Chapter 3. ESP32-S2 Hardware Reference
Feature
ESP32 Series
DAC
Two 8-bit channels
Timers
Four 64-bit general-purpose
timers, and three watchdog
timers
Temperature
✖
sensor
Touch sensor
10
Hall sensor
1
GPIO
34
SPI
4
LCD
inter-
1
face
UART
3
I2C
2
I2S
2, can be configured to op-
erate with 8/16/32/40/48-bit
resolution as an input or out-
put channel.
Camera
1
interface
DMA
Dedicated DMA to UART,
SPI,
I2S,
SD/MMC host, EMAC, BT,
and Wi-Fi
RMT
8 channels
Pulse
8 channels
counter
LED PWM
16 channels
MCPWM
2, six PWM outputs
USB OTG
✖
TWAI®
1
controller
(compatible
with
ISO
11898-1)
SD/SDIO/MMC
1
host
con-
troller
SDIO slave
1
controller
Ethernet
1
MAC
ULP
ULP FSM
Debug Assist
✖
Security
✓ ✓ ✓
Secure boot
✓ ✓ ✓
Flash
en-
cryption
Espressif Systems
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ESP32-S2 Series
Two 8-bit channels
Four 64-bit general-purpose
timers, and three watchdog
timers
1
14
✖
43
4 with more modes, compared
with ESP32
1
1
2
2
1, can be configured to oper-
ate with 8/16/24/32/48/64-bit
resolution as an input or out-
put channel.
1
Dedicated DMA to UART,
SDIO
slave,
SPI, AES, SHA, I2S, and
ADC Controller
4 channels
ured to TX/RX channels
4 channels
8 channels
✖
1
1
✖
✖
✖
PicoRV32 core with 8 KB
SRAM, ULP FSM with more
instructions
✖
✓ ✓ ✓ Faster and safer, compared
with ESP32
✓ ✓ ✓ Support for PSRAM en-
cryption.
with ESP32
1250
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ESP32-C3 Series
✖
Two 54-bit general-purpose
timers, and three watchdog
timers
1
✖
✖
22
3
✖
1
2
1
1, can be configured to oper-
ate with 8/16/24/32-bit reso-
lution as an input or output
channel.
✖
General-purpose, 3 TX chan-
nels, 3 RX channels
1
, can be config-
4 channels
RX channels
1
✖
1
6 channels
✖
✖
1
✖
✖
✖
✖
1
✓ ✓ ✓ Faster and safer, compared
with ESP32
✓ ✓ ✓
Safer, compared
ESP32
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2
, 2 TX channels, 2
2
Safer, compared with
Release v4.4
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