Discover the new RA8 series MCU with Cortex-M85

15 Oct 2024 - 17 Oct 2024

Italy, multiple locations

Join Avnet Silica and Renesas for an interactive workshop, providing hands-on experience with the cutting-edge RA8 Series MCU, showcasing the powerful Arm Cortex-M85 architecture, industry’s first ARM Cortex-M85 based MCUs.

During the workshop, you will learn how to create your first project on the RA8 MCU using the Renesas Flexible Software Package (FSP). FSP is designed to provide easy-to-use, scalable, high-quality software for embedded system designs using the RA Family of Arm® MCUs. The software provides a quick and versatile way to build secure, connected IoT devices using production-ready drivers, industry leading RTOS, and other middleware stacks. In addition, we will demo a powerful but cost-effective way to add Low Power Bluetooth to the RA series MCUs.

Hardware Requirements

Host PC with administrative rights with at least one USB port available
Internet connection available during the hands-on to access lab files

EK-RA8M1

Customers who are going to design with RA8 or want to evaluate in deep this platform will receive an EK-RA8M1

Dates & locations

• October 15th, 2024 - Avnet Silica Office, Via A. Manzoni, 44, 20095 Cusano Milanino,  Milano
• October 16th,  2024 - Avnet Silica Office, Viale dell’Industria, 23, 35129 Padova
• October 17th, 2024 - AC Hotel, Via Sebastiano Serlio, 28, 40128 Bologna

Agenda

• 09:00 – Welcome and overview
  • RA MCU family and Flexible software package overview
• 10:00 – Coffee Break
• 10:15 – FSP hands-on Lab 1: Project Configuration and Peripheral Driver Integration
  • You will be able to craft a project using the FSP configurator to periodically sample ADC values through a timer
• 11:30 – Wireless (BLE, WiFi, Matter) overview
  • BLE hands-on Lab 2: Adding BLE to an RA MCU Design using FSP Framework
• 13:00 – Lunch
• 14:00 – FSP Hands-On Lab 3: High Performance with RA8 MCU using Arm® Cortex-M85 core with Helium
  • Introduction to the performance advantages of the Renesas RA8 MCU with CM85 core by benchmarking Helium intrinsics and Arm® CMSIS DSP Library functions versus scalar versions
• 15:30 – GreenPAK: Programmable Mixed-Signal solution  
• 16:00 – Wrap-Up & Q&A

Registration

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