Renesas EK-RA6M4 Evaluation Kit - Part 1

The Renesas EK-RA6M4 evaluation kit features a Renesas RA6M4 microcontroller based on an Arm® Cortex®-M33 Core. This video is the first in a series of 3 that will look at the kit features (part 1), software development tools (part 2) and a mini real-world application (part 3) where we connect up some sensors to our kit and see where that takes us.

Kit Features

MCU Native Pin Access

• R7FA6M4AF3CFB MCU
• 200MHz, Arm Cortex®-M33 core
• 1MB Code Flash, 256kB SRAM
• 144 pins, LQFP package
• Native pin access through 4x 40-pin male headers
• MCU and USB current measurement points

Ecosystem & System Control Access

• USB Full Speed host and device
• Multiple 5V input sources
• USB (Debug, Full Speed)
• External power supply
• SEGGER J-Link^TM on-board programmer and debugger
• User LEDs and buttons:
• Three user LEDs (red, blue, green)
• Power LED (white) indicating availability of regulated power
• Debug LED (yellow) indicating the debug connection
• Two user buttons
• One reset button
• MikroElektronika^TMmikroBUS connector
• SparkFun® Qwiic® connector
• 2x SeeedGrove® connectors
• 2xDigilent Pmod^TM connectors
• Arduino^TM (Uno R3) connector
• MCU boot configuration jumper

Special Feature Access

• Ethernet (RMII and PHY)
• 64MB External Octo-SPI Flash
• 32MB External Quad-SPI Flash

Kit Contents: EK-RA6M4 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.

Articles in this series:

• Part 1 - Hardware Features of the EK-RA6M4 evaluation kit
• Part 2 - Software support and trying out the preinstalled demo software for the kit
• Part 3 - A real-world application by trying out some sensors