ESP32 S3 MINI, straping gpio18?

beckmx
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ESP32 S3 MINI, straping gpio18?

Postby beckmx » Fri Sep 15, 2023 5:11 am

Hello guys, I recently designed a custom pcb board for the esp32s3 mini, I have the basics from what i can see, but i noticed in the devkit schematic design there is a pull up resistor on gpio18, I looked in the datasheet but couldnt find anything related, I found a similar situation with the esp32_c3 that needed a pullup on gpio8, is this also the same for the esp32_s3_mini gpio18?

Greetings!

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Re: ESP32 S3 MINI, straping gpio18?

Postby ESP_Sprite » Fri Sep 15, 2023 5:29 am

There's actually no pullup on that pin; note the Espressif schematic marks it as NC meaning there is a footprint for it on the PCB but no component should be fitted there. I'm unsure why they added that footprint.

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Re: ESP32 S3 MINI, straping gpio18?

Postby beckmx » Fri Sep 15, 2023 3:15 pm

I manually soldered my ESP32_s3_mini but I am not able to get any "serial" signal, if you have some minutes to check my schematic,do you see anything different in here?
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Schematic
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I am very familiar with esp32 but this model in particular is getting hard to make it work for me.

Thanx for your time :)

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Re: ESP32 S3 MINI, straping gpio18?

Postby ESP_Sprite » Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:58 pm

- Not sure if you populated U2 or U3, but a HT75xx is not powerful enough to power an ESP32.
- You need a proper RC network on the EN pin.
Generally, I'd suggest keeping to the hardware design guidelines.

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