Submission + - RISC-V SOC? Looking for a SOC family to base all development on. 1
SysEngineer writes: I've been in embedded and IoT work for a long time and I'm at the point where I want to pick a single SoC architecture family and commit to it across multiple product lines — sensor nodes up through edge gateways.
My requirements: WiFi + BLE required, LoRaWAN a nice-to-have. Low power modes that actually work in the field, not just on the datasheet. Full peripheral set — SPI, I2C, UART, ADC, timers, CAN. A toolchain and runtime support, support multi threads. And the family needs to scale — cheap and small at the low end, capable of running Linux on the bigger variants.
The obvious architecture candidates are ARM, STM, and RISC-V. I've been on one platform for years and want to know what embedded engineers are actually running in production before I commit. I am want to hear about the RISC-V choices.
What would you standardize on today if you were starting fresh? And how does real-world toolchain and community support hold up compared to the marketing?
My requirements: WiFi + BLE required, LoRaWAN a nice-to-have. Low power modes that actually work in the field, not just on the datasheet. Full peripheral set — SPI, I2C, UART, ADC, timers, CAN. A toolchain and runtime support, support multi threads. And the family needs to scale — cheap and small at the low end, capable of running Linux on the bigger variants.
The obvious architecture candidates are ARM, STM, and RISC-V. I've been on one platform for years and want to know what embedded engineers are actually running in production before I commit. I am want to hear about the RISC-V choices.
What would you standardize on today if you were starting fresh? And how does real-world toolchain and community support hold up compared to the marketing?
