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knivd

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Posted: 09:46am 16 Mar 2024
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The new ESP32-S3-PICO-1 looks very interesting with its internal 8M Octal PSRAM option
Edited 2024-03-16 19:48 by knivd
 
matherp
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Posted: 09:58am 16 Mar 2024
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I've played with it but the issue is that the PSRAM and the external flash which holds the program share the same SPI bus. This means that the effective bandwidth from the PSRAM is limited and can be conflicted. The various commercial demos tend to have very low refresh rates for the displays - in one case just 12FPS. If you use a display small enough to keep the framebuffer in internal RAM then it can work very well but the PSRAM isn't the panacea that it, at first, appears
 
knivd

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Posted: 10:02am 16 Mar 2024
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Yes, in that sense all ESP32xxx products are the same - SPI bus shared across all critical sub-systems. This one is interesting in with its level of integration, which translates into space saved on board
Edited 2024-03-16 20:03 by knivd
 
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