Overview

Description

The Renesas Starter Kit+ for RX62N is intended as a user-friendly introductory and evaluation tool for the RX62N microcontroller. The board also provides a useful platform for evaluating the Renesas suite of development tools for coding and debugging, using High-performance Embedded Workshop*1 as well as programming the device using E1 emulator and/or Flash Development Toolkit.

The Renesas Starter Kit+ for RX62N has been developed speed up code development and reduce time to market. An Renesas Starter Kit+, as the name suggests, is a complete development kit for Renesas microcontrollers.

About the bundled emulator

We have already discontinued production of the E1 emulator due to components of the product having reached their EOL (end of life, i.e. end of production). Please click on the following link to confirm the details and our successor products.
[Notification] End of Life (EOL) Notice for E1 Emulator (PDF | English, 日本語)

The Renesas Starter Kit which includes the E1 emulator is for sale as long as stocks last. There are no changes to the included emulator.

To customers who use Windows 7 (64-bit edition):
When using an installer of this product on a PC which includes Windows 7 (64-bit edition), you may experience a problem where the E1 emulator cannot be used because the USB driver for the E1 emulator is not installed. In this case please install the USB driver according to the following procedure.

  1. Use the attached installer of this product and complete the installation.
  2. Download after Renesas E-Series USB driver V.1.02 Release 00 from the E1 emulator product page.
  3. Execute the downloaded USB driver and start the installation.
  4. The installation confirmation screen of the device software is displayed during the installation.
  5. When the installation is completed, connect the E1 emulator to the PC. The USB driver is automatically installed and the E1 emulator can be used.

Layout and Specification

The LCD display module is supplied as a detachable sub-board. The board dimensions are 150 mm by 180 mm, detailed dimensions are available in the user manual.

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rsk-rx62n-layout-en-zh
Item Specification
Microcontroller R5F562N8BDBG
On-board Memory SDRAM (K4S281632I-UC75): 128 Mbit
I2C EEPROM (AT24C16AN-10SU-2.7): 16 Kbit
SPI Serial Flash (SST25VF016B-50-4C-S2AF): 16 Mbit
Input Clock Main: 12 MHz
Sub: 32.768 kHz
Ethernet (for PHY): 25 MHz
Potentiometer Single-turn, 10 kΩ
LED 5 V Power Indicator: green x 1
3.3 V Power Indicator: green x 1
User: green x 1, orange x 1, red x 2
Ethernet Status: green x 3, yellow x 1
Switch Reset x 1
User x 3
DIP Switch 4-pole x 1
DC Power Jack 7 V to 15 V Input: Jumpers J10 and J11 opened (Default)
5 V Input: Jumpers J10 and J11 shorted
USB Power Jack 5 V Input: 2-pin header
3.3 V Input: 2-pin header
E1 Connector 14-pin box header
E20 Connector 38-pin Mictor Connector
USB Connector Host: USB-A
OTG: USB-MiniAB
Function: USB-MiniB
RS232 Serial Connector 9-pin DSUB
LCD Display Connector 14-pin socket
LCD Panel Connector 2.54 mm pitch, 50-pin (TFT)
Application Board Interface 2.54 mm pitch, 26-pin x 2 (JA1, JA2), 24-pin x 2 (JA5, JA6)
BUS Interface Option 2.54 mm pitch, 50-pin (JA3)

* USB Power Jack, E20 Connector, USB Connector (USB-MiniB), LCD Panel Connector, Application Board Interface and BUS Interface Option are not contained in the product.
* The potentiometer is fitted to offer an easy way of supplying a variable analog input to the controller. It does not necessarily reflect the accuracy of the controllers ADC. Please see the device manual for details.
Manufacturer Name: PIHER INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Part Number: N6R (6 mm RoHS reflowable potentiometer)

Configuration

  • CPU Board
  • Detachable LCD Display Module
  • Detachable AD Adjustment Shaft
  • E1 Emulator
  • Connection Cable (USB Cable, User Interface Cable)
  • Multi region 12 V power supply
  • Quick Start Guide
  • CD-ROM
    - Documents: User Manual, Tutorial, and more
    - IDE: High-performance Embedded Workshop
    - C Compiler: C/C++ Compiler Package for RX Family Evaluation Version
    - Debugger: E1/E20 Emulator Debugger
Notes
  • The C/C++ Compiler Package for RX Family Evaluation Version does not come with technical support services. In addition, The C/C++ Compiler Package for RX Family Evaluation Version has some restrictions compared to the Product Version.
    Trial period: 60 days
    The link size will be limited to 128 KB after 60 days.

PC System Requirements

  • IBM PC/AT or compatible PC (USB interface necessary) *1
  • Intel Pentium Ⅲ 600 MHz or higher *3
  • Memory 128 MB or higher
  • Microsoft Windows 7 / Windows XP / Windows Vista *2 (other than the listed OS is not supported)

*1: IBM and PC/AT are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation of the U.S.
*2: MS, MS-DOS and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation of the U.S. No support for Windows Vista® 64-bit editions. Please see here when using Windows 7 64-bit edition.
*3:Pentium is a trademark of Intel Corporation of the U.S.

Applications

Documentation

Type Title Date
Application Note PDF 346 KB 日本語
Application Note PDF 229 KB
Manual - Development Tools PDF 205 KB 日本語
Manual - Development Tools PDF 610 KB 日本語
Manual - Development Tools PDF 1.47 MB 日本語
Quick Start Guide PDF 926 KB 日本語
Application Note PDF 56 KB 日本語
Application Note PDF 462 KB 日本語
Manual - Development Tools PDF 156 KB
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Design & Development

Software & Tools

Software Downloads

Type Title Date
Software & Tools - Evaluation Software Log in to Download ZIP 37.73 MB 日本語
Software & Tools - Evaluation Software Log in to Download ZIP 38.46 MB 日本語
PCB Design Files Log in to Download ZIP 2.40 MB 日本語
Upgrade - Debugger Log in to Download ZIP 110.84 MB 日本語
Software & Tools - Evaluation Software Log in to Download ZIP 122.90 MB 日本語
Software & Tools - Other Log in to Download ZIP 243.72 MB
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Sample Code