Renesas Electronics RA8D1 Evaluation Kit

Renesas Electronics RA8D1 Evaluation Kit is designed to evaluate the RA8D1 Arm^® Cortex^®-M85 MCUs. This evaluation kit operates at a frequency of 480MHz and in the 1.68V to 3.6V range. The kit consists of three boards: the EK-RA8D1 board featuring the RA8D1 MCU with an on-chip graphics LCD controller, a MIPI graphics expansion board featuring a 4.3″ TFT color LCD with capacitive touch overlay, and a camera expansion board featuring a 3M pixels CMOS image sensor. Typical applications include industrial HMI, security access panels, IoT gateways/hubs, home automation products, security cameras, voice AI, vision AI, and thermostats.

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-Link™ on-board programmer and debugger
- Debug modes
  - Debug onboard (SWD) via J-Link
  - Debug out (SWD) via J-Link
  - Debug in (ETM, SWD, and JTAG) via J-Link, Arm Keil® ULINK™, IAR I-jet™, Renesas E2/E2 Lite, etc.
- User LEDs and buttons
  - 3x user LEDs (red, blue, green)
  - Power LED (white) indicating the availability of regulated power
  - Debug LED (yellow) indicating the debug connection
  - 2x user buttons
  - 1x reset button
- Popular ecosystem expansions
  - MikroElektronika™ mikroBUS connector
  - SparkFun® Qwiic® connectors (may not be populated)
  - 2x SeeedGrove® system (I²C and analog) connectors (may not be populated)
  - 2x Digilent Pmod™ (SPI and UART) connectors
  - Arduino™ (Uno R3) connector
- MCU boot configuration

Special feature access
- MIPI DSI and parallel graphics expansion ports
- Camera expansion port
- Ethernet
- USB high-speed host and device
- 64MB SDRAM
- 64MB external Octo-SPI Flash
MCU native pin access
- R7FA8D1BHECBD MCU
- 480MHz, Arm Cortex-M85 core
- 2MB Code Flash, 1MB SRAM
- 224-pin, BGA package
- Native pin access
- DC/DC mode configuration
MIPI graphics expansion board
- 4.5″ backlit TFT display, 16.7M display colors
- 480×854 pixels resolution
- 2-lane MIPI interface
- Capacitive touch overlay (I²C)
Camera expansion board
- Off-the-shelf Arducam CMOS OV3640 camera module
- 0.25″ 3.1 Megapixel image sensor
- Up to 15fps in QXGA (2048×1536 pixels) resolution
1.68V to 3.6V operating voltage range

Applications

Industrial HMI
Security access panels
IoT gateways/hubs
Home automation products
Thermostats

Small appliances with displays
Smart appliances
Security cameras
Voice AI
Vision AI

Kit Contents

EK-RA8D1 board
MIPI graphics expansion board
Camera expansion 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
Mounting hardware

COMPANY

Renesas Electronics RA8D1 Evaluation Kit

Features

Applications

Kit Contents

EK-RA8D1 Overview

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