RA8P1 Evaluation Kit

Board Overview

RA8P1 Evaluation Kit

Name:

ek_ra8p1

Vendor:

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Architecture:

arm

SoC:

r7ka8p1kflcac

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Overview

The EK-RA8P1 is an Evaluation Kit for Renesas RA8P1 MCU Group which integrates multiple series of software-compatible Arm®-based 32-bit cores that share a common set of Renesas peripherals to facilitate design scalability and efficient platform-based product development.

The MCU in this series incorporates a high-performance Arm® Cortex®-M85 core running up to 1 GHz and Arm® Cortex®-M33 core running up to 250 MHz with the following features:

• Up to 1 MB MRAM

• 2 MB SRAM (256 KB of CM85 TCM RAM, 128 KB CM33 TCM RAM, 1664 KB of user SRAM)

• Arm® Ethos™-U55 NPU

• Octal Serial Peripheral Interface (OSPI)

• Layer 3 Ethernet Switch Module (ESWM), USBFS, USBHS, SD/MMC Host Interface

• Graphics LCD Controller (GLCDC)

• 2D Drawing Engine (DRW)

• MIPI DSI/CSI interface

• Analog peripherals

• Security and safety features

MCU Native Pin Access

• 1 GHz Arm Cortex-M85 and 250 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 based RA8P1 MCU in 289 pins, BGA package

• Native pin access through 2 x 20-pin, and 2 x 40-pin headers (no populated)

• Camera Expansion connector (present on the underside of the EK-RA8P1 board)

• 2-Lane MIPI Display connector (present on the underside of the EK-RA8P1 board)

• Parallel graphics display interface connector

• MCU current measurement points for precision current consumption measurement

• Multiple clock sources - RA8P1 MCU oscillator and sub-clock oscillator crystals, providing precision 24.000 MHz and 32,768 Hz reference clocks. Additional low precision clocks are available internal to the RA8P1 MCU

System Control and Ecosystem Access

• USB Full Speed Host and Device (USB-C connector)

• Four 5V input sources

  • USB (Debug, Full Speed, High Speed)

  • External power supply (using surface mount clamp test points and power input vias)

• Three Debug modes

  • Debug on-board (SWD and JTAG)

  • Debug in (ETM, SWD, SWO and JTAG)

  • Debug out (SWD, SWO, and JTAG)

• 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

  • Ethernet LEDs (amber, yellow, green)

  • Two User buttons

  • One Reset button

• Five most popular ecosystems expansions

  • Two Seeed Grove system (I2C/I3C/Analog) connectors (not populated)

  • One SparkFun Qwiic connector (not populated)

  • Two Digilent Pmod (SPI, UART and I2C) connectors

  • Arduino (Uno R3) connector

  • MikroElektronika mikroBUS connector (not populated)

• MCU boot configuration jumper

Special Feature Access

• Ethernet (RJ45 RGMII interface)

• USB High Speed Host and Device (USB-C connector)

• 512 Mb (64 MB) External Octo-SPI Flash (present in the MCU Native Pin Access area of the EK-RA8P1 board)

Hardware

Detailed hardware features can be found at:

• RA8P1 MCU: RA8P1 Group User’s Manual Hardware

• EK-RA8P1 board: EK-RA8P1 - User’s Manual

Supported Features

The ek_ra8p1 board supports the hardware features listed below.

on-chip / on-board

Feature integrated in the SoC / present on the board.

2 / 2

Number of instances that are enabled / disabled.
Click on the label to see the first instance of this feature in the board/SoC DTS files.

vnd,foo

Compatible string for the Devicetree binding matching the feature.
Click on the link to view the binding documentation.

ek_ra8p1

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r7ka8p1kflcac/cm33r7ka8p1kflcac/cm85

ek_ra8p1/r7ka8p1kflcac/cm33 target

Type	Location	Description	Compatible
CPU	on-chip	ARM Cortex-M33 CPU1	arm,cortex-m33
CAN	on-chip	Renesas RA CANFD controller global1	renesas,ra-canfd-global
	on-chip	Renesas RA CANFD controller2	renesas,ra-canfd
Clock control	on-chip	Renesas RA Clock Generation Circuit external clock configuration1	renesas,ra-cgc-external-clock
	on-chip	Generic fixed-rate clock provider3	fixed-clock
	on-chip	Renesas RA Sub-Clock1	renesas,ra-cgc-subclk
	on-chip	Renesas RA Clock Generation Circuit PLL Clock1 1	renesas,ra-cgc-pll
	on-chip	Renesas RA Clock Generation Circuit PLL Clock out line3 3	renesas,ra-cgc-pll-out
	on-chip	Renesas RA Clock Control node pclk block1	renesas,ra-cgc-pclk-block
	on-chip	Renesas RA Clock Control Peripheral Clock12 15	renesas,ra-cgc-pclk
	on-chip	Renesas RA External Bus Clock1	renesas,ra-cgc-busclk
Comparator	on-chip	Renesas RA ACMPHS (High-Speed Analog COMParator) Global1	renesas,ra-acmphs-global
	on-chip	Renesas RA ACMPHS (High-Speed Analog COMParator) Controller4	renesas,ra-acmphs
Counter	on-chip	Renesas RA AGT as Counter2	renesas,ra-agt-counter
Display	on-chip	Renesas Graphic LCD controller1	renesas,ra-glcdc
GPIO & Headers	on-chip	Renesas RA GPIO I/O Port14	renesas,ra-gpio-ioport
I2C	on-chip	Renesas RA I2C Master controller3	renesas,ra-iic
	on-chip	Renesas RA SCI-B I2C controller10	renesas,ra-i2c-sci-b
Interrupt controller	on-chip	ARMv8-M NVIC (Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller)1	arm,v8m-nvic
Memory controller	on-chip	Renesas RA SDRAM controller1	renesas,ra-sdram
MIPI-DSI	on-chip	Renesas RA MIPI DSI host1	renesas,ra-mipi-dsi
Miscellaneous	on-chip	Renesas RA SCI controller10	renesas,ra-sci
	on-chip	Renesas RA AGT2	renesas,ra-agt
	on-chip	Renesas RA ULPT2	renesas,ra-ulpt
	on-chip	Renesas RA External Interrupt32	renesas,ra-external-interrupt
MMU / MPU	on-chip	ARMv8-M MPU (Memory Protection Unit)1	arm,armv8m-mpu
MTD	on-chip	Flash node1	soc-nv-flash
Pin control	on-chip	Renesas RA Pin Controller1	renesas,ra-pinctrl-pfs
PWM	on-chip	Renesas RA Pulse Width Modulation14	renesas,ra-pwm
SDHC	on-chip	Renesas RA SDHC2	renesas,ra-sdhc
Serial controller	on-chip	Renesas RA SCI_B UART controller10	renesas,ra8-uart-sci-b
SPI	on-chip	Renesas RA8 SPI_B controller2	renesas,ra8-spi-b
SRAM	on-chip	Generic on-chip SRAM1	mmio-sram
Timer	on-chip	ARMv8-M System Tick1	arm,armv8m-systick
	on-chip	Renesas RA ULPT TIMER2	renesas,ra-ulpt-timer

ek_ra8p1/r7ka8p1kflcac/cm85 target

Type	Location	Description	Compatible
CPU	on-chip	ARM Cortex-M85 CPU1	arm,cortex-m85
CAN	on-chip	Renesas RA CANFD controller global1	renesas,ra-canfd-global
	on-chip	Renesas RA CANFD controller2	renesas,ra-canfd
Clock control	on-chip	Renesas RA Clock Generation Circuit external clock configuration1	renesas,ra-cgc-external-clock
	on-chip	Generic fixed-rate clock provider3	fixed-clock
	on-chip	Renesas RA Sub-Clock1	renesas,ra-cgc-subclk
	on-chip	Renesas RA Clock Generation Circuit PLL Clock2	renesas,ra-cgc-pll
	on-chip	Renesas RA Clock Generation Circuit PLL Clock out line6	renesas,ra-cgc-pll-out
	on-chip	Renesas RA Clock Control node pclk block1	renesas,ra-cgc-pclk-block
	on-chip	Renesas RA Clock Control Peripheral Clock15 12	renesas,ra-cgc-pclk
	on-chip	Renesas RA External Bus Clock1	renesas,ra-cgc-busclk
Comparator	on-chip	Renesas RA ACMPHS (High-Speed Analog COMParator) Global1	renesas,ra-acmphs-global
	on-chip	Renesas RA ACMPHS (High-Speed Analog COMParator) Controller4	renesas,ra-acmphs
Counter	on-chip	Renesas RA AGT as Counter2	renesas,ra-agt-counter
Display	on-chip	Renesas Graphic LCD controller1	renesas,ra-glcdc
GPIO & Headers	on-chip	Renesas RA GPIO I/O Port10 4	renesas,ra-gpio-ioport
I2C	on-chip	Renesas RA I2C Master controller1 2	renesas,ra-iic
	on-chip	Renesas RA SCI-B I2C controller10	renesas,ra-i2c-sci-b
Input	on-board	Group of GPIO-bound input keys1	gpio-keys
Interrupt controller	on-chip	ARMv8.1-M NVIC (Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller)1	arm,v8.1m-nvic
LED	on-board	Group of GPIO-controlled LEDs1	gpio-leds
Memory controller	on-chip	Renesas RA SDRAM controller1	renesas,ra-sdram
MIPI-DSI	on-chip	Renesas RA MIPI DSI host1	renesas,ra-mipi-dsi
Miscellaneous	on-chip	Renesas RA SCI controller1 9	renesas,ra-sci
	on-chip	Renesas RA AGT2	renesas,ra-agt
	on-chip	Renesas RA ULPT2	renesas,ra-ulpt
	on-chip	Renesas RA External Interrupt2 30	renesas,ra-external-interrupt
MMU / MPU	on-chip	ARMv8.1-M MPU (Memory Protection Unit)1	arm,armv8.1m-mpu
MTD	on-chip	Flash node1	soc-nv-flash
Pin control	on-chip	Renesas RA Pin Controller1	renesas,ra-pinctrl-pfs
PWM	on-chip	Renesas RA Pulse Width Modulation1 13	renesas,ra-pwm
SDHC	on-chip	Renesas RA SDHC2	renesas,ra-sdhc
Serial controller	on-chip	Renesas RA SCI_B UART controller1 9	renesas,ra8-uart-sci-b
SPI	on-chip	Renesas RA8 SPI_B controller1 1	renesas,ra8-spi-b
SRAM	on-chip	Generic on-chip SRAM1	mmio-sram
Timer	on-chip	ARMv8.1-M System Tick1	arm,armv8.1m-systick
	on-chip	Renesas RA ULPT TIMER2	renesas,ra-ulpt-timer

Note

• Other hardware features are currently not supported by the port.

Programming and Debugging

Applications for the ek_ra8p1 board configuration can be built, flashed, and debugged in the usual way. See Building an Application and Run an Application for more details on building and running.

Here is an example for the Hello World application on CM85 core.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b ek_ra8p1/r7ka8p1kflcac/cm85 samples/hello_world
west flash

Open a serial terminal, reset the board (press the S3 button), and you should see the following message in the terminal:

***** Booting Zephyr OS v4.2.0-xxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx *****
Hello World! ek_ra8p1/r7ka8p1kflcac/cm85

Flashing

Program can be flashed to EK-RA8P1 via the on-board SEGGER J-Link debugger. SEGGER J-link’s drivers are available at https://www.segger.com/downloads/jlink/

To flash the program to board

1. Connect to J-Link OB via USB port to host PC

2. Make sure J-Link OB jumper is in default configuration as described in EK-RA8P1 - User’s Manual

3. Execute west command

   west flash -r jlink
   

References

• EK-RA8P1 Website

• RA8P1 MCU group Website