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Microcontroller resource contention

What happens when several workloads on a small microcontroller compete for RAM, CPU cores and radio time, and how firmware designs bound that competition.

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Measure the six handoffs before you retune an ESP32-S3 wake word

A dev.to walkthrough of ESPHome voice satellites puts an ESP32-S3 node's perceived speed in the whole capture-to-playback path. It treats the platform's own RAM and BLE warning as a limit on what else that node can own.

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