Hi Bas,
thanks for sharing this module. Looks very interesting and will
definitely get some into my hands. :-)
Best, Thomas
On 1 Sep 2016, at 12:15 CEST(+0200), Bas Stottelaar wrote:
Hi all,
A few weeks ago, it was announced [1] that the RTL8710 by Realtek
could be
a decent alternative to the ESP8266. I ordered two RTL8710's to see
what I
could do with it (+/- $3.00 each)
Compared to the ESP8266, the RTL8710 is a Cortex M3 running at 80MHz.
It
contains a bootloader/drivers in the ROM section, and an integrated
SPI
flash (448KB) for running user code. It has support for WiFi and
crypto
accelerators. Via JTAG, the chip can be programmed. So far this chip
seems
to belong to the Ameba family, which is a (Chinese?) IoT platform [2].
There is not much information available, but someone [3] managed to
create
a very basic bare-metal environment with support for flashing. I used
that
as a starting point to see if I could get RIOT-OS running [4]. Yes it
(somewhat) works, but it is very hacky without vendor headers :-)
Kind regards,
Bas
[1]
http://hackaday.com/2016/07/28/new-chip-alert-rtl8710-a-cheaper-esp8266-competitor/
[2] http://www.amebaiot.com
[3] https://bitbucket.org/rebane
[4] https://github.com/basilfx/RIOT/tree/feature/rtl8710
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