The Renesas Starter Kit (RSK) is intended as a user-friendly introductory and evaluation tool. The board also provides a useful platform for evaluating the Renesas suite of development tools for coding and debugging, using High-performance Embedded Workshop as well as programming the device using E8 emulator and/or Flash Development Toolkit.

The RSK may be connected to the host PC using a simple RS232 serial connection or via the included USB E8 on chip debugging interface.