ESP32-C5 Features

ESP32-C5 is Espressif’s first dual-band Wi-Fi 6 SoC integrating 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4 (LE) and the 802.15.4 protocol. ESP32-C5 achieves an industry-leading RF performance, with reliable security features and multiple memory resources for IoT products. It consists of a high-performance (HP) 32-bit RISC-V processor, which can be clocked up to 240 MHz, and a low-power (LP) 32-bit RISC-V processor, which can be clocked up to 20 MHz. It has a 384KB SRAM and works with external flash and PSRAM (up to 16 MB).

ESP32-C5 includes the following features:

  • 32-bit core RISC-V microcontroller with a clock speed of up to 240 MHz

  • 384 KB of internal SRAM

  • WiFi 802.11 ax 2.4GHz and 5GHz (dual-band)

  • Fully compatible with IEEE 802.11b/g/n/a/ac protocol

  • Bluetooth LE: Bluetooth 5.4 certified

  • Internal co-existence mechanism between Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to share the same antenna

  • IEEE 802.15.4 (Zigbee and Thread)

Digital interfaces:

  • 29x GPIOs

  • 2x UART

  • 1x Low-power (LP) UART

  • 1x General purpose SPI

  • 1x I2C

  • 1x Low-power (LP) I2C

  • 1x I2S

  • 1x Pulse counter

  • 1x USB Serial/JTAG controller

  • 2x TWAI controller, compatible with ISO 11898-1 (CAN Specification 2.0)

  • LED PWM controller, up to 6 channels

  • 1x Motor control PWM (MCPWM)

  • General DMA controller (GDMA), with 3 transmit channels and 3 receive channels

  • Event task matrix (ETM)

Analog interfaces:

  • 1x 12-bit SAR ADC, up to 6 channels

  • 1x temperature sensor

Timers:

  • 1x 52-bit system timer

  • 1x 54-bit general-purpose timers

  • 3x Watchdog timers

  • 1x Analog watchdog timer

Low Power:

  • Four power modes designed for typical scenarios: Active, Modem-sleep, Light-sleep, Deep-sleep

Security:

  • Secure boot

  • Flash encryption

  • 4-Kbit OTP, up to 1792 bits for users

  • Cryptographic hardware acceleration: (AES-128/256, ECC, HMAC, RSA, SHA, Digital signature, Hash)

  • Random number generator (RNG)

Low-Power CPU (LP CORE)

The ESP32-C5 SoC has two RISC-V cores: the High-Performance Core (HP CORE) and the Low-Power Core (LP CORE). The LP Core features ultra low power consumption, an interrupt controller, a debug module and a system bus interface for memory and peripheral access.

The LP Core is in sleep mode by default. It has two application scenarios:

  • Power insensitive scenario: When the High-Performance CPU (HP Core) is active, the LP Core can assist the HP CPU with some speed and efficiency-insensitive controls and computations.

  • Power sensitive scenario: When the HP CPU is in the power-down state to save power, the LP Core can be woken up to handle some external wake-up events.

The LP Core support is fully integrated with Sysbuild (System build). The user can enable the LP Core by adding the following configuration to the project:

CONFIG_ESP32_ULP_COPROC_ENABLED=y

See Low-Power CPU (LP CORE) folder as code reference.

For more information, check the ESP32-C5 Datasheet or the ESP32-C5 Technical Reference Manual.