EK-RA8D1 Evaluation Kit by Renesas
The EK-RA8D1 evaluation kit enables users to effortlessly evaluate the features of the RA8D1 MCU Group and develop embedded systems applications using Renesas’ Flexible Software Package (FSP) and e2 studio IDE. Utilize rich onboard features along with your choice of popular ecosystem add-ons to bring your big ideas to life.
The EK-RA8D1 kit consists of three boards: the EK-RA8D1 board featuring the RA8D1 MCU with on-chip graphics LCD controller, a MIPI graphics expansion board featuring a 4.3-inch TFT color LCD with capacitive touch overlay, and a camera expansion board featuring a 3M pixels CMOS image sensor.
Features
- Special Feature Access
- MIPI DSI and Parallel Graphics Expansion Ports
- Camera Expansion Port
- Ethernet
- USB High-Speed Host and Device
- 64MB SDRAM
- 64MB External Octo-SPI Flash
- MCU Native Pin Access
- R7FA8D1BHECBD MCU
- 480MHz, Arm® Cortex®-M85 core
- 2MB Code Flash, 1MB SRAM
- 224 pins, BGA package
- Native pin access
- MCU and USB current measurement
- DC/DC mode configuration
- Ecosystem and System Control Access
- USB Full Speed Host and Device
- Multiple 5V input sources
- USB (debug, Full-Speed, High-Speed)
- External power supply
- SEGGER J-Link™ onboard programmer and debugger
- Debug modes
- Debug Onboard (SWD) – via J-Link
- Debug Out (SWD) – via J-Link
- Debug In (ETM, SWD and JTAG) – via J-Link, Arm® Keil® ULINK™, IAR I-jet™, Renesas E2/E2 Lite, etc.
- User LEDs and buttons
- Three user LEDs (red, blue, green)
- Power LED (white) indicating the availability of regulated power
- Debug LED (yellow) indicating the debug connection
- Two user buttons
- One reset button
- Five most popular ecosystem expansions
- MikroElektronika™ mikroBUS connector
- SparkFun® Qwiic® connectors (may not be populated)
- Two SeeedGrove® system (I2C and analog) connectors (may not be populated)
- Two Digilent Pmod™ (SPI and UART) connectors
- Arduino™ (Uno R3) connector
- MCU boot configuration
- MIPI Graphics Expansion Board
- 4.5 Inch backlit TFT display, 16.7M display colors
- 480x854 pixels resolution
- 2-lane MIPI interface
- Capacitive touch overlay (I2C)
- Camera Expansion Board
- Off-the-shelf Arducam CMOS OV3640 Camera Module
- ¼ Inch 3.1 Megapixel image sensor
- Up to 15 fps in QXGA (2048x1536 pixels) resolution
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CircuitPython 9.2.6
This is the latest stable release of CircuitPython that will work with the EK-RA8D1 Evaluation Kit. Use this release if you are new to CircuitPython.
Modules included in this download
digitalio microcontroller os random storage struct time zephyr_serialFeatures: STEMMA QT/QWIIC, Arduino Shield Compatible, Display, Camera
Absolute Newest
Every time we commit new code to CircuitPython we automatically build binaries for each board and language. The binaries are stored on Amazon S3, organized by board, and then by language. These releases are even newer than the development release listed above. Try them if you want the absolute latest and are feeling daring or want to see if a problem has been fixed.
Previous Versions of CircuitPython
All previous releases of CircuitPython are available for download from Amazon S3 through the button below. For very old releases, look in the OLD/ folder for each board. Release notes for each release are available at GitHub button below.
Older releases are useful for testing if you something appears to be broken in a newer release but used to work, or if you have older code that depends on features only available in an older release. Otherwise we recommend using the latest stable release.