Well, you might apply for the road test because you wanted a free board (nothing wrong with that at all), or it might be because you were interested in the chip.
But why would you be interested in the chip ?
It's a slow (only 120MHz) Renesas special (ie not and ARM or a RSC V5 or other widely used core) with no stand out features.
It might be really good value for money in large production quantities - but if you are into that you won't be getting your eval boards via road tests.
If (like me) you design stuff for a living and it gets made mainly in medium to small quantities the price of the chip is much less important than the cost of using it -
which is why it's chip families that appeal - like ST's STM32xxxx with hundreds of similar and related parts to choose from, and the ARM ecosystem to lean on.
Dev boards, however cheap, don't drive the decision.
Well, you might apply for the road test because you wanted a free board (nothing wrong with that at all), or it might be because you were interested in the chip.
But why would you be interested in the chip ?
It's a slow (only 120MHz) Renesas special (ie not and ARM or a RSC V5 or other widely used core) with no stand out features.
It might be really good value for money in large production quantities - but if you are into that you won't be getting your eval boards via road tests.
If (like me) you design stuff for a living and it gets made mainly in medium to small quantities the price of the chip is much less important than the cost of using it -
which is why it's chip families that appeal - like ST's STM32xxxx with hundreds of similar and related parts to choose from, and the ARM ecosystem to lean on.
Dev boards, however cheap, don't drive the decision.
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