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Features

  • 360MHz Arm® Cortex®-M85 with Helium™ MVE
  • 1MB Flash memory and 544KB of SRAM including TCM
  • 32KB I/D caches and 12KB data flash
  • ARMv8-M TrustZone security
  • On-chip immutable ROM for first stage bootloader
  • 8-bit CEU camera I/F
  • xSPI compliant Octal SPI with XIP
  • USB 2.0 FS
  • 2ch of CAN FD
  • Ethernet controller with DMA
  • 32-bit & 16-bit timers, 32-bit ultra-low-power timers
  • 12-bit ADC and 12-bit DAC
  • High-speed analog comparators
  • SCI (UART, Simple SPI, Simple I2C), SSI
  • SPI/ I2C multi-master interface
  • 100 and 144-pin LQFP packages

Description

The RA8E1 MCU Group features entry-line 32-bit microcontrollers (MCU) based on the Arm® Cortex®-M85 (CM85) core with Helium and TrustZone®, delivering breakthrough performance of 6.39 CoreMarks/MHz, with fully deterministic, low-latency, real-time operation that enables customers’ most demanding application needs. These are general-purpose MCUs and address diverse high-performance and compute-intensive applications in industrial automation, home appliances, smart home, consumer, building/home automation, and medical/healthcare market segments.

The RA8E1 MCUs integrate the high-performance CM85 core with memory, multiple external interfaces and an optimized peripheral set that addresses the needs of price-sensitive applications. RA8E1 MCUs are available in 100 and 144-pin LQFP packages, to serve the needs of a broad range of high-performance applications. 

The RA8E1 MCUs are fully supported by the RA Flexible Software Package and a comprehensive set of hardware and software development tools.

Parameters

Attributes Value
Main CPU ARM Cortex-M85, Arm Cortex-M85
Program Memory (KB) 1024
RAM (KB) 544
Carrier Type Full Carton (Tray), Full Tray (Tray)
Supply Voltage (V) -
I/O Ports 70, 106
DRAM I/F SDRAM
Temp. Range (°C) Tj = -40 to +105
Operating Freq (Max) (MHz) 360
Ethernet speed 10M/100M
EtherCat (ch) (#) 0
USB FS (host ch/device ch) ( 1 / 1 )
USB HS (host ch/device ch) ( 0 / 0 )
USB SS (host ch/device ch) ( 0 / 0 )
SCI or UART (ch) 6
SPI (ch) 2
I2C (#) 2
CAN (ch) 0
CAN-FD (ch) 2
Wireless No
SDHI (ch) 0
High Resolution Output Timer No
PWM Output (pin#) 20
32-Bit Timer (ch) 6, 8
16-Bit Timer (ch) (#) 4
Standby operable timer Yes
Asynchronous General Purpose Timer / Interval Timer (ch) 2
16-Bit A/D Converter (ch) 0
14-Bit A/D Converter (ch) 0
12-Bit A/D Converter (ch) 13
24-Bit Sigma-Delta A/D Converter (ch) 0
12-Bit D/A Converter (ch) 1
8-Bit D/A Converter (ch) 0
Capacitive Touch Sensing Unit (ch) 0
Image Codec No
Segment LCD Controller No
Security & Encryption Unique ID, TRNG

Package Options

Pkg. Type Pkg. Dimensions (mm) Lead Count (#) Pitch (mm)
LFQFP 14 x 14 x 1.4 100 0.5
LFQFP 20 x 20 x 1.7 144 0.5
LQFP 14 x 14 x 1.4 100 0.5
LQFP 20 x 20 x 1.7 144 0.5

Application Block Diagrams

Entry Level Voice & Vision AI System Block Diagram
Entry Level Voice & Vision AI System
Cost-effective AI/ML system with Arm Cortex-M85 MCU, offering voice, image recognition, and secure connectivity.

Additional Applications

  • Industrial Applications (PLC, Robotics, Power Tools, Smart Meters, etc.)
  • Consumer Products (Smart Appliances, Robotic Vacuum Cleaners, Exercise Equipment, etc.)
  • Smart Home and Building Automation (HVAC, Thermostats, Home Hubs/Gateways, Security Access Panels)
  • Office Automation (Barcode Scanner, QR Code Reader, Fingerprint Scanner, etc.)
  • Healthcare (Infusion Pumps, CPAP Machine, etc.)
  • Predictive Maintenance and Voice AI Applications
  • Vision AI Applications (People Detection, Image Classification, Object Detection)

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Overview of the RA8E1 32-bit MCU group delivering breakthrough performance of 6.39 Coremarks/MHz, with fully deterministic, low latency, realtime operation to enable the most demanding application needs. Learn more on the RA8E1 page.