RZ/N2H Evaluation Board Kit

Overview

The Evaluation Board Kit for RZ/N2H is an evaluation and development kit for the RZ/N2H MPU. Since it has an on-board emulator, you can start evaluation by simply connecting the bundled cable with your PC. This board includes rich functional ICs such as Gigabit Ethernet PHY, non-volatile memory and LPDDR4 memory, and you can evaluate various functions of RZ/N2H without an extension board.

In addition, by expanding the inverter board, it is also possible to realize multi-axis motor control.

  • On-board RZ/N2H MPU 576-pin (R9A09G087M44GBG)

  • Rich functional ICs such as Gigabit Ethernet PHY, non-volatile memory (QSPI flash, Octa flash, eMMC) and DDR are mounted, functions of target MPU can be fully evaluated

  • Micro SD card slot, SD card slot and PCIe connector

  • Generic interface such as Pmod/Grove/QWIIC/mikroBUS

  • The pin header enables users to freely combine with the user’s hardware system and evaluate RZ/N2H

  • Emulator circuit is mounted, can start program debugging by simply connecting USB cables: three USB cables are bundled for power supply (Type C, 15V), on-board emulator connection (Micro B) and terminal debugging (Mini B).

    • Please prepare USB PD power supply (45W = 15V-3A or more) by yourself.

  • Renesas IDE e² studio and FSP for RZ/N2 are available

Hardware

Detailed hardware features for the board can be found at:

Supported Features

The rzn2h_evb 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.

rzn2h_evb/r9a09g087m44gbg/cr52_0 target

Type

Location

Description

Compatible

CPU

on-chip

ARM Cortex-R52 CPU1

arm,cortex-r52

Clock control

on-chip

Generic fixed-rate clock provider1

fixed-clock

GPIO & Headers

on-chip

Renesas RZ GPIO common v31

renesas,rz-gpio-common-v3

on-chip

Renesas RZ GPIO controller531

renesas,rz-gpio

Input

on-board

Group of GPIO-bound input keys1

gpio-keys

Interrupt controller

on-chip

ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v31

arm,gic-v3

on-chip

Renesas RZ Interrupt Controller (ICU)1

renesas,rz-icu-v2

on-chip

Renesas RZ external interrupt controller115

renesas,rz-ext-irq

LED

on-board

Group of GPIO-controlled LEDs1

gpio-leds

Miscellaneous

on-chip

Renesas RZ SCI controller15

renesas,rz-sci

MTD

on-chip

Fixed partitions of a flash (or other non-volatile storage) memory1

fixed-partitions

Pin control

on-chip

Renesas RZ/N2L Pin Controller1

renesas,rzn-pinctrl

Serial controller

on-chip

Renesas RZ SCI UART controller15

renesas,rz-sci-uart

SRAM

on-chip

Generic on-chip SRAM4

mmio-sram

Timer

on-chip

per-core ARM architected timer1

arm,armv8-timer

Connections and IOs

By default, the board is configured for use with:

  • UART0 connected to the USB serial port (CN27),

  • LEDs defined as led8, led9, led10 and led11,

The Zephyr console uses UART0.

Programming and Debugging

The rzn2h_evb board supports the runners and associated west commands listed below.

flash debug debugserver reset attach rtt
jlink ✅ (default) ✅ (default)

Applications for the rzn2h_evb 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.

To use J-Link OB,

  1. Open the jumper pin (JP40) for switching the debug connection.

  2. Connect the micro-USB type-B to J-Link OB USB connector (CN26), and then the LED12 is lighted.

Console

The UART port is accessed by USB-Serial port (CN27).

Debugging

Here is an example for building and debugging with the Hello World application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b rzn2h_evb/r9a09g087m44gbg/cr52_0 samples/hello_world
west debug

Flashing

Before using flash command, the board must be set to xSPI boot mode.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b rzn2h_evb/r9a09g087m44gbg/cr52_0 samples/hello_world
west flash

References