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10 changes: 5 additions & 5 deletions ...hardware/10.mega/boards/giga-r1-wifi/tutorials/giga-dual-core/giga-dual-core.md
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Expand Up @@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ The M4 supports:

The M4 does **not** support:
- Wi-Fi®
- Serial communication\*
- [Arduino Cloud](https://app.arduino.cc) sketches.
- [Arduino Cloud](https://app.arduino.cc) sketches
- Serial over USB\*

***\*Serial Communication from the M4 can be enabled by setting up an RPC that allows the M4 & M7 cores to communicate. Using `RPC.print()` (M4) and `RPC.read()` (M7) helps achieve this. See [RPC Serial Example](#rpc-serial).***
***\*Serial communication over USB on the M4 can be enabled only by setting up an RPC that allows the M4 & M7 cores to communicate. Using `RPC.print()` (M4) and `RPC.read()` (M7) helps achieve this. See [RPC Serial Example](#rpc-serial).***

### Boot / Disable M4

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Some essential things to consider when programming the cores are:
- You need to [partition the memory](#partitioning-the-flash-memory), allocating flash memory to the M4 core.
- You need to select the [target core](#target-core), which is either **Main Core** or **M4 Co-processor**.
- The M4 has no serial communication enabled, here we need to use RPC (see [RPC Serial example](#rpc-serial)).
- The M4 does not *directly* support serial over USB. To enable it, we need to use RPC (see [RPC Serial example](#rpc-serial)).

When writing multiple sketches, there are some things to consider to make your development experience easier:
- Name your sketches with either `_M4` or `_M7` suffix or prefix. This will make it easier if the code is intended to be shared with others.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ That covered most of the `msgpackrpc` library's API and use cases. For a complet

In this section, you will find a series of examples that is based on the `RPC` library.

### RPC Serial
### USB Serial Using RPC

The `Serial.print()` command only works on the **M7 core**. In order to print values on the **M4**, we need to:
- Use `RPC.println()` on the M4. This will print the values to the RPC1 stream.
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