Olimex Opens Orders for the "Most Comprehensive and Feature-Rich ESP32-P4 Board on the Market"

Bulgarian open hardware specialist Olimex has opened pre-orders for a new development board, which founder Tsvetan Usunov proclaims to be "the most comprehensive and feature-rich [Espressif] ESP32-P4 board on the market:" the ESP32-P4-PC.

"Built around the powerful dual-core [Espressif] ESP32-P4 RISC-V SoC [System-on-Chip], this board delivers serious performance and unmatched peripheral integration for advanced embedded and IoT [Internet of Things] development," Usunov says of the new Olimex ESP32-P4-PC design. "From HMI [Human-Machine Interface] systems and industrial controllers to edge AI [Artificial Intelligence] and vision applications, the ESP32-P4-PC gives you everything in one board."

The open-hardware board features Espressif's ESP32-P4, with two 32-bit RISC-V cores running at up to 400MHz, 768kB of static RAM (SRAM), plus 32MB of off-chip pseudo-static RAM (PSRAM). There's 16MB of flash storage, native Fast Ethernet brought out to a full-size RJ45 connector with optional Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) support, USB JTAG debugging, MIPI Camera Serial Interface (CSI) and Display Serial Interface (DSI) ports plus an HDMI-compatible port for video output, analog audio, a UEXT expansion header, and microSD support for storage expansion.

Elsewhere on the board is a lithium-polymer battery charging circuit, which includes battery and external power sensing capabilities for operation as an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), three mounting holes, and all general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pins not used for on-board hardware brought out to a 0.1"-spaced 20-pin header. Finally, there's a USB Type-C connector for external power.

The ESP32-P4-PC is expected to begin shipping starting on February 23rd, Usunov says, with pre-orders open now on the Olimex store at €24.95 (around $30). Design files for the board, meanwhile, are already available on GitHub under the permissive MIT license.