AI Applications and AI SDK
on RZ/V series

The best solution for starting your AI applications.

AI Applications and AI SDK are quick and easy solutions for starting AI.
It provides various AI applications for free.

What's new

2024.12.20

• RZ/V AI Applications Video is released.
  • Added sample use-case videos for following AI Applications.
    • Defense Wild Animals for Crop (Agriclture)
    • Conference Room Usage Monitor (Smart Building)
    • Access Control (Industrial)

For more details, see AI Applications video.

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Getting Started

Renesas RZ/V AI Software Development Kit (AI SDK) is the most comprehensive solution for building end-to-end accelerated AI applications. AI SDK includes Yocto Linux with bootloader, Linux Kernel, Cross Compiler and a complete set of libraries for DRP-AI, graphics and codec.

Getting Started is a complete guide to learn how to run AI Applications, which explains the procedure for setting up the development environment, compiling AI Applications, setting up the board and running AI Applications.

Get your target board now and GET STARTED.

Tutorial video will help you understand better.

AI Applications

AI Applications provides the source code, pre-build application binary and pre-trained AI model objects,
which allow you to select the application from various use cases, and run it on the board immediately.
To see the overview about AI Applications, please refer to About AI Applications page.

Choose the category of applications.

• Agriculture

• Healthcare

• Industrial

• Smart Building

• Smart City

• Smart Home

• Retail

Demo

With the demo binary, users can try the AI Applications without having AI SDK environment.
Download the Demo for your Evaluation Board Kit (EVK) and see each How to Use Guide.

For RZ/V2L EVK

Download RZ/V2L AI Applications Demo

RZ/V2L AI Applications Demo
How to Use Guide
What is RZ/V2L AI Applications Demo?
How can I run the Demo?

• Environment:
  • AI Applications v5.00
  • RZ/V2L AI SDK v5.00
• Demo zip file size: 2.8GB

For RZ/V2H EVK

Download RZ/V2H AI Applications Demo

RZ/V2H AI Applications Demo
How to Use Guide
What is RZ/V2H AI Applications Demo?
How can I run the Demo?

• Environment:
  • AI Applications v5.00
  • RZ/V2H AI SDK v5.00
• Demo zip file size: 3.4GB

Video

Training video

Tutorial videos to explain the contents of Getting Started.

RZ/V2H AI Applications Tutorial - Getting Started v3.00 (Youtube)

24:36

• Latest Tutorial Video for RZ/V2H
• Latest Tutorial Video for RZ/V2H
• For RZ/V2H Evaluation Board Kit.
• For RZ/V2H AI SDK v3.00.

  • Only supports eSD bootloader.

RZ/V2L AI Applications Tutorial - Getting Started v2.10 (Youtube)

25:43

• Latest Tutorial Video for RZ/V2L
• For RZ/V2L Evaluation Board Kit.
• For RZ/V2L AI SDK v2.10.

  • Supports both eSD and eMMC bootloader.
  • In this video, eSD bootloader is used.

RZ/V2L AI Applications Tutorial - Getting Started v1.00 (Youtube)

33:56

• For RZ/V2L Evaluation Board Kit.
• For RZ/V2L AI SDK v1.10.

  • Only supports eMMC bootloader.

AI Applications video

Video to show sample use-cases of RZ/V AI Applications.

Agriculture :
Defense Wild Animals for Crop (YouTube)

1:31

• Environment

  • RZ/V2H Evaluation Board Kit
  • AI Applications v4.00
  • Input: USB Camera (640x480)
  • Output: HDMI (1920x1080)

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Smart Building :
Conference Room Usage Monitor (YouTube)

1:59

• Environment

  • RZ/V2H Evaluation Board Kit
  • AI Applications v4.00
  • Input: USB Camera (640x480)
  • Output: HDMI (1920x1080)

More Details >

Industrial :
Access Control (YouTube)

1:42

• Environment

  • RZ/V2H Evaluation Board Kit
  • AI Applications v4.00
  • Input: USB Camera (640x480)
  • Output: HDMI (1920x1080)

More Details >

Blogs

Check Out the Latest Features in AI Applications v2.10!

Introducing the lineup of RZ/V AI applications, offered with AI Applications v2.10.

Published: Dec. 22, 2023.

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Check Out the New Features in AI Applications v2.00!

To facilitate the tedious task of designing AI solutions from scratch, Renesas proposes RZ/V MPU AI Apps, AI applications that can be easily implemented without AI training.

Published: Sep. 22, 2023.

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Let's find the AI Apps You Want, Introducing Renesas AI Apps Available Free of Charge

Introduction to RZ/V AI applications that can be easily implemented without AI training

Published: Jun. 12, 2023.

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Reference

Followings are references of related software/documentation.

Product	Link	Details
Common	DRP-AI TVM	Machine Learning Compiler plugin for Apache TVM with AI accelerator DRP-AI. Automatically installed in AI SDK.
RZ/V2L	DRP-AI Translator	AI model conversion tool for DRP-AI embedded in RZ/V2L. Included in RZ/V2L AI SDK.
	RZ/V Verified Linux Package	Linux Packages for MPUs of the RZ/V2L. Used in RZ/V2L AI SDK.
	RZ/V2L DRP-AI Support Package	Software to use DRP-AI with RZ/V Vefiried Linux Package, which includes DRP-AI Driver. Used in RZ/V2L AI SDK.
RZ/V2H	DRP-AI Translator i8	AI model conversion tool for DRP-AI embedded in RZ/V2H. Included in RZ/V2H AI SDK.
	RZ/V2H BSP Manual Set	Document for Linux Drivers used in RZ/V2H AI SDK.
	RZ/V2H Video Codec Library User's Manual	RZ/V2H Group Linux Interface Specification GStreamer User's Manual: Software. Document for GStreamer in Video Codec Library used in RZ/V2H AI SDK.
	RZ/V2H OpenCV Accelerator	OpenCV Accelerator which performs OpenCV function in high performance by using DRP. Used in RZ/V2H AI SDK.
	RZ/V2H DRP-AI Driver	Linux driver to use DRP-AI on RZ/V2H. Used in RZ/V2H AI SDK.
	RZ/V2H ROS2 Package	Package that can be applied to RZ/V2H AI SDK to use ROS2.
	RZ/V Multi-OS Package	Package consisting of RZ/V Flexible Software Package (FSP) as software package for Renesas MCU with Arm® Cortex-M, R Core and OpenAMP as standardization API of framework for interprocessor communication for developing multi OS solution. This package can be applied to RZ/V2H AI SDK.
	RZ MPU Security Package	This package is to add Security functions (Secure Boot, Trusted Execution Environment, Hardware Cryptographic IP, Secure Debug, Security Configurator) to RZ MPU. This package can be applied to RZ/V2H AI SDK.
	RZ/V2H ISP Support Package	Package that can be applied to RZ/V2H AI SDK to use Built-in ISP.

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