Latest revision as of 19:29, 27 October 2023

Introduction

This page is for the Renesas RZ/A family of embedded SoCs. The main goal is to make the information about RZ/A SoCs friendly, easy to access for embedded developers.

The links below can be used to get familiar with Renesas RZ/A SoC

RZ/A MPU – The Power of an MPU, the Simplicity of an MCU

Boards

Here is the list of available Renesas Evaluation Boards (bottom of page).
The board pages below contain instructions for downloading and building the BSP as well as other useful information about the boards.

RZ/A3

◼ RZA3UL Evaluation board

RZA3UL
by Renesas

RZ/A2M

◼ RZA2M Evaluation board

RZA2M
by Renesas

◼ RZA2M MBED Mango

[1]

by Renesas MBED

RZ/A1

◼ Stream It kit

RZ/A1LU
by Renesas

◼ RZ/A1H Starter Kit

RZA/1H
by Renesas

◼ GR-LYCHEE

[2]

RZ/A1LU
by Renesas MBED

◼ GR-PEACH

[3]

RZ/A1H
by Renesas MBED

Official Software and Documentation

These are the currently supported Software packages for the RZA1 and RZA2M. The

Renesas Supported Development Environments

Renesas e2studio
RZA1 Smart Configurator
- NOTE: The RZA1 is not supported on the Smart Configurator found in the Renesas e2studio IDE.
- This Smart Conjugator is a standalone application
- Hardware Pin Configuration is supported
- Code Generation not supported

RZA GUI Platforms

Microsoft Azure GUIX demos
TES Guiliani 　demos Support Page
Crank contact Crank for RZA demos
MicroEJ contact MicroEJ for RZA Java demos
Tara Embedded Wizard contact Tara for RZA demos

RZA Bootloaders

Below are links to Source code for the RZ/A bootloaders and firmware update. These are reference code that was designed for the Renesas RZ/A EVKs. Included below are links to porting documentation.

RZA1

RZ/A1 Bootloader
- RZ/A1H Group Example of Booting from Serial Flash Memory doc and Source Code
- RZ/A1LU QSPI Flash Boot Loader doc and Source Code
- RZ/A1LU Group Example of Booting from Serial Flash Memory doc and Source Code
RZA firmware update
- The RZA1 does not have Firmware Update reference code.
- Refer to the RZA2M Firmware Update for Serial Flash Driver to port to the RZA1.

RZA2M

RZ/A2M Group Example of booting from OctaFlash™ using SPI multi I/O bus controller doc, Source Code
RZA2M Firmware update ( rza2m_fw_update_sample_freertos_gcc.zip )
- Code and documentation is in the "RZ/A2M Group RZ/A2M Simple Applications Package"

Articles and Whitepapers

Topics

🎥 Demo Videos

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 *[https://www.embedded-wizard.de/platforms/renesas/rz-a Tara Embedded Wizard] ''contact Tara for RZA demos''
+= RZA Bootloaders =
+Below are links to Source code for the RZ/A bootloaders and firmware update. These are reference code that was designed for the Renesas RZ/A EVKs. Included below are links to porting documentation.
-=Articles and Whitepapers=
+RZA1
+* RZ/A1 Bootloader
+** RZ/A1H Group Example of Booting from Serial Flash Memory [https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/apn/rza1h-group-example-booting-serial-flash-memory?r=1169376 doc] and [https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/scd/rza1h-group-example-booting-serial-flash-memory-rev100-sample-code?language=en&r=1169376 Source Code]
+** RZ/A1LU QSPI Flash Boot Loader [https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/apn/rza1lu-qspi-flash-boot-loader?r=1054501 doc] and [https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/scd/rza1lu-qspi-flash-boot-loader-rev300-sample-code?language=en&r=1054501 Source Code]
+** RZ/A1LU Group Example of Booting from Serial Flash Memory [https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/apn/rza1lu-group-example-booting-serial-flash-memory?r=1054501 doc] and [https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/scd/rza1lu-group-example-booting-serial-flash-memory-rev100-sample-code?language=en&r=1054501 Source Code]
+* RZA firmware update
+** The RZA1 does not have Firmware Update reference code.
+** Refer to  the '''RZA2M Firmware Update''' for Serial Flash Driver to port to the RZA1.
+RZA2M
+* RZ/A2M Group Example of booting from OctaFlash™ using SPI multi I/O bus controller [https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/apn/rza2m-group-example-booting-octaflash-using-spi-multi-io-bus-controller?r=1169391 doc], [[Source Codehttps://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/scd/rza2m-group-example-booting-octaflash-using-spi-multi-io-bus-controller-rev100-sample-code?language=en&r=1169391|Source Code]]
+* RZA2M Firmware update ( rza2m_fw_update_sample_freertos_gcc.zip )
+** Code and documentation is in the "[https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/scd/rza2m-group-rza2m-simple-applications-package?r=1169391 RZ/A2M Group RZ/A2M Simple Applications Package]"
+= Articles and Whitepapers =
 *[https://www2.renesas.cn/cn/en/blogs/improve-machine-vision-20-times-renesas-drp RZ/A2M: Improve Machine Vision up to 20 times with Renesas DRP!]
 *[https://www.renesas.com/us/en/blogs/rza2m-drp-realizes-fast-detection-2d-barcode-code-type RZ/A2M DRP realizes fast detection of 2D barcode code type] [https://github.com/renesas-rz/rza2m_barcode_type_detection_demo Sample Code]

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