Generic ESP32-WROOM-32 boards

Support for generic ESP32-WROOM-32 boards. More...

Detailed Description

Support for generic ESP32-WROOM-32 boards.

Author

Gunar Schorcht gunar.nosp@m.@sch.nosp@m.orcht.nosp@m..net

ESP32-WROOM-32 based boards

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Hardware
   1. MCU
   2. Board Configuration
   3. Board Pinout
   4. Optional Hardware Configurations
3. Flashing the Device

Overview

This board definition covers not just a single board, but rather a large set of generic boards that use an ESP32-WROOM-32 module and simply break out all GPIOs to external pads without having any special hardware or interfaces on-board. Examples are Espressif's ESP32-DevKitC or NodeMCU-ESP32S and a large number of clones.

Espressif ESP32-DevKitC V4

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Hardware

This section describes

• the MCU,
• the default board configuration,
• optional hardware configurations,
• the board pinout.

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MCU

Most features of the board are provided by the ESP32 SoC. For detailed information about the ESP32, see section MCU ESP32.

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Board Configuration

Generic ESP32-WROOM-32 boards do not have special hardware on board and all GPIOs are simply broken out for flexibility. Therefore, the board configuration is the most flexible one with provides:

18 x ADC channels at maximum 2 x DAC channels at maximum 2 x SPI at maximum 1 x I2C at maximum 2 x UART

Since all GPIOs have broken out, GPIOs can be used for different purposes in different applications. For flexibility, GPIOs can be listed in various peripheral configurations. For example, GPIO13 is used in the ADC channel definition and the definition of the MOSI signal of SPI_DEV(0).

This is possible because GPIOs are only used for a specific peripheral interface when

• the corresponding peripheral module is used, e.g. periph_i2c, or
• a corresponding init function is called z. adc_init, dac_init and pwm_init or
• The corresponding peripheral interface is used for the first time, e.g. `spi_aqcuire.

That is, the purpose for which a GPIO is used depends on which module or function is used first.

For example, if module periph_i2c is not used, the GPIOs listed in I2C configuration can be used for the other purposes.

The following table shows the default board configuration, which is sorted according to the defined functionality of GPIOs. This configuration can be overridden by application-specific configurations.

Function	GPIOs	Remarks	Configuration
BUTTON0	GPIO0
ADC	GPIO0, GPIO2, GPIO4, GPIO12, GPIO13, GPIO14, GPIO15, GPIO25, GPIO26, GPIO27, GPIO32, GPIO33, GPIO34, GPIO35, GPIO36, GPIO39		see ADC Channels
DAC	GPIO25, GPIO26		refer
PWM_DEV(0)	GPIO0, GPIO2, GPIO4, GPIO16, GPIO17	-	DAC Channels
PWM_DEV(1)	GPIO27, GPIO32, GPIO33	-	PWM Channels
I2C_DEV(0):SDA	GPIO21		I2C Interfaces
I2C_DEV(0):SCL	GPIO22		I2C Interfaces
SPI_DEV(0):CLK	GPIO18	VSPI is used	SPI Interfaces
SPI_DEV(0):MISO	GPIO19	VSPI is used	SPI Interfaces
SPI_DEV(0):MOSI	GPIO23	VSPI is used	SPI Interfaces
SPI_DEV(0):CS0	GPIO5	VSPI is used	SPI Interfaces
SPI_DEV(1):CLK	GPIO14	HSPI is used	SPI Interfaces
SPI_DEV(1):MISO	GPIO12	HSPI is used	SPI Interfaces
SPI_DEV(1):MOSI	GPIO13	HSPI is used	SPI Interfaces
SPI_DEV(1):CS0	GPIO15	HSPI is used	SPI Interfaces
UART_DEV(0):TxD	GPIO1	Console (configuration is fixed)	UART interfaces
UART_DEV(0):RxD	GPIO3	Console (configuration is fixed)	UART interfaces
UART_DEV(1):TxD	GPIO10	not available in qout and qio flash mode	UART interfaces
UART_DEV(1):RxD	GPIO9	not available in qout and qio flash mode	UART interfaces

Note

• The configuration of ADC channels contains all ESP32 GPIOs that can be used as ADC channels.
• The configuration of DAC channels contains all ESP32 GPIOs that can be used as DAC channels.
• GPIO9 and GIOP10 can only be used in dout and dio flash modes.

For detailed information about the configuration of ESP32 boards, see section Common Peripherals.

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Optional Hardware Configurations

MRF24J40-based IEEE 802.15.4 radio modules and ENC28J60-based Ethernet network interface modules have been tested with the board. You could use the following code in your application-specific configuration to use such modules:

#ifdef BOARD_ESP32_WROOM-32
 
#if MODULE_MRF24J40
#define MRF24J40_PARAM_CS       GPIO16       /* MRF24J40 CS signal    */
#define MRF24J40_PARAM_RESET    GPIO17       /* MRF24J40 RESET signal */
#define MRF24J40_PARAM_INT      GPIO34       /* MRF24J40 INT signal   */
#define MRF24J40_PARAM_SPI_CLK  SPI_CLK_1MHZ /* SPI clock frequency */
#endif
 
#if MODULE_ENC28J80
#define ENC28J80_PARAM_CS       GPIO32      /* ENC28J80 CS signal    */
#define ENC28J80_PARAM_RESET    GPIO33      /* ENC28J80 RESET signal */
#define ENC28J80_PARAM_INT      GPIO35      /* ENC28J80 INT signal   */
#endif
 
#endif

For other parameters, the default values defined by the drivers can be used.

Note

The RESET signal of MRF24J40 and ENC28J60 based modules can also be connected to the RST pin of the board (see pinout) to keep the configured GPIO free for other purposes.

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Board Pinout

The following figure shows the pinout of the defined default configuration for the EPS32-DevKitC board as an example of generic ESP32-WROOM-32 boards. The light green GPIOs are not used by configured on-board hardware components and can be used for any purpose. However, if optional off-board hardware modules are used, these GPIOs may also be occupied, see section Board Configuration for more information.

The corresponding board schematics can be found here

EPS32-DevKitC V4 Pinout

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Flashing the Device

Flashing RIOT is quite easy. The board has a Micro-USB connector with reset/boot/flash logic. Just connect the board to your host computer and type using the programming port:

make flash BOARD=esp32-wroom-32 ...

For detailed information about ESP32 as well as configuring and compiling RIOT for ESP32 boards, see RIOT-OS on ESP32 SoC Series Boards.

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Files
file	arduino_iomap.h
	Mapping from MCU pins to Arduino pins.
file	board.h
	Board specific definitions for generic ESP32-WROOM-32 boards.
file	gpio_params.h
	Board specific configuration of direct mapped GPIOs.
file	periph_conf.h
	Peripheral MCU configuration for generic ESP32-WROOM-32 boards.