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The SK-S7G2 is not guaranteed to be error free, and the entire risk as to the results and performance of the SK-S7G2 is assumed by the User. The SK-S7G2 is provided by Renesas on an “as is” basis without warranty...
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The user is advised to take ESD precautions when handling the equipment. • The Renesas SK-S7G2 does not represent and ideal reference design for an end product and does not fulfill the regulatory standards for an end product. R12UM0001EU0100 Rev 0.5...
Chapter 2 - Overview and Purpose 2.1 Purpose The SK-S7G2 is a Starter Kit for the Renesas Synergy S7G2 microcontroller in a 176 pin LQFP package. The board provides easy-to-access interfaces to the peripherals of the S7G2 microcontroller for application development.
One capacitive slider Audio output QSPI memory (8MB) SPI, I2C, CAN, and SCI interface Bluetooth Smart (Low Energy) using a Renesas RL78/G1D Bluetooth Smart device 2.5 Resources The following documents are related to S7G2 and SK-S7G2 hardware: SK-S7G2 Quick Start Guide...
Synergy S7G2 SK-S7G2 Starter Kit User Manual Chapter 3 - Getting Started To start working with the SK-S7G2 Kit, see the Quick Start Guide included in the Kit. The Quick Start Guide provides instructions on how to download the required software tools and on how to use the tools to run a simple demonstration application, Blinky, on the board.
Synergy S7G2 SK-S7G2 Starter Kit User Manual Chapter 4 – Power Supply Requirements 4.1 Power Supply Power is supplied to the SK-S7G2 board through the debug USB connector (J19). The SK-S7G2 requires 5V applied on this interface (USB standard). Once power is supplied, the power supply indicator LED4 (green) will light up. 4.2 Power-Up Behavior When power is applied to the SK-S7G2, the power-on reset (POR) monitor of the S7G2 microcontroller resets the device.
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Synergy S7G2 SK-S7G2 Starter Kit User Manual Power consumption for the analog supply of the S7G2 microcontroller requires removing resistor R114 and measuring current across it. Figure 6: Measuring analog current consumption on S7G2 microcontroller R12UM0001EU0100 Rev 0.5 Page 6 of Sep 24, 2015...
Synergy S7G2 SK-S7G2 Starter Kit User Manual Chapter 5 – Board Components The main board components, interfaces, and configuration items are listed below. 5.1 On Board J-Link Debugger The SK-S7G2 board features a SEGGER J-Link On-Board debugger, accessible through J19 USB connector. Alternatively, the onboard debugger can be bypassed by removing resistors R107, R108, R109, and R110.
Synergy S7G2 SK-S7G2 Starter Kit User Manual Figure 9: Touch-screen controller 5.3 Ethernet The SK-S7G2 kit includes a Micrel KSZ8081 10/100 Ethernet physical interface. Ethernet connection is done via the RJ-45 standard connector J11. 5.4 PMOD The SK-S7G2 kit includes two standard PMOD interfaces. The first, PMODA, available on the J12 connector, exposes an SPI interface, three GPIO lines and an interrupt line to the S7G2 microcontroller.
Synergy S7G2 SK-S7G2 Starter Kit User Manual Figure 12: RS-232/485 and CAN interface 5.6 USB Device Port The SK-S7G2 kit is equipped with a USB Full-Speed (12Mbps) device port on J5. The SK-S7G2 cannot be powered via this interface (power still needs to be applied via the USB device port J19) but connection to this port can be detected since the power pin of this port is connected to a microcontroller GPIO.
User Manual Figure 14: USB host port 5.8 Bluetooth The SK-S7G2 kit contains an on-board Bluetooth/BLE interface. This interface is implemented via a Renesas RL/78 Bluetooth SMART MCU. Communication with this Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) interface is done via a serial communication interface (SCI) channel of the S7G2 MCU.
Synergy S7G2 SK-S7G2 Starter Kit User Manual Figure 17: Audio output 5.11 User Buttons and LEDs The SK-S7G2 kit includes two user buttons directly wired to interrupt pins of the S7G2 microcontroller, as well as three generic user LEDs connected to microcontroller GPIO pins. Figure 18: User buttons and LEDs 5.12 QSPI Flash The SK-S7G2 kit includes one 64Mb (8MB) QSPI Flash connected to the QSPI interface of the microcontroller.
Synergy S7G2 SK-S7G2 Starter Kit User Manual Chapter 6 – Board Layout The SK-S7G2 kit board measures 145mm x 120mm and the following diagram shows the location of all the relevant board components described in the prior section. Figure 22: SK-S7G2 component placement R12UM0001EU0100 Rev 0.5 Page 13 of Sep 24, 2015...
Synergy S7G2 SK-S7G2 Starter Kit User Manual Chapter 7 – Configuration The SK-S7G2 kit has several configuration options. These are set via jumpers. The following table lists the different jumpers and their positions. Table 1: SK-S7G2 configuration jumpers JUMPER FUNCTION S7G2 boot selection.
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Synergy S7G2 SK-S7G2 Starter Kit User Manual TTL interface on MCU breakout headers J20-J23 removed removed R12UM0001EU0100 Rev 0.5 Page 15 of Sep 24, 2015...
Synergy S7G2 SK-S7G2 Starter Kit User Manual Chapter 8 – Connectivity The following sections describe in detail the interfaces available on the SK-S7G2 kit, detailing the MCU resources utilized in each. 8.1 USB Host Port The SK-S7G2 kit includes one USB Host/High-Speed port (J6). This port supplies current to devices connected to it via a current limited power switch (U14).
Synergy S7G2 SK-S7G2 Starter Kit User Manual P806 ETH_RESET# P403 ETH_MDC P404 ETH_MDIO P705 ETH_CRS_DV P405 ETH_TXD_EN P700 ETH_TDX0 P406 ETH_TXD1 P702 ETH_RXD0 P703 ETH_RXD1 P704 ETH_RX_ER P701 ETH (Reference Clock) 8.4 LCD The SK-S7G2 kit includes a 240x320 QVGA LCD display with touch screen interface. This display is connected directly to the S7G2’s display port, and via a touchscreen controller IC to the display’s touchscreen interface.
Synergy S7G2 SK-S7G2 Starter Kit User Manual P400 IRQ0# P603 GPIO (PMOD pin 4) P604 GPIO (PMOD pin 6) P605 GPIO (PMOD pin 8) 8.4 JTAG/SWD The SK-S7G2 kit includes several alternatives for JTAG emulation/debugging. It includes an onboard SEGGER J-Link JTAG debugger, accessible via the debugging/power USB port (J19).
Synergy S7G2 SK-S7G2 Starter Kit User Manual Chapter 11 - Additional Information Further information available for this product can be found on the Renesas Synergy website at: http://am.renesas.com/products/embedded_systems_platform/synergy/ General information on Renesas Microcontrollers can be found on the global Renesas website: http://www.renesas.com/...
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