Renesas Extends Mid-Class AI Processor Line-Up with RZ/V2N Integrating DRP-AI Accelerator for Sensible Factories and Clever Cities of Tomorrow

Renesas Electronics Company, a premier provider of superior semiconductor options, immediately expanded its RZ/V Sequence of microprocessors (MPUs) with a brand new gadget that targets the high-volume imaginative and prescient AI market. Just like its high-end gadget, the RZ/V2H, the brand new RZ/V2N MPU comes with Renesas’ proprietary AI accelerator, DRP (Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor)-AI3, boasting 10 TOPS/W (Tera Operations Per Second Per Watt) energy effectivity and an AI inference efficiency of as much as 15 TOPS via its superior pruning (Observe 1) know-how. With the most recent addition of the RZ/V2N, the RZ/V collection has now expanded to cowl a full vary of markets, from the low-end RZ/V2L (0.5TOPS) to the high-end RZ/V2H (as much as 80 TOPS).

The brand new MPU is considerably smaller than the RZ/V2H, with its bundle space measuring solely 15 mm sq., lowering the world required for mounting by 38%. Inheriting the superior options of the RZ/V collection, the RZ/V2N combines excessive AI efficiency with low energy consumption. These optimized options suppress warmth technology, eliminating the necessity for added cooling followers and lowering the dimensions and price of embedded techniques. Builders can simply implement imaginative and prescient AI in a variety of purposes, from AI cameras for visitors and congestion evaluation in industrial amenities, industrial cameras for visible inspection on manufacturing traces, to driver monitoring techniques for conduct evaluation.

Renesas will showcase a dwell demonstration of the RZ/V2N at embedded world 2025 in Nuremberg, Germany, March 11-13, 2025, on the Renesas sales space, Corridor 1 Stand 234 (1-234).

Double-angle picture processing with two cameras

Just like the RZ/V2H, the brand new RZ/V2N is provided with 4 best-in-class Arm® Cortex®-A55 CPU cores and a single Cortex-M33 core, coupled with a high-quality picture sign processor (ISP), Arm Mali-C55. The RZ/V2N additionally has two channels of MIPI digital camera interfaces, which permit two cameras to be related to seize double-angle photographs. The 2-camera system considerably improves spatial recognition efficiency in comparison with a single digital camera system and permits extra exact human movement line evaluation and fall detection. Moreover, the dual-camera system captures photographs from completely different areas, permitting a single chip to depend automobiles in a car parking zone and acknowledge license plates effectively.

“Since launching the RZ/V2H final 12 months to focus on next-generation robotics requiring imaginative and prescient AI and real-time management, we now have acquired super curiosity in utilizing the Renesas DRP-AI accelerator,” mentioned Daryl Khoo, VP of Embedded Processing at Renesas. “With the addition of the RZ/V2N, sharing the identical lineage because the RZ/V2H, we’re extending our attain to deal with mid-range purposes, notably endpoint imaginative and prescient AI that doesn’t must be realized with energy hungry designs. I’m excited that our prospects will have the ability to choose the perfect AI MPU from Renesas that meets their system and price range necessities.”

“Imaginative and prescient AI purposes throughout markets together with good metropolis, enterprise and industrial are broad and various, however all demand sustained efficiency and environment friendly processing,” mentioned Paul Williamson, senior vp and common supervisor, IoT Line of Enterprise at Arm. “Renesas’ new RZ/V2N MPU leverages the modern capabilities of the Arm compute platform to ship towards the efficiency and effectivity wants of subsequent technology imaginative and prescient AI use circumstances.”

Complete improvement setting

The RZ/V2N can be accessible with the Renesas analysis board equipment and a software program improvement setting, together with numerous AI purposes masking greater than 50 use circumstances which are supplied within the AI Purposes and AI SDK (GitHub). The SDK assists customers with out in-depth AI information to shortly consider and develop AI purposes, shortening time to market. Moreover, associate corporations will present a SOM (system-on-module) board, SBC (single board computer systems), digital camera modules, and different merchandise that incorporate the Renesas RZ/V2N. This reduces {hardware} design work, permitting builders to give attention to AI utility improvement and convey their merchandise to market quickly.

AI Digital camera Answer Profitable Mixture

Renesas has developed the AI Digital camera Answer, which targets quite a lot of purposes, together with factories, public amenities, and industrial amenities. This answer consists of the RZ/V2N, energy administration IC, and real-time clock IC, and can be utilized as a reference for AI digital camera techniques. Profitable Combos are technically vetted system architectures from mutually appropriate gadgets that work collectively seamlessly to convey an optimized, low-risk design for sooner time to market. Renesas affords greater than 400 Profitable Combos with a variety of merchandise from the Renesas portfolio to allow prospects to hurry up the design course of and convey their merchandise to market extra shortly. They are often discovered at renesas.com/win.

Availability 

The RZ/V2N can be accessible from Renesas and its licensed distributors beginning March 19. For extra info, please go to: https://www.renesas.com/rzv2n