Renesas Electronics EK-RA8P1 Evaluation Kit

Renesas Electronics EK-RA8P1 Evaluation Kit provides the necessary requirements and interface options for evaluating the RA8P1 Microcontrollers. The RA8P1 are AI-enabled single- and dual-core MCUs produced on the advanced TSMC 22nm ULL process. The mixture of hardware AI acceleration with Ethos-U55 and the higher performance of the Cortex-M85 core, concurrently with large memory and a rich peripheral set, makes the RA8P1 MCUs ideal for a wide range of voice and vision AI and real-time analytics.

Features

  • Special feature access
    • 2-lane MIPI DSI and parallel graphics display connectors
    • Camera expansion connector supports both CEU and MIPI-CSI2
    • USB high-speed host and device
    • 64MB external OSPI Flash 64MB SDRAM
    • PDM MEMS microphones and an audio codec with speaker out connections
    • Ethernet (RJ45 RGMII interface)
  • MCU native pin access
    • R7KA8P1KFLCAC MCU
    • 1GHz, Arm® Cortex®-M85 core and 250MHz, Arm Cortex-M33
    • 1MB MRAM, 2MB SRAM w/ECC
    • 289-pins, BGA package
    • Native PIN access
    • MPU and USB current measurement
  • Ecosystem and system control access
    • USB full-speed host and device
    • 5V input through USB (Debug, HS, FS) or external power supply
    • Debug on-board (SWD and JTAG)
    • Debug in (SWD, SWO, ETM, JTAG)
    • Debug out (SWD, SWO, JTAG)
    • Three user LEDs and two user buttons
    • Two SeedGrove® system (I2C and analog)
    • Two Digilent Pmod™ (I2C, SPI, or UART selectable)
    • Arduino™ (Uno R3)
    • MikroElektronika mikroBUS™
    • SparkFun® Qwiic® (I2C)
    • MPU boot configuration switch

Applications

  • Machine vision, motor failure/anomaly detection, robotics
  • Consumer applications such as video doorbells and security cameras
  • Learning thermostats, security panels, and home appliances
  • Voice and Vision AI applications such as people detection, image classification, etc.

Layout

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Inilathala: 2025-06-26 | Na-update: 2025-06-30