<2>Ask Slashdot: What’s the Best All-Purpose RISC-V System on a Chip Family?
<3>Slashdot reader SysEngineer does embedded/IoT work, but “I want to pick a single system-on-a-chip architecture family and commit to it across multiple product lines — sensor nodes up through edge gateways… I’ve been on one platform for years and want to know what embedded engineers are actually running in production before I commit!”
<3>Their requirements include 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, and support for multi threads.
<3>Slashdot reader Gravis Zero is skeptical all the requirements can be met. “If you want embedded, you get embedded. If you want to run a big OS, you get one that will run a big OS.”
<3>But Slashdot reader SysEngineer believes “The obvious architecture candidates are ARM, STM, and RISC-V” — and specifically they want to hear