RA4E1 Fast Prototyping Board

Board Overview

RA4E1 Fast Prototyping Board

Name:

fpb_ra4e1

Vendor:

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Architecture:

arm

SoC:

r7fa4e10d2cfm

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Overview

The Renesas RA4E1 Group delivers up to 100 MHz of CPU performance using an Arm® Cortex®-M33 core with 512 KB code flash memory, 8 KB of data flash memory, and 128 KB of SRAM. RA4E1 MCUs offer leading-performance. The RA4E1 Group offers a wide set of peripherals, including USB 2.0 Full-Speed, Quad SPI, and advanced analog.

The MCU in this series incorporates a high-performance Arm Cortex®-M33 core running up to 100 MHz with the following features:

MCU Native Pin Access

• R7FA4E10D2CFM MCU (referred to as RA MCU)

• 100 MHz, Arm® Cortex®-M33 core

• 512 KB Code Flash, 8 KB Data Flash, 128 KB SRAM

• 64 pins, LQFP package

• Native pin access through 2 x 50-pin male headers (not fitted)

• MCU current measurement point for precision current consumption measurement

• Multiple clock sources - Low-precision (~1%) clocks are available internal to the RA MCU. RA MCU oscillator and sub-clock oscillator crystals, providing precision 24.000 MHz (not fitted) and 32,768 Hz reference clocks are also available

System Control and Ecosystem Access

• Two 5 V input sources

  • USB (Debug, Full Speed)

  • External power supply (using 2-pin header) (not fitted)

• Built-in SEGGER J-Link Emulator On-Board programmer/debugger (SWD)

• User LEDs and buttons

  • Two User LEDs (green)

  • Power LED (green) (not fitted) 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) connectors (not fitted)

  • ArduinoTM (Uno R3) connectors

• MCU boot configuration jumper (not fitted)

Hardware

Detailed hardware features can be found at:

• RA4E1 MCU: RA4E1 Group User’s Manual Hardware

• FPB-RA4E1 board: FPB-RA4E1 - User’s Manual

Supported Features

The fpb_ra4e1 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.

fpb_ra4e1/r7fa4e10d2cfm 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
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 1	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 Clock6 2	renesas,ra-cgc-pclk
Counter	on-chip	Renesas RA AGT as Counter5	renesas,ra-agt-counter
DAC	on-chip	Renesas RA DAC Controller Global1	renesas,ra-dac-global
	on-chip	Renesas RA DAC Controller1	renesas,ra-dac
Flash controller	on-chip	Renesas RA family flash high-performance controller1	renesas,ra-flash-hp-controller
GPIO & Headers	on-chip	Renesas RA GPIO I/O Port5 1	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 3	renesas,ra-sci
	on-chip	Renesas RA AGT5	renesas,ra-agt
	on-chip	Renesas RA External Interrupt1 15	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
	on-board	Fixed partitions of a flash (or other non-volatile storage) memory1	fixed-partitions
PHY	on-chip	This binding is to be used by all the usb transceivers which are built-in with USB IP1	usb-nop-xceiv
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 3	renesas,ra-pwm
RNG	on-chip	Renesas RA SCE9 TRNG1	renesas,ra-sce9-rng
Serial controller	on-chip	Renesas RA SCI UART controller1 3	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
USB	on-chip	Renesas RA USB full-speed controller1	renesas,ra-usbfs
	on-chip	Renesas RA USB device controller1	renesas,ra-udc
Watchdog	on-chip	Renesas RA Watchdog (wdt)1	renesas,ra-wdt

Programming and Debugging

Applications for the fpb_ra4e1 board 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-RA4E1 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-RA4E1 - 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: R7FA4E10D

• 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

• FPB-RA4E1 Website

• RA4E1 MCU group Website