ESP8266 WiFi UART Serial Module ESP-07

This ESP8266 IC based ESP-07 variant is a WiFi module which can give your Arduino or other electronic projects WiFi capabilities and can even be used on its own by reprogramming the ESP8266 MCU! 

Overview

The ESP8266 is a highly integrated chip designed for the needs of a new connected world and is the go to choice for IOT. It offers a complete and self-contained Wi-Fi networking solution, allowing it to either host the application or to offload all Wi-Fi networking functions from another application processor.

ESP8266 has powerful on-board processing and storage capabilities that allow it to be integrated with the sensors and other application specific devices through its GPIOs with minimal development up-front and minimal loading during runtime. Its high degree of on-chip integration allows for minimal external circuitry, and the entire solution, including front-end module, is designed to occupy minimal PCB area. The ESP8266 supports APSD for VoIP applications and Bluetooth co-existance interfaces, it contains a self-calibrated RF allowing it to work under all operating conditions, and requires no external RF parts.

There is an almost limitless fountain of information available for the ESP8266, all of which has been provided by amazing community support.

Additionally, the ESP8266 Basics Wiki covers all of the key differences between the various ESP8266 versions available, so be sure to take a look at this and see which is the ideal fit for your projects.

Features

• Standards Certification: FCC / CE / TELEC
• Wireless standards: 802.11 b / g / n
• Frequency range: 2.4GHz-2.5GHz (2400M-2483.5M)
• Data interface: UART / HSPI / I2C / I2S / Ir Remote Contorl GPIO / PWM
• Operating voltage: 3.0 ~ 3.6V (recommendation 3.3V)
• Working Current: Average: 80mA
• Operating temperature: -40 ° ~ 125 °

• Wi-Fi Direct (P2P), soft-AP
• Integrated TCP/IP protocol stack
• Integrated TR switch, balun, LNA, power amplifier and matching network
• Integrated PLLs, regulators, DCXO and power management units
• +19.5dBm output power in 802.11b mode
• Power down leakage current of <10µA
• Integrated low power 32-bit CPU could be used as application processor
• SDIO 1.1 / 2.0, SPI, UART
• STBC, 1×1 MIMO, 2×1 MIMO
• A-MPDU & A-MSDU aggregation & 0.4ms guard interval
• Wake up and transmit packets in < 2ms
• Standby power consumption of < 1.0mW (DTIM3)

What is this ESP8266

• It's a wireless SoC
• It has GPIO, I2C, ADC, SPI, PWM and some more
• It's running at 80MHz
• 64KBytes of instruction RAM
• 96KBytes of data RAM
• 64KBytes boot ROM
• It has a Winbond W25Q40BVNIG SPI flash
• It's a RISC architecture
• The core is a 106micro Diamond Standard core (LX3) made by Tensilica
• The ESP8266 chip is made by Espressif
• Modules bearing this chip are made by various manufacturers

Unbelievable amounts of information available at the ESP8266 community forum: http://www.esp8266.com/

ESP8266 Wiki: https://github.com/esp8266/esp8266-wiki/wiki

Getting started with the ESP8266: http://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2014/09/11/getting-started-with-esp8266/

Espressif Systems have their headquarters based in Shanghai Zhangjiang High-Tech Park, which is considered to be “China’s Silicon Valley”, where they produce low-power WiFi and Bluetooth SoC’s and IoT hardware and software.

Their vision is to enhance the world by leveraging modern technologies like IoT and wireless communications to manufacture products that are more versatile, adaptable and eco-friendly, with the aim of reducing the amount of waste and pollution that the world produces each year. So far, they have been able to reduce the consumption of electrical components by hundreds of thousands of resistors, capacitors, inductors, baluns, switches and power management chips, while reducing the amount of Printed Circuits Boards, or PCB’s, by more than 50,000 square meters.

Espressif is quickly becoming the leading manufacturer of IoT and wireless components, modules and devices that cut out the need for cabling and unnecessary electronics, which will not only result in a world that is cleaner and more environmentally sustainable, but also more adaptable and capable of moving towards the future of human technologies.