| .. _ek_ra4m3: |
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| RA4M3 Evaluation Kit |
| #################### |
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| Overview |
| ******** |
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| The Renesas RA4M3 group of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) uses the high-performance |
| Arm® Cortex®-M33 core with TrustZone. In concert with the secure crypto engine, it |
| offers secure element functionality. The RA4M3 is built on a highly efficient 40nm |
| process, built on FreeRTOS—and is expandable to use other RTOSes and middleware. |
| The RA4M3 is suitable for IoT applications requiring vast communication options, future |
| proof security, large embedded RAM, and low active power consumption down to 119µA/MHz |
| running the CoreMark® algorithm from Flash. |
| |
| The MCU in this series incorporates a high-performance Arm Cortex®-M33 core running up to |
| 100 MHz with the following features: |
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| **MCU Native Pin Access** |
| - R7FA4M3AF3CFB |
| - 100-pin LQFP package |
| - 100 MHz Arm® Cortex®-M33 core |
| - 1 MB Code Flash, 128 KB SRAM |
| - 144 pins, LQFP package |
| - Native pin access through 4 x 40-pin male headers |
| - MCU and USB current measurement points for precision current consumption measurement |
| - Multiple clock sources - RA MCU oscillator and sub-clock oscillator crystals, providing precision |
| 24.000 MHz and 32,768 Hz reference clock. Additional low-precision clocks are available internal to the |
| RA MCU |
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| **System Control and Ecosystem Access** |
| - USB Full Speed Host and Device (micro AB connector) |
| - Three 5 V input sources |
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| - USB (Debug, Full Speed) |
| - External power supply (using surface mount clamp test points and power input vias) |
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| Three Debug modes |
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| - Debug on-board (SWD) |
| - Debug in (ETM, SWD, and JTAG) |
| - Debug out (SWD) |
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| User LEDs and buttons |
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| - 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 |
| |
| - Five most popular ecosystems expansions |
| |
| - 2 Seeed Grove® system (I2C/Analog) connectors |
| - SparkFun® Qwiic® connector |
| - 2 Digilent PmodTM (SPI and UART) connectors |
| - ArduinoTM (Uno R3) connector |
| - MikroElektronikaTM mikroBUS connector |
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| - MCU boot configuration jumper |
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| **Special Feature Access** |
| - 32 MB (256 Mb) External Quad-SPI Flash |
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| .. figure:: ek_ra4m3.webp |
| :align: center |
| :alt: RA4M3 Evaluation Kit |
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| EK-RA4M3 Board Functional Area Definitions (Credit: Renesas Electronics Corporation) |
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| Hardware |
| ******** |
| Detail Hardware feature for the RA4M3 MCU group can be found at `RA4M3 Group User's Manual Hardware`_ |
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| .. figure:: ra4m3_block_diagram.webp |
| :width: 442px |
| :align: center |
| :alt: RA4M3 MCU group feature |
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| RA4M3 Block diagram (Credit: Renesas Electronics Corporation) |
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| Detail Hardware feature for the EK-RA4M3 MCU can be found at `EK-RA4M3 - User's Manual`_ |
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| Supported Features |
| ================== |
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| The below features are currently supported on Zephyr OS for EK-RA4M3 board: |
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| +-----------+------------+----------------------+ |
| | Interface | Controller | Driver/Component | |
| +===========+============+======================+ |
| | GPIO | on-chip | gpio | |
| +-----------+------------+----------------------+ |
| | MPU | on-chip | arch/arm | |
| +-----------+------------+----------------------+ |
| | NVIC | on-chip | arch/arm | |
| +-----------+------------+----------------------+ |
| | UART | on-chip | serial | |
| +-----------+------------+----------------------+ |
| | CLOCK | on-chip | clock control | |
| +-----------+------------+----------------------+ |
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| Other hardware features are currently not supported by the port. |
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| Programming and Debugging |
| ************************* |
| |
| Applications for the ``ek_ra4m3`` board target configuration can be |
| built, flashed, and debugged in the usual way. See |
| :ref:`build_an_application` and :ref:`application_run` for more details on |
| building and running. |
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| Flashing |
| ======== |
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| Program can be flashed to EK-RA4M3 via the on-board SEGGER J-Link debugger. |
| SEGGER J-link's drivers are avaialbe at https://www.segger.com/downloads/jlink/ |
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| To flash the program to board |
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| 1. Connect to J-Link OB via USB port to host PC |
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| 2. Make sure J-Link OB jumper is in default configuration as describe in `EK-RA4M3 - User's Manual`_ |
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| 3. Execute west command |
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| .. code-block:: console |
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| west flash -r jlink |
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| Debugging |
| ========= |
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| You can use Segger Ozone (`Segger Ozone Download`_) for a visual debug interface |
| |
| Once downloaded and installed, open Segger Ozone and configure the debug project |
| like so: |
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| * Target Device: R7FA4M3AD |
| * Target Interface: SWD |
| * Target Interface Speed: 4 MHz |
| * Host Interface: USB |
| * Program File: <path/to/your/build/zephyr.elf> |
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| **Note:** It's verified that we can debug OK on Segger Ozone v3.30d so please use this or later |
| version of Segger Ozone |
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| References |
| ********** |
| - `EK-RA4M3 Website`_ |
| - `RA4M3 MCU group Website`_ |
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| .. _EK-RA4M3 Website: |
| https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/microcontrollers-microprocessors/ra-cortex-m-mcus/ek-ra4m3-evaluation-kit-ra4m3-mcu-group |
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| .. _RA4M3 MCU group Website: |
| https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/microcontrollers-microprocessors/ra-cortex-m-mcus/ra4m3-100mhz-arm-cortex-m33-trustzone-high-integration-rich-connectivity |
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| .. _EK-RA4M3 - User's Manual: |
| https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/mat/ek-ra4m3-v1-users-manual |
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| .. _RA4M3 Group User's Manual Hardware: |
| https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/man/ra4m3-group-users-manual-hardware |
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| .. _Segger Ozone Download: |
| https://www.segger.com/downloads/jlink#Ozone |
