Renesas RZ/V2L MPU Series
General-purpose MPU equipped with Renesas' original AI-fedicated accelerator "DRP-AI", 1.2GHz Dual-Core Arm® Cortex®-A55 CPU, 3D Graphics, and Video Codec Engine
The RZ/V series is embedded with Renesas’ original AI accelerator – DRP AI, targeting at the vision AI market space. The DRP AI delivers both high performance and low power consumption. RZ/V2L is the entry-line device, and the second version of the "RZ/V series" microprocessor with a built-in AI accelerator – DRP-AI – for vision, which is Renesas' original technology. With the rising needs for real-time recognition application using AI, developers are facing challenges in increasing power consumption and heat dissipation required for AI processing. Leveraging the high-power efficiency, which is a key feature of DRP-AI, RZ/V2L can operate with low power consumption. This eliminates the need for heat dissipation measures such as heat sinks and cooling fans contributing to downsizing of equipment and cost reduction of the entire system. RZ/V2L can support not only AI but also various image processing by using the DRP portion of the DRP-AI, which has a key feature of flexibility. For example, by using DRP to perform color correction and noise reduction of input / output images, it is possible to use an inexpensive camera module that does not have an image processing function, which contributes to cost reduction of the entire system.
Furthermore, the RZ/V2L is pin-compatible with the RZ/G2L general-purpose MPU, achieving upward functional compatibility. This makes it easy to build a product lineup with or without AI functions in the same system configuration. It is also equipped with 3D graphics and video codecs, and support GUI rendering. RZ/V2M is the first product in RZ/V series and is being mass-produced as an application specific standard product for Vision AI. RZ/V2M is also equipped with DRP-AI, making it upward compatible with RZ/V2L in terms of performance. In addition, RZ/V2M is equipped up to 4K camera input and hardware ISP can be adapted Vision AI application with single chip.
Renesas provides a winning combination of power supply and clocking solutions optimized for the device so that customer can develop a system using RZ/V2L in a short time.
Features
- Renesas’ original AI accelerator(DRP-AI)
- High-speed AI inference with low power consumption
- Combines flexibility of Dynamic Reconfigurable Processer(DRP) and high processing power of MAC circuit to realize optimal AI processing
- Image Signal Processing(ISP)
- Simple ISP by DRP library (RZ/V2L)
- Tuned ISP by H/W (RZ/V2M)
- Long Term Linux(CIP Linux)
- Maintain Linux kernel for over 10 years
- Scalability and Compatibility
- Pin compatible between RZ/V2L and RZ/G2L
Benefits
- Eliminates the need for heat sinks and cooling fans, enabling device miniaturization and lower BOM costs.
- More options for CMOS image sensors without the need of built-in ISP, and able to build a low-cost vision AI system. (RZ/V2L)
- Provides the best image quality based on Renesas’ selected CMOS image sensor that is tuned by an expert. (RZ/V2M)
- CIP Linux to reduce the maintenance man-hours and software development cost.
- Easy to develop products with or without AI accelerator by pin compatibility.
Applications
Home appliances using Vision AI
- Surveillance Camera
- Marketing Camera
- Doorbell System
- Smart camera
- Robot cleaner
- POS system
Block diagram
silica content library/npi/2022/renesas-rz-v2l
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