Renesas Electronics EK-RA8M1 RA8M1 Evaluation Kit

Renesas Electronics EK-RA8M1 RA8M1 Evaluation Kit enables users to effortlessly evaluate the features of the RA8M1 MCU Group and develop embedded systems applications. This evaluation kit uses Renesas’ Flexible Software Package (FSP) and e2 Studio IDE. Utilize rich onboard features and the user’s choice of popular ecosystem add-ons to bring big ideas to life.

Features

Ecosystem and system control access
- USB full-speed host and device
- Multiple 5V input sources
  - USB (debug, full-speed, high-speed)
  - External power supply
- SEGGER J-LinkTM onboard programmer and debugger
- Debug modes
  - Debug onboard (SWD) – via J-Link
  - Debug out (SWD) – via J-Link
  - Debug in (ETM, SWD & JTAG) – via J-Link, Arm Keil® ULINKTM, IAR I-jetTM, Renesas E2/E2 Lite, etc.
- User LEDs and buttons
  - Three user LEDs (red, blue, green)
  - Power LED (white) indicating the availability of regulated power
  - Debug LED (yellow) indicating the debug connection
  - Two user buttons
  - One reset button
- The five most popular ecosystem expansions
  - MikroElektronika™ mikroBUS connector
  - SparkFun® Qwiic® connector
  - Two SeeedGrove® system (I2C and analog) connectors
  - Two Digilent Pmod™ (SPI and UART) connectors
  - Arduino™ (Uno R3) connector
- MCU boot configuration

Special feature access
- Ethernet
- USB high-speed host and device
- 64MB external octo-SPI Flash
- CAN FD PHY
MCU native pin access
- R7FA8M1AHECBD MCU
- 480MHz, Arm® Cortex®-M85 core
- 2MB code Flash, 1MB SRAM
- 224 pins, BGA package
- Native pin access
- MCU and USB current measurement
- DC/DC mode configuration

Kit Contents

EK-RA8M1 board
Micro USB device cable (Type-A male to micro-B male)

Micro USB host cable (Type-A male to micro-B male)
Ethernet patch cable

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Renesas Electronics EK-RA8M1 RA8M1 Evaluation Kit

Features

Kit Contents

Board Layout

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