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Renesas VUI Reference Solution 

VOICE-RA6E1

 Engineering Manual 

VOICE-RA6E1 Engineering Manual  Rev.1.0 

 

Page 4 of 14 

June 2022 

 

4.  Kit Peripheral Features 

Following is a list of the specific features that have been implemented: 

 

QSPI:  One QSPI flash memory device, Dialog AT25SF641B-MHB-T, 64M-bit (8MB). 

 

PMOD:  1 Digilent PMOD connectors, supporting UART, SPI and I2C configurations. 

 

Microphones:  2 I2S MEMS digital microphones and 2 MEMS analog microphones, distance between 
each pair of microphones is 50mm which is suitable for beamforming applications. 

 

Audio out:  One stereo audio headphone jack supporting mono output on both channels. 

 

LEDs:  Five LEDs, D2 (Red), D3 (Green) and D4 (Blue) configurable by user, D5 (Blue) as a 3.3V power 
indicator, D8(Green) as a JLOB (J-LINK on board) indicator. 

 

Buttons:  One RESET button (S2), and one USER button (S1). 

 

Debug:  J-Link On-Board debug interface, supporting JTAG or SWD debug port. 

 

USB:  Micro USB-B (J6) for power input and J-Link On-Board function, USB-C (J1) for power input and 
RA6E1 USB Full Speed port as a USB device. 

 

Form Factor:  7.5 x 6 cm 

 

5.  MCU Feature Support 

The RA6E1 MCU supports a full array of peripheral functions. The published features of the MCU are listed 
below.  Features highlighted in 

BOLD

 text are directly supported by the kit hardware for voice applications. 

 

Arm Cortex-M33 Core with Floating Point Unit (FPU) 

 

Armv8-M architecture with DSP instruction set 

 

Maximum operating frequency: 200 MHz 

 

Support for 4-GB address space 

 

On-chip debugging system: JTAG, 

SWD

 

 

Boundary scan and Arm Memory Protection Unit (Arm MPU) 

 

Memory 

 

Up to 1MB code flash memory 

 

8-KB data flash memory (125,000 program/erase cycles minimum) 

 

Up to 256KB SRAM 

 

1KB Standby SRAM 

 

Flash Cache (FCACHE) 

 

Memory Protection Units (MPU) 

 

Memory Mirror Function (MMF) 

 

128-bit unique ID 

 

Connectivity 

 

USB 2.0 Full-Speed (USBFS) module 

 

On-chip transceiver with voltage regulator 

 

Serial Communications Interface (SCI) with FIFO × 6 

 

Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) × 2 

 

I2C bus interface (IIC) × 2 

 

Quad Serial Peripheral Interface (QSPI) 

 

Analog 

 

7 channel 12-bit A/D Converter (ADC12) with sample-and-hold circuits 

Summary of Contents for RA6 Series

Page 1: ...ts information on the product at the time of publication and is subject to change by Renesas Electronics Corp without notice Please review the latest information published by Renesas Electronics Corp...

Page 2: ...rmation 3 4 Kit Peripheral Features 4 5 MCU Feature Support 4 6 Kit Architecture 6 6 1 System Block Diagram 6 6 2 Jumper Settings 7 6 2 1 Traditional Pin Header Jumpers 7 6 2 2 Copper Jumpers 7 7 MCU...

Page 3: ...9 Table 6 Analog MEMS Microphone left channel M2 Port Assignments 10 Table 7 Analog MEMS Microphone right channel M3 Port Assignments 10 Table 8 Digital I2S MEMS Microphone left channel M1 Port Assig...

Page 4: ...valuate the functionality of projects developed by Ecosystem Partners and to facilitate the development of additional partner projects The kit design uses the RA6E1 MCU with LQFP 64pin package as the...

Page 5: ...Link On Board function USB C J1 for power input and RA6E1 USB Full Speed port as a USB device Form Factor 7 5 x 6 cm 5 MCU Feature Support The RA6E1 MCU supports a full array of peripheral functions T...

Page 6: ...tem and Power Management Low power modes Battery backup function VBATT Realtime Clock RTC with calendar and VBATT support Event Link Controller ELC Data Transfer Controller DTC DMA Controller DMAC 8 P...

Page 7: ...ring Manual Rev 1 0 Page 6 of 14 June 2022 Clock trim function for HOCO MOCO LOCO General Purpose I O Ports 5V tolerance open drain input pull up switchable driving ability Operating Voltage VCC 2 7 t...

Page 8: ...ort on pin 1 2 Multiplex for QSPI flash and I2S Digital microphone right channel Short on pin 1 2 switch to QSPI flash function Short on pin 2 3 switch to I2S Digital microphone right channel J16 open...

Page 9: ...DQ1 for QSPI flash or MISO for I2S digital microphone right channel mux by J12 jumper wire P102 QSPI DQ0 for QSPI flash or SCK for I2S digital microphone right channel mux by J13 jumper wire P103 QSP...

Page 10: ...14 pin header To enable QSPI flash function please short pins 1 2 on J12 J14 Table 4 QSPI Flash Port Assignments MCU Port QSPI Signal QSPI Pin P100 CLK 6 P112 Chip Select 1 P102 DQ0 5 P101 DQ1 2 P104...

Page 11: ...2 GND 3 GND 4 GND 5 VDD Table 8 Digital I2S MEMS Microphone left channel M1 Port Assignments MCU Port SPI0 Signal MEMS microphone Pin P205 SSLA0 1 LRC Word Select GND for Select as left channel 2 SELE...

Page 12: ...rd RA6E1 on board SWD JTAG Micro USB J6 Debug in External debugging tools RA6E1 on board SWD JTAG 20 pin connector J9 or 10 pin connector J8 Debug out RA4M2 on board Any external RA MCU SWD JTAG 20 pi...

Page 13: ...nSRST RESET Table 16 20 pin JTAG SWD Connector J9 Pin JTAG Pin Name SWD Pin Name Signal Bus J9 1 Vtref Vtref 3V3 J9 2 TMS SWDIO P108 SWDIO J9 3 GND GND GND J9 4 TCK SWCLK P300 SWCLK J9 5 GND GND GND J...

Page 14: ...am 8 9 USB The board includes one USB TYPE C connector J1 supporting USB Full Speed device mode Table 18 USB Full Speed USB Type C Signal Assignments J1 MCU Port USB FS Signal USB C Signal Name USB C...

Page 15: ...Manual Rev 1 0 Page 14 of 14 June 2022 9 Certifications To support international distribution the following certification requirements are met both by design and test Americas FCC Class B Europe CE Cl...

Page 16: ...Engineering Manual for Project VOICE RA6E1 Publication Date April 22 2022 Published by Renesas Electronics Corporation...

Page 17: ...Eng Manual VOICE RA6E1 Renesas VUI Reference Solution VOICE RA6E1 Engineering Manual...

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