"
SDR == Software Defined Radio ?