esp32 s3 and low noise amplifier (LNA)

nexus9
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esp32 s3 and low noise amplifier (LNA)

Postby nexus9 » Mon Jan 20, 2025 1:53 pm

Hello,

does anyone know if the esp32 s3 has a built in low noise amplifier (LNA) hardware like the esp32?

nexus9
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Re: esp32 s3 and low noise amplifier (LNA)

Postby nexus9 » Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:52 am

I see that no one knows.
I found this interesting thread https://github.com/krzychb/esp32-lna and wanted to test it on esp32s3.
Maybe someone has contact to the esp32s3 engineer?

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Re: esp32 s3 and low noise amplifier (LNA)

Postby MicroController » Wed Jan 29, 2025 1:02 pm

I don't actually know about the LNA on the -S3, but that's because I have never seen it documented anywhere, and, just like the Hall effect sensor, no hints or remnants of documentation either.
My bet is that Espressif physically removed these pieces from all the successors to the OG ESP32.

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Re: esp32 s3 and low noise amplifier (LNA)

Postby ESP_Sprite » Thu Jan 30, 2025 6:52 am

No LNA on any of out chips (at least for the adc). The original ESP32 technically does not have it anymore either, as in, it was barely supported and buggy in the first place so we removed it from the datasheet and while it may or may not still be on the silicon, we don't test it anymore so who knows what it does. The rest of the chips never had a LNA designed into it in the first place.

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Re: esp32 s3 and low noise amplifier (LNA)

Postby nexus9 » Sun Feb 02, 2025 2:52 pm

Thank you for your answer.
Its a pity that LNA couldnt be built into new versions of ESP32. This functionality allows for significant extent of the ESP32 applications without the need to expand the hardware (in my case thermocouple).

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