Renesas Starter Kit+ for RZ/A1H

The Renesas Starter Kit+ for RZ/A1H has been developed to speed up device evaluation, code development and so reduce time to market. An Renesas Starter Kit+, as the name suggests, is a complete development kit for the Renesas RZ/A1H device family.

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Get Started Using RZ/A1H (RZ/A Start-up page)

Product Limitation

Renesas Starter Kit+ for RZ/A1H Product Limitation (22 Oct 2014)

A limitation exists on a batch of Renesas Starter Kit+ for RZ/A1H Products.

Product Affected:

Products affected are identified with number D012221#03, D012221#02, D012221#01.
Products marked with D012221#04 or greater on the type label do not have following limitation.

Limitation:

When resistor R92 is mounted on the RSK+RZA1H board, SD Host Interface does not work correctly. The identified boards were shipped with this resistor fitted.

Explanation:

The effect is to corrupt SD transfers affecting bits 1 and 5 of a byte.

Work-around:

Remove resistor R92 on the RSK+RZA1H board. (R92 is in near at the SD/MMC card socket)

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Product Note

Renesas Starter Kit+ for RZ/A1H Product Note (8 Feb 2016)

Product Affected:

All products.

Explanation:

USB decoupling capacitor and VBUS power circuit of this board cannot be recommended. Please do not refer this capacitor value and USB circuit for your target system design.

Decoupling capacitor C1, C2, C4, C5, C6, C7, C9 and C10 are not recommend value.

When the RZ/A1H is used as a host controller, the additional capacity of the VBUS line should be designed to be 120μF or more.

Recommendation:

Please refer to the recommend value and guideline of Application Note "Guidelines for Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Board Design (REJ05B1216-0100) (PDF)".
In addition, please refer to RZ/A1H Group,RZ/A1M Group User's Manual: Hardware about Table 3 and 4 in Application Note.

Renesas Starter Kit+ for RZ/A1H Product Note (22 Jul 2015)

Product Affected:

Products affected are identified with number D012221#04, D012221#03, D012221#02, D012221#01.

Observation:

When resistors R128, R152, R205 and R297 are mounted on the RSK+RZA1H board, USB signals become degraded. The identified boards were shipped with this resistor fitted.

Explanation:

The effect of these 22 Ohm resistors being fitted is degradation of the D+ and D- signals.

Work-around:

R128, R152, R205 and R297 are 22 Ohm resistors. Replace these 22 Ohm resistors with 0 Ohm resistors on the RSK+RZA1H board.

Bottom side view: R128, R152, R205 and R297 are within the two red boxes.

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Configuration

Arm DS-5 includes

• CPU Board
• TFT LCD Option Board
• Detachable Colour LCD Board Pmod^™ Compatible
• Detachable AD Adjustment Shaft
• Segger J-LINK Lite debugger ^{Note 1}
• Connection cables (USB Cable, User Interface Cable)
• Multi region power supply
• Quick Start Guide
• DVD-ROM
  - Documents: User Manual, Tutorial, and more
  - Arm DS-5 IDE and 32K code limited compiler (requires registration with Arm)
  - KPIT GNU compiler for Cortex^®-A9
  - Segger debugger drivers
  - Sample code

e²studio includes

• CPU Board
• TFT LCD Option Board
• Detachable Colour LCD Board Pmod^™ Compatible
• Detachable AD Adjustment Shaft
• Segger J-LINK Lite debugger ^{Note 1}
• Connection cables (USB Cable, User Interface Cable)
• Multi region power supply
• Quick Start Guide

Note:

1. The Segger's J-Link LITE included in the evaluation kit is dedicated for the attached evaluation board. This J-Link LITE cannot be used for any other boards and products.

PC System Requirements

[ Kit with DS-5 ]

• IBM PC/AT or compatible PC (USB interface necessary) ^{Note 1}
• Processor Dual core 2 GHz (or equivalent)
• Memory 4 GB or more recommended. ^{Note 2}
• Hard disk 3 GB or more spare capacity
• Microsoft Windows 8.1/8/7 ^{Note 3} (other than the listed OS is not supported)

Note:

1. IBM and PC/AT are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation of the U.S.
2. 4GB or more of RAM is recommended to improve performance when debugging large images, or when using the simulation models.
3. Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation of the U.S.

[ Kit with e²studio ]

• IBM PC/AT or compatible PC (USB2.0 interface necessary) ^{Note 1}
• Processor 1.6 GHz or higher
• Memory 1 GB or more recommended.
• Microsoft Windows 8.1/8/7 ^{Note 2} (other than the listed OS is not supported)

Note:

1. IBM and PC/AT are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation of the U.S.
2. Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation of the U.S.