RA6E2 Fast Prototyping Board

Overview

The FPB-RA6E2, a Fast Prototyping Board for RA6E2 MCU Group, based on the 200 MHz Arm® Cortex®-M33 core with TrustZone, enables users to seamlessly evaluate the features of the RA6E2 MCU group and develop embedded systems applications using Flexible Software Package (FSP) and e2 studio IDE. The users can use rich on-board features along with their choice of popular ecosystems add-ons to bring their big ideas to life.

The key features of the FPB-RA6E2 board are categorized in three groups as follow:

MCU Native Pin Access

  • 200MHz Arm Cortex-M33 based RA6E2 MCU in 64 pins, LQFP package

  • 256 kB Code Flash, 40 kB SRAM

  • Native pin access through 2 x 32-pin male headers

  • MCU current measurement point for precision current consumption measurement

  • Multiple clock sources - RA6E2 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 RA6E2 MCU

System Control and Ecosystem Access

  • USB Full Speed Host and Device (micro-AB connector)

  • Two 5V input sources

    • USB (Debug, Full Speed)

    • External power supply (using 2-pin header)

  • On-board debugger (SWD)

  • User LEDs and buttons

    • Two User LEDs (green)

    • Power LED (green) indicating availability of regulated power

    • Debug/power LED (yellow) indicating power and the debug connection

    • One User button

    • One Reset button

  • Two popular ecosystem expansions

    • Two Digilent PmodTM (SPI, UART and I3C) connectors

    • Arduino (Uno R3) connectors

  • MCU boot configuration jumper

Hardware

Detailed hardware features for the RA6E2 MCU group can be found at RA6E2 Group User’s Manual Hardware

RA6E2 MCU group feature

RA6E2 Block diagram (Credit: Renesas Electronics Corporation)

Detailed hardware features for the FPB-RA6E2 MCU can be found at FPB-RA6E2 - User’s Manual

Supported Features

The fpb_ra6e2 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.

Programming and Debugging

The fpb_ra6e2 board supports the runners and associated west commands listed below.

flash debug

Applications for the fpb_ra6e2 board target 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.

Flashing

Program can be flashed to fpb-RA6E2 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 describe in FPB-RA6E2 - User’s Manual

  3. Execute west command

    west flash -r jlink

Debugging

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:

  • Target Device: R7FA6E2BB

  • Target Interface: SWD

  • Target Interface Speed: 4 MHz

  • Host Interface: USB

  • Program File: <path/to/your/build/zephyr.elf>

Note: It’s verified that we can debug OK on Segger Ozone v3.30d so please use this or later version of Segger Ozone

References