<font size=6><B>RA Series 32-bit MCUs</B></font>

Introduction

This page is for the Renesas RA family of MCUs. The main goal is to make the information about RA MCUs friendly, easy to access for embedded developers.

The links below can be used to get familiar with Renesas RA MCUs. 

• RA Family of Arm® Cortex®-M based MCUs

Getting Started with RA

Here are the resources for RA MCUs on Renesas GitHub site.

• Flexible Software Package (FPS)
• Example Projects (EPs)
• Application Project (APs) 

Other resources on Renesas Website.  Links below are pre-configured searches.  You can modify them as needed.  

• User Manuals
• Boards & Kits
• Tools

e2studio is the Renesas supported IDE. You can also use EWARM and Keil IDEs.  Supported toolchains are Arm GNU Toolchain, LLVM Embedded Toolchain for Arm, IAR Compiler, and Arm Compiler.  

Each FSP version and supported tools are available from the Releases page.  Bundled platform installers are available at the bottom of each FSP version under Assets section.   

Boards

RA series boards are available here.  Each board has its landing page and most have the following information. 

• Board Quick Start Guide
• Board User's Manual
• Board Design Package 

IBIS models can be found here. 

Your First RA Project

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Tips and Tricks

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Run-time SPI configuration

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Debugger connectivity with TrustZone devices

Placeholder for serial programming interface requirements to configure TrustZone IDAU registers 

Bugs and Workarounds

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RA is great!!