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 (FSP)
• 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
• IBIS Models

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 

Your First RA Project

FAQs

RA FAQs page page contains many useful information and how to notes on everything RA.  We update the page regularly so come and check it often.   

Known Issues and Workarounds

Feedback

You can use below link to provide feedback.  Here is the process:

Microcontroller Customer Portal

1. Login your OJF account
2. Create a TASK ticket (same as before)
3. Fillin Summary and Description fields (same as before)
   1. Provide  a detailed description
   2. Copy heading links from the Table of Contents in each page and paste it in your Description (this is important so we can locate your feedback on Renesas Wiki)
4. Select "Documentation" from the Components pulldown
5. Select "RENESAS WIKI" from the Product pulldown
6. Select your region from the Region supporting downtown (same as before) 
7. Submit your OFJ ticket

If you do not have access to Microcontrollers Customer Portal, please contact your local FAE to discuss the issue.  FAE may be able to help you and resolve it.  If not, your local FAE can file a ticket for you.   

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RA Specific Topics

Note that detailed topics can be discussed in their own pages for easy navigation.  

RA8 TrustZone

CM4 Specific Notes