Renesas has introduced one other new entry in its RZ household of chips, the 64-bit RZ/G3E — a quad-core processor with built-in neural processing unit, focusing on human machine interfaces (HMIs) with on-board machine studying and synthetic intelligence (ML and AI) capabilities.
“The RZ/G3E builds on the confirmed efficiency of the RZ/G sequence with the addition of an NPU [Neural Processing Unit] to help AI processing,” says Renesas’ vice-president of embedded processing Daryl Khoo of the corporate’s new processor choice. “Through the use of the identical [Arm] Ethos-U55 NPU as our lately introduced RA8P1 microcontroller, we’re increasing our AI embedded processor portfolio and providing a scalable path ahead for AI growth. These developments tackle the calls for of next-generation HMI purposes throughout imaginative and prescient, voice, and real-time analytics with highly effective AI capabilities.”
Renesas is hoping to place some intelligence into your subsequent HMI undertaking with the Linux-capable RZ/G3E. (📷: Renesas)
The RZ/G3E contains two or 4 64-bit Arm Cortex-A55 cores working at as much as 1.8GHz together with a Cortex-M33F core with digital sign processing (DSP) extension performing as a system management core. Alongside these is an Arm Ethos-U55 neural coprocessor delivering a claimed 512 giga-operations per second (GOPS) at minimal precision, designed for energy-efficient acceleration of machine studying and synthetic intelligence on the edge — although fashions with out this accelerator included can be found for many who have not jumped on the AI bandwagon.
The chip’s design features a 32-bit LPDDR4/LPDDR4X interface with help for error correcting code (ECC), twin Full HD (1080p) video outputs over MIPI Show Serial Interface (DSI), dual-link LVDS, or parallel RGB, 3D graphics acceleration, and H.264/H.265 encoding and decoding in {hardware}. There are two PCI Categorical Gen. 3 lanes, one USB 3.2 Gen. 2 connections and two USB 2.0 connections, two gigabit Ethernet connections, and CAN-FD help. The components are additionally supported in Renesas’ Verified Linux Package deal (VLP), primarily based on the Civil Infrastructure Platform, with a ten-year upkeep lifespan — whereas Linux BSP Plus supplies help for Yocto construct environments and the most recent long-term help (LTS) Linux kernel, with Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux and the upstream Debian Linux additionally supported.
Extra info on the RZ/G3E is offered on the Renesas web site; the corporate has, as is common, additionally launched two reference designs constructed across the half, for a human-machine interface platform and a digital otoscope.
