scholarly journals Analysis and Optimization of DC Supply Range for the ESP32 Development Board

Author(s):  
Joshua Kim

<div><p>ESP32 is becoming a popular and potential game-changer in the IoT industry. Once a code completed, to take off without a USB power, questions rise about powering it; What’s the feasible external voltage range? What’s the current? Which cell battery? And so on. These questions cannot be quickly resolved by only skimming datasheets.</p><p><br></p><p>This paper went over to clarify the obscure information about the DC supply range for the ESP32 development board, especially ESP32-DevKitC V4. The investigation, calculation, experiments, and LTspice simulation disclosed the result. Starting from getting relevance facts from datasheets of essential components on the board, calculated thermal conditions of the heated element, experimented to confirm the deliberate and get empirical data while code running including GPIO and WiFi, and ended with simulation ensure the data.</p><p><br></p><p>This paper concludes the following result points. The minimum supply voltage is 3.6 V to run an ESP32 module. The supply voltage should be under 10 V for both input capacitor rated voltage and LDO junction temperature rating. The thermal restriction was calculated at an ambient temperature of 25 °C and tried and tested. For a more harsh environment, this way could derate the upper limit voltage. An external power should supply current well over average 100 mA, a good 1 A. In terms of battery, this range reassures that an ESP32 can run with a single cell LiPo. Regarding the USB, both the high power and low power port can supply sufficiently. While an external supply being no less than 5.2 V, both the USB and external sources could work simultaneously.</p></div><div><br></div>

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Kim

<div><p>ESP32 is becoming a popular and potential game-changer in the IoT industry. Once a code completed, to take off without a USB power, questions rise about powering it; What’s the feasible external voltage range? What’s the current? Which cell battery? And so on. These questions cannot be quickly resolved by only skimming datasheets.</p><p><br></p><p>This paper went over to clarify the obscure information about the DC supply range for the ESP32 development board, especially ESP32-DevKitC V4. The investigation, calculation, experiments, and LTspice simulation disclosed the result. Starting from getting relevance facts from datasheets of essential components on the board, calculated thermal conditions of the heated element, experimented to confirm the deliberate and get empirical data while code running including GPIO and WiFi, and ended with simulation ensure the data.</p><p><br></p><p>This paper concludes the following result points. The minimum supply voltage is 3.6 V to run an ESP32 module. The supply voltage should be under 10 V for both input capacitor rated voltage and LDO junction temperature rating. The thermal restriction was calculated at an ambient temperature of 25 °C and tried and tested. For a more harsh environment, this way could derate the upper limit voltage. An external power should supply current well over average 100 mA, a good 1 A. In terms of battery, this range reassures that an ESP32 can run with a single cell LiPo. Regarding the USB, both the high power and low power port can supply sufficiently. While an external supply being no less than 5.2 V, both the USB and external sources could work simultaneously.</p></div><div><br></div>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Kim

<div>ESP32 is becoming a popular and potential game-changer in the IoT industry. Once a code completed, to take off out of a USB power, questions rise about powering it. What’s the feasible external voltage range? What’s the current? Which cell battery? And so on. These questions cannot be easily resolved by only skimming datasheets.</div><div><br></div><div>This paper went over to clarify the obscure information about the DC supply range for the ESP32 development board, especially ESP32-DevKitC V4. The results were disclosed through investigation, calculation, experiments, and LTspice simulation. Starting from getting relevance facts from datasheets of essential components on the board, calculated thermal conditions of heated component, experimented to confirm the calculated and get practical data while code running including GPIO and WiFi, and ended with simulation to confirm the data.</div><div><br></div><div>This paper concludes the following result points. The minimum supply voltage is 3.6 V to run an ESP32 module. The supply voltage should be under 10 V for both input capacitor rated voltage and LDO junction temperature rating. The thermal restriction was calculated at an ambient temperature of 25 °C and tried and tested. For a more harsh environment, the upper limit voltage could be derated in this way. An external power should be able to supply current well over average 100 mA; a good 1 A. In terms of battery, this range reassures that an ESP32 can run with a single cell LiPo. Regarding the USB, both the high power and low power port can supply sufficiently. While an external supply being no less than 5.2 V, both the USB and external sources could work simultaneously.</div><div><br></div>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Kim

<div>ESP32 is becoming a popular and potential game-changer in the IoT industry. Once a code completed, to takeoff</div><div>out of a USB power, questions rise about powering it. What’s the feasible external voltage range? What’s the</div><div>current? Which cell battery? And so on. These questions cannot be easily resolved by only skimming datasheets.</div><div><br></div><div>This paper went over to clarify the obscure information about the DC supply range for the ESP32 development</div><div>board, especially ESP32-DevKitC V4. The results were disclosed through investigation, calculation, experiments,</div><div>and LTspice simulation. Starting from getting relevance facts from datasheets of essential components on the board,</div><div>calculated thermal conditions of heated component, experimented to confirm the calculated and get practical data</div><div>while code running including GPIO and WiFi, and ended with simulation to confirm the data.</div><div><br></div><div>This paper concludes the following result points. The minimum supply voltage is 3.6 V to run an ESP32 module.</div><div>The supply voltage should be under 10 V for both input capacitor rated voltage and LDO junction temperature</div><div>rating. The thermal restriction was calculated at an ambient temperature of 25 °C and tried and tested. For a more</div><div>harsh environment, the upper limit voltage could be derated in this way. An external power should be able to</div><div>supply current well over average 100 mA; a good 1 A. In terms of battery, this range reassures that an ESP32 can</div><div>run with a single cell LiPo. Regarding the USB, both the high power and low power port can supply sufficiently.</div><div>While an external supply being no less than 5.2 V, both the USB and external sources could work simultaneously.</div><div><br></div>


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Xue-Chun Ou ◽  
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Ying-Qian Ma ◽  
...  

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Author(s):  
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David Kim ◽  
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This paper presents a fast-switching Transmit/Receive (T/R) Single-Pole-Double-Throw (SPDT) Radio Frequency (RF) switch. Thorough analyses have been conducted to choose the optimum number of stacks, transistor sizes, gate and body voltages, to satisfy the required specifications. This switch applies six stacks of series and shunt transistors as big as 3.9 mm/160 nm and 0.75 mm/160 nm, respectively. A negative charge pump and a voltage booster generate the negative and boosted control voltages to improve the harmonics and to keep Inter-Modulation Distortion (IMD) performance of the switch over 100 dBc. A Low Drop-Out (LDO) regulator limits the boosted voltage in Absolute Maximum Rating (AMR) conditions and improves the switch performance for Process, Voltage and Temperature (PVT) variations. To reduce the size, a dense custom-made capacitor consisting of different types of capacitors has been presented where they have been placed over each other in layout considering the Design Rule Checks (DRC) and applied in negative charge pump, voltage booster and LDO. This switch has been fabricated and tested in a 90 nm Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) process. The second and third IMD for all specified blockers remain over 100 dBc and the switching time as fast as 150 ns has been achieved. The Insertion Loss (IL) and isolation at 2.7 GHz are −0.17 dB and −33 dB, respectively. This design consumes 145 uA from supply voltage range of 1.65 V to 1.95 V and occupies 440 × 472 µm2 of die area.


2020 ◽  
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Antonio José Sobrinho De Sousa ◽  
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...  

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