Renesas Electronics GK-Sakura development kit for Gadget Renesas

RS Components has available the GR-Sakura, a low-cost development kit for Gadget Renesas. Gadget Renesas is a project of Renesas Electronics Corporation to offer a series of boards with an easy-to-use, cloud-based software environment for people who have no embedded programming experience as well as experienced embedded professionals to do rapid prototyping.

GR-Sakura is an Arduino-compatible board based on Renesas’s high-performance, 32-bit RX63N series of microcontroller (MCU). The  software environment is web based and development can be done entirely through a web browser. Built to encourage design and innovation, the board is claimed to be user friendly enough even for non-professional engineers to embark on electronics projects.

The two models currently available are the GR-Sakura and the GR-Sakura-Full. Both models utilise the USB connection with a PC, tablet or smartphone to connect to the internet and also support ethernet connections.

Features and specifications include: GR-Sakura - RX63N MCU evaluation board: RX63N (R5F563NBDDFP) (operating frequency: 96 MHz, flash memory: 1 MB, RAM: 128 KB, FPU internal (floating point)) ethernet support, USB function/host support, digital I/O pins: 55, analog input pins: 16, XBee support, JTAG support.

GR-Sakura-Full - all the specs of the GR-Sakura with the addition of a pin header, LAN connector (RJ45), DC power jack and a microSD card socket.