Because the ESP32 can't wake quickly enough to keep up the the Anemometer, I decided to use a hardware counter to handle that task. The 2 chips I have that can do this are the PCF8593 from NXP and the S-35770 from Ablic. I set them both up to count anemometer rotations, so I could decide which on to use.

Both of these chips use  the I2C interface, and in single chip quantities the PCF8593 is $2.87 and the automotive spec'ed S-35770 is $5.83. So price is in favor of the NXP chip, unless you need the 125 C temperature range of the S-35700.

In operation, the S-35770 does a better job of counting. If the rise and falls times are not quick enough, the PCF8593 will have multiple counts during the slow edges, and, putting a low pass filter on the anemometer to debounce it can slow down the rise times enough to cause problems. The S-35770 has a Schmitt Trigger buffer in front of its counter, so it doesn't matter how close the transition times are, it will only generate one count.

The PCF8593 has pre-existing libraries that work, even though that library is for the PCF8583. You have to code up your own library for the S-35770, but it is very easy. The I2C interface to the S-35770 is weird and not really like most I2C implementations where you send a register address and then you read or write; they just kind of do their own thing. It's weird, but it is pretty straight-forward to code to.

The PCF8593 is in a bigger package, so it is easier to solder. In operation, the current use is nearly identical, with the PCF8593 drawing 11.3uA and the S-35770 drawing 9.9uA.

The biggest advantage to the PCF8593 is the fact that it is a real-time-clock with event counter functionality. In fact, that is the main reason I chose to use the S-35770 in this project. I now have some PCF8593s in my parts bin which I can use as a RTC or a counter, while the S-35770 is a one trick pony, so I better use them when all I need is a counter. If I were to use the PCF8593, I would probably put a Schmitt buffer in front of the input like a 74LVC1G17, to square up the rising edge, and fix the counting problem.