<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

First RA Project

 Steps below are for creating a simple Blinky project with Renesas supported tools.  e2studio is the Renesas supported IDE. You can also use EWARM and Keil IDEs.   Supported  Supported toolchains are Arm GNU Toolchain, LLVM Embedded Toolchain for Arm, IAR Compiler, and Arm Compiler.    

• Download the latest FSP platform installer from here for e2studio for Windows.  It includes Arm GNU and LLVM toolchains.  

Official Software and Documentation

These are the currently supported Software packages for the RZA1 and RZA2M. The

• RZ/A2M FreeRTOS™ Software Package
• RZ/A1LU FreeRTOS™ Software Package
• RZ/A1H FreeRTOS™ Software Package
• Microsoft Azure RZA Software Package

Renesas Supported Development Environments

• Renesas e2studio
• RZA1 Smart Configurator
  • NOTE: The RZA1 is not supported on the Smart Configurator found in the Renesas e2studio IDE.
  • This Smart Conjugator is a standalone application
  • Hardware Pin Configuration is supported
  • Code Generation not supported

RZA GUI Platforms

• Microsoft Azure GUIX demos
• TES Guiliani 　
  • License Support Page
• Crank contact Crank for RZA demos
• MicroEJ contact MicroEJ for RZA Java demos
• Tara Embedded Wizard contact Tara for RZA demos

RZA Bootloaders

Below are links to Source code for the RZ/A bootloaders and firmware update. These are reference code that was designed for the Renesas RZ/A EVKs. Included below are links to porting documentation.

RZA1

• RZ/A1 Bootloader
  • RZ/A1H Group Example of Booting from Serial Flash Memory doc and Source Code
  • RZ/A1LU QSPI Flash Boot Loader doc and Source Code
  • RZ/A1LU Group Example of Booting from Serial Flash Memory doc and Source Code
• RZA firmware update
  • The RZA1 does not have Firmware Update reference code.
  • Refer to the RZA2M Firmware Update for Serial Flash Driver to port to the RZA1.

RZA2M

• RZ/A2M Group Example of booting from OctaFlash™ using SPI multi I/O bus controller
  • Octo Flash doc, Source Code
  • Serial Flash doc, Source Code
  • Hyper Flash doc, Source Code
• RZA2M Firmware update ( rza2m_fw_update_sample_freertos_gcc.zip )
  • Code and documentation is in the "RZ/A2M Group RZ/A2M Simple Applications Package"

Porting Guides

RZ/A1

• RZ/A1 Azure Porting Guide Wiki

Articles and Whitepapers

• RZ/A2M: Improve Machine Vision up to 20 times with Renesas DRP!
• RZ/A2M DRP realizes fast detection of 2D barcode code type Sample Code
• RZ/A2M DRP realizes efficient mask face detection Sample Code

Topics

FAQ

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.