RA4L1 Evaluation Kit

Board Overview

RA4L1 Evaluation Kit

Name:

ek_ra4l1

Vendor:

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Architecture:

arm

SoC:

r7fa4l1bd4cfp

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Overview

The Renesas RA4L1 group of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) uses the high-performance Arm Cortex®-M33 core. Share a common set of Renesas peripherals to facilitate design scalability and efficient platform-based product development.

The MCU in this series incorporates a high-performance Arm Cortex®-M33 core running up to 80 MHz with the following features:

MCU Native Pin Access

• R7FA4L1BD4CFP MCU (referred to as RA MCU)

• 80 MHz, Arm® Cortex®-M33 core

• 512 KB Code Flash, 64 KB SRAM

• 100-pin LQFP package

System Control and Ecosystem Access

• USB Full Speed Host and Device (USB-C connector)

• Three 5 V input sources

  • USB (Debug, Full Speed)

  • External power supply (using surface mount clamp test points and power input vias)

• Three Debug modes

  • Debug on-board (SWD)

  • Debug in (SWD)

  • Debug out (SWD, SW0 and JTAG)

• User LEDs and buttons

  • 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

  • 1 Seeed Grove® system (I3C) connector

  • 1 Seeed Grove® system (I2C/Analog) connector

  • 2 Digilent PmodTM (SPI, UART and I2C) connectors

  • ArduinoTM (Uno R3) connector

  • MikroElektronikaTM mikroBUS connector

• MCU boot configuration jumper

Special Feature Access

• 256 Mb (32 MB) External QUAD-SPI Flash

• CAN FD (3-pin header)

• Segment LCD Board Interface (50-pin header)

Hardware

Detailed hardware features can be found at:

• RA4L1 MCU: RA4L1 Group User’s Manual Hardware

• EK-RA4L1 board: EK-RA4L1 - User’s Manual

Debug on-board:

• Connector Used: USB-C (J10)

Debug Modes	J6	J6-A	J8	J9	J29
Debug on-board	Open	Open	Jumper on pins 1-2	Open	Jumpers on pins 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8

Supported Features

The ek_ra4l1 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.

ek_ra4l1/r7fa4l1bd4cfp target

Type	Location	Description	Compatible
CPU	on-chip	ARM Cortex-M33 CPU1	arm,cortex-m33
ADC	on-chip	Renesas RA ADC node1	renesas,ra-adc
CAN	on-chip	Renesas RA CANFD controller global1	renesas,ra-canfd-global
	on-chip	Renesas RA CANFD controller1	renesas,ra-canfd
Clock control	on-chip	Renesas RA Clock Generation Circuit external clock configuration1	renesas,ra-cgc-external-clock
	on-chip	Generic fixed-rate clock provider3	fixed-clock
	on-chip	Renesas RA Sub-Clock1	renesas,ra-cgc-subclk
	on-chip	Renesas RA Clock Generation Circuit PLL Clock1	renesas,ra-cgc-pll
	on-chip	Renesas RA Clock Control node pclk block1	renesas,ra-cgc-pclk-block
	on-chip	Renesas RA Clock Control Peripheral Clock7 5	renesas,ra-cgc-pclk
DAC	on-chip	Renesas RA DAC Controller Global1	renesas,ra-dac-global
	on-chip	Renesas RA DAC Controller1	renesas,ra-dac
GPIO & Headers	on-chip	Renesas RA GPIO I/O Port5 4	renesas,ra-gpio-ioport
I2C	on-chip	Renesas RA I2C Master controller1	renesas,ra-iic
Input	on-board	Group of GPIO-bound input keys1	gpio-keys
Interrupt controller	on-chip	ARMv8-M NVIC (Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller)1	arm,v8m-nvic
LED	on-board	Group of GPIO-controlled LEDs1	gpio-leds
Miscellaneous	on-chip	Renesas RA SCI controller1 5	renesas,ra-sci
	on-chip	Renesas RA External Interrupt2 14	renesas,ra-external-interrupt
MMU / MPU	on-chip	ARMv8-M MPU (Memory Protection Unit)1	arm,armv8m-mpu
MTD	on-chip	Flash memory binding of Renesas RA family2	renesas,ra-nv-flash
PHY	on-board	Simple GPIO controlled CAN transceiver1	can-transceiver-gpio
Pin control	on-chip	The Renesas RA pin controller is a node responsible for controlling pin function selection and pin properties, such as routing a SCI0 RXD to P6101	renesas,ra-pinctrl-pfs
PWM	on-chip	Renesas RA Pulse Width Modulation1 5	renesas,ra-pwm
Serial controller	on-chip	Renesas RA SCI UART controller1 5	renesas,ra-sci-uart
SPI	on-chip	Renesas RA SPI controller1	renesas,ra-spi
SRAM	on-chip	Generic on-chip SRAM description1	mmio-sram
Timer	on-chip	ARMv8-M System Tick1	arm,armv8m-systick
Watchdog	on-chip	Renesas RA Watchdog (wdt)1	renesas,ra-wdt

Programming and Debugging

Applications for the ek_ra4l1 board 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 EK-RA4L1 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 EK-RA4L1 - User’s Manual

3. Execute west command

west flash -r jlink

References

• EK-RA4L1 Website

• RA4L1 MCU group Website