1.. _ek_ra6m5: 2 3RA6M5 Evaluation Kit 4#################### 5 6Overview 7******** 8 9The Renesas RA6M5 group uses the high-performance Arm® Cortex®-M33 core with 10TrustZone®. The RA6M5 is suitable for IoT applications requiring Ethernet, future 11proof security, large embedded RAM, and low active power consumption down 12to 107uA/MHz running the CoreMark® algorithm from Flash. 13 14The key features of the EK-RA6M5 board are categorized in three groups as follow: 15 16**MCU Native Pin Access** 17 18- 200MHz Arm Cortex-M33 based RA6M5 MCU in 176 pins, LQFP package 19- Native pin access through 4 x 40-pin male headers 20- MCU current measurement points for precision current consumption measurement 21- Multiple clock sources - RA6M5 MCU oscillator and sub-clock oscillator crystals, 22 providing precision 24.000 MHz and 32,768 Hz reference clock. 23 Additional low precision clocks are avaialbe internal to the RA6M5 MCU 24 25**System Control and Ecosystem Access** 26 27- USB Full Speed Host and Device (micro-AB connector) 28- Four 5V input sources 29 30 - USB (Debug, Full Speed, High Speed) 31 - External power supply (using surface mount clamp test points and power input vias) 32 33- Three Debug modes 34 35 - Debug on-board (SWD) 36 - Debug in (ETM, SWD and JTAG) 37 - Debug out (SWD) 38 39- User LEDs and buttons 40 41 - Three User LEDs (red, blue, green) 42 - Power LED (white) indicating availability of regulated power 43 - Debug LED (yellow) indicating the debug connection 44 - Two User buttons 45 - One Reset button 46 47- Five most popular ecosystems expansions 48 49 - Two Seeed Grove system (I2C/Analog) connectors 50 - One SparkFun Qwiic connector 51 - Two Digilent Pmod (SPI and UART) connectors 52 - Arduino (Uno R3) connector 53 - MikroElektronika mikroBUS connector 54 55- MCU boot configuration jumper 56 57**Special Feature Access** 58 59- Ethernet (RJ45 RMII interface) 60- USB High Speed Host and Device (micro-AB connector) 61- 32 Mb (256 Mb) External Quad-SPI Flash 62- 64 Mb (512 Mb) External Octo-SPI Flash 63- CAN (3-pin header) 64 65.. figure:: ek_ra6m5.webp 66 :align: center 67 :alt: RA6M5 Evaluation Kit 68 69 EK-RA6M5 Board Functional Area Definitions (Credit: Renesas Electronics Corporation) 70 71Hardware 72******** 73Detailed hardware feature for the RA6M5 MCU group can be found at `RA6M5 Group User's Manual Hardware`_ 74 75.. figure:: ra6m5_block_diagram.webp 76 :width: 442px 77 :align: center 78 :alt: RA6M5 MCU group feature 79 80 RA6M5 Block diagram (Credit: Renesas Electronics Corporation) 81 82Detailed hardware feature for the EK-RA6M5 MCU can be found at `EK-RA6M5 - User's Manual`_ 83 84Supported Features 85================== 86 87The below features are currently supported on Zephyr OS for EK-RA6M5 board: 88 89+-----------+------------+----------------------+ 90| Interface | Controller | Driver/Component | 91+===========+============+======================+ 92| GPIO | on-chip | gpio | 93+-----------+------------+----------------------+ 94| MPU | on-chip | arch/arm | 95+-----------+------------+----------------------+ 96| NVIC | on-chip | arch/arm | 97+-----------+------------+----------------------+ 98| UART | on-chip | serial | 99+-----------+------------+----------------------+ 100| CLOCK | on-chip | clock control | 101+-----------+------------+----------------------+ 102| I2C | on-chip | i2c | 103+-----------+------------+----------------------+ 104| SPI | on-chip | spi | 105+-----------+------------+----------------------+ 106| COUNTER | on-chip | counter | 107+-----------+------------+----------------------+ 108| USBHS | on-chip | udc | 109+-----------+------------+----------------------+ 110| ADC | on-chip | adc | 111+-----------+------------+----------------------+ 112| PWM | on-chip | pwm | 113+-----------+------------+----------------------+ 114 115Other hardware features are currently not supported by the port. 116 117Programming and Debugging 118************************* 119 120Applications for the ``ek_ra6m5`` board target configuration can be 121built, flashed, and debugged in the usual way. See 122:ref:`build_an_application` and :ref:`application_run` for more details on 123building and running. 124 125Flashing 126======== 127 128Program can be flashed to EK-RA6M5 via the on-board SEGGER J-Link debugger. 129SEGGER J-link's drivers are avaialbe at https://www.segger.com/downloads/jlink/ 130 131To flash the program to board 132 133 1. Connect to J-Link OB via USB port to host PC 134 135 2. Make sure J-Link OB jumper is in default configuration as describe in `EK-RA6M5 - User's Manual`_ 136 137 3. Execute west command 138 139 .. code-block:: console 140 141 west flash -r jlink 142 143Debugging 144========= 145 146You can use Segger Ozone (`Segger Ozone Download`_) for a visual debug interface 147 148Once downloaded and installed, open Segger Ozone and configure the debug project 149like so: 150 151* Target Device: R7FA6M5BH 152* Target Interface: SWD 153* Target Interface Speed: 4 MHz 154* Host Interface: USB 155* Program File: <path/to/your/build/zephyr.elf> 156 157**Note:** It's verified that we can debug OK on Segger Ozone v3.30d so please use this or later 158version of Segger Ozone 159 160References 161********** 162- `EK-RA6M5 Website`_ 163- `RA6M5 MCU group Website`_ 164 165.. _EK-RA6M5 Website: 166 https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/microcontrollers-microprocessors/ra-cortex-m-mcus/ek-ra6m5-evaluation-kit-ra6m5-mcu-group 167 168.. _RA6M5 MCU group Website: 169 https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/microcontrollers-microprocessors/ra-cortex-m-mcus/ra6m5-200mhz-arm-cortex-m33-trustzone-highest-integration-ethernet-and-can-fd 170 171.. _EK-RA6M5 - User's Manual: 172 https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/man/ek-ra6m5-v1-users-manual 173 174.. _RA6M5 Group User's Manual Hardware: 175 https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/man/ra6m5-group-users-manual-hardware 176 177.. _Segger Ozone Download: 178 https://www.segger.com/downloads/jlink#Ozone 179
