ports/renesas-ra/boards/VK-RA6M3: Another New Board.

[mbedNoobNinja]

Thanks to the kind help of @TakeoTakahashi2020 & the mentioned intention for a new ports earlier (#10595), this confirms 2-nd board is also uPy ready.

ports/renesas-ra/boards/VK-RA6M3: Adding another new dev board
ports/renesas-ra/boards: Based on new RA6M3 processor
ports/renesas-ra: Part of existing RA family.

Tests.log

[TakeoTakahashi2020]

Thanks for your contribution, @mbedNoobNinja .

Could you check this code?
I think 0x100000 should be 0x10000 because 32KB block starts from 0x10000.

[mbedNoobNinja]

Nice catch @TakeoTakahashi2020 🙏, thank you for your observation, you are correct! I didn't count the zeros and somehow missed it, but it's fixed now.

[TakeoTakahashi2020]

Hello @mbedNoobNinja -San,

#define MICROPY_HW_BOARD_NAME "VK_RA6M3"

You would be able to use "VK-RA6M3" of the product name for this macro definition as well.

[mbedNoobNinja]

Hi @TakeoTakahashi2020 -San,

I set the name you suggested, and now I hope everything is fine.

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Code size report:

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   unix x64:    +0 +0.000% standard
      stm32:    +0 +0.000% PYBV10
        rp2:    -8 -0.002% PICO

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[mbedNoobNinja]

Hi @dpgeorge I rebased the PR. Do you consider it's ready for merge, or it needs more work? This PR includes Ehternet support for M3 in it. In other words: the same as #12047 but for M3.

[mbedNoobNinja]

M3 gained LCD support. Now the board can take advantage of micropython-nano-gui lib. There is also touch support inspired from here but the user have to process the dots of its own (i.e. manually call the methods touched() / touches() of the LCD calss in the machine modue & see if the returned points are from the area of interest)

[mbedNoobNinja]

M3 gained CAM support. Now the board can take advantage of OV7725. Even more the CAM can now be displayed (or not) on the LCD with the CAM calss methods CAM.show_start(LCD) and CAM.show_stop(). Snapshots are also possible to be saved in the internal FLASH which subsequently can be downloaded on PC with mpremote. Methods are CAM.jpeg('filename') and CAM.yuyv('filename'). There are also a various effects that can be applied black and white, sepia etc.

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