Renesas Electronics America Inc., a subsidiary of Renesas Electronics Corporation, delivers trusted embedded design innovation with complete semiconductor solutions that enable billions of connected, intelligent devices to enhance the way people work and live—securely and safely. The number one global supplier of microcontrollers, and a leader in Analog & Power and SoC products, Renesas provides the expertise, quality, and comprehensive solutions for a broad range of Automotive, Industrial, Home Electronics (HE), Office Automation (OA), and Information Communication Technology (ICT) applications to help shape a limitless future.
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Upcoming Event from Avnet and Renesas Explores AI and Connectivity Solutions
September 12, 2023
On October 24, 2023 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM PT (full day attendance is not required), Alliance Member company Avnet, in collaboration with fellow Member company Renesas, will deliver the first AI and Connectivity Day at Avnet’s sales office in San Jose, CA. From the event page: Join us in person for hands on …
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Renesas Demonstration of Its High Performance, Fast Boot, Low Power AI Trail Camera Winning Combo
August 24, 2023
Michael Kosinski, Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Renesas Electronics, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Kosinski demonstrates Renesas’ Winning Combination PoC (Proof of Concept), designed to deliver a low-power AI solution for battery-based trail camera, video doorbell and video security applications. This PoC …
Renesas Demonstration of Its Next-generation Artificial Intelligence Accelerator
Michael Kosinski, Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Renesas Electronics, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Kosinski demonstrates Renesas’ proprietary DRP-AI accelerator, which provides high performance AI inference with excellent power efficiency. This demonstration is a prototype for Renesas’ next-generation DRP-AI, which realizes sparse …
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Avnet Demonstration of the RZBoard V2L for Energy-efficient AI Acceleration with the Renesas RZ/V2L
August 1, 2023
Evan Stoddard, Advanced Applications Group Embedded Software Engineer at Avnet, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Stoddard demonstrates Avnet’s RZ board for energy-efficient AI acceleration, featuring the Renesas RZ/V2L processor. In the demo, various AI/ML models are executed on the energy-efficient DRP-AI accelerator …
Avnet Demonstration of RASynBoard, a Low-power, Always-on, Edge AI Smart Sensor Module
Peter Fenn, Advanced Applications Group Director at Avnet, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Fenn demonstrates why Avnet’s compact, embeddable RASynBoard module is an ideal solution for battery powered, edge-AI applications requiring always-on sound and sensor fusion processing. Based on the Syntiant NDP120 …
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Edge Impulse Demonstration of FOMO: Constrained Object Detection on Embedded Devices
July 27, 2023
Shawn Hymel, Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Edge Impulse, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Hymel demonstrates (“Faster Objects, More Objects”), a novel machine learning algorithm that brings object detection to highly constrained devices. FOMO lets you count objects, find the location of …
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Syntiant’s Deep Learning Computer Vision Models Deployed on Renesas RZ/V2L Microprocessor
May 19, 2023
Technology Collaboration Demonstrations on Display at the Renesas Booth During Embedded Vision Summit 2023 Irvine, Calif., May 19, 2023 – Syntiant Corp., a leader in edge AI deployment, today announced that the company’s commercially available deep learning computer vision (CV) models can now be deployed on the integrated DRP-AI (Dramatically Reconfigurable Processor) core on the …
RASynBoard Brings Low-power, Edge AI Processing to Embedded Sensor Applications
March 9, 2023
Avnet offers compact sensor module and development kit for always-on sensing March 7, 2023 – PHOENIX – The RASynBoard development kit from Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT) can help hardware and software design engineers and embedded AI developers quickly adopt edge AI capabilities into their products, making them more efficient, accurate and reliable. It was created in …
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Renesas Demonstration of Its MPU RZ/V Series With an Embedded AI Accelerator and Avnet’s RZ/V2L SBC
February 2, 2023
Dirk Seidel, Strategic Business Development Manager at Renesas Electronics, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the December 2022 Edge AI and Vision Innovation Forum. Specifically, Seidel demonstrates the company’s MPU RZ/V series solutions, along with partner (and fellow Alliance Member) Avnet’s RZ/V2L single-board computer (SBC). The RZ/V series includes …
Renesas Demonstration of Object Recognition on a Battery-powered Vision AI Edge Device
November 1, 2022
Manny Singh, Product Marketing Manager at Renesas Electronics, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Singh demonstrates the low thermal performance of RZ/V series microprocessors (MPUs) while performing an object recognition task. RZ/V MPUs generate 3.3W with a surface temperature of 53 degree Celsius …
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Renesas Demonstration of MPU Evaluation Using the Vision AI Cloud Platform
Manny Singh, Product Marketing Manager at Renesas Electronics, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Singh demonstrates how RZ/V series microprocessors (MPUs) can be evaluated with remote boards using a cloud platform. Singh shows how easily the vision AI performance of the MPU, including …
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Avnet Demonstration of Vision AI Acceleration Using the Renesas RZ/V2L Processor
October 7, 2022
Jason Lambert, Embedded Software Engineer at Avnet, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Lambert demonstrates various features of RZBoard, a new AI development board in a Raspberry Pi-type form factor. The RZ/V2L processor on this board includes advanced features such as a DRP-AI …
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Renesas Expands RZ/V Series with Built-in Vision AI Accelerator for Accurate Image Recognition and Multi-Camera Image Support
October 5, 2022
New RZ/V2MA MPU Features an OpenCV Accelerator for Image Processing and Offers TVM-based Deep Learning Compiler September 29, 2022 ― TOKYO, Japan ― Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has expanded its AI-capable RZ/V Series of microprocessors (MPUs), with a new device that enables AI processing of image data …
EdgeCortix Collaborates with Renesas to Deliver Enhanced Feature-Rich Compiler for the Renesas DRP-AI AI-Accelerator
July 12, 2022
TOKYO, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — EdgeCortix® Inc., an innovative fabless semiconductor design company with a software first approach, focused on delivering class-leading compute efficiency and latency for edge artificial intelligence (AI) inference, announced today a collaboration with Renesas Electronics Corporation (Renesas). Through this collaboration, EdgeCortix has taken its industry leading heterogeneous platform-based compiler framework …
Renesas Demonstration of the RZ/V Microprocessor with a Power-efficient AI Accelerator
December 15, 2021
Manny Singh, Principal Product Marketing Manager at Renesas, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Singh demonstrates the company’s the RZ/V microprocessor with a power-efficient AI accelerator. In this demo of object detection and recognition on Renesas’ proprietary Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor (DRP-AI), Singh shows …
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Renesas and Syntiant Develop Voice-Controlled Multimodal AI Solution
July 28, 2021
New Offering Enables Low-Power Voice-Controlled Operation of Embedded Vision AI Systems in IoT and Edge Applications TOKYO, Japan, and Irvine, Calif., July 28, 2021 ― Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and Syntiant Corp., a deep learning chip technology company advancing low-power intelligent voice and sensor processing in edge devices, …
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Renesas Launches Entry-Level RZ/V2L MPUs with Best-in-Class Power Efficiency and High-Precision AI Accelerator
May 19, 2021
DRP-AI Handles both AI Inference and Image Processing Functions, Eliminating External ISP Requirements and Enabling More Cost-Efficient Vision AI Implementations May 19, 2021 ― TOKYO, Japan ― Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the expansion of its RZ/V Series of microprocessors (MPUs) with the new RZ/V2L MPUs designed …
Renesas Automotive at CES 2021 – A Unique All-digital Experience
March 4, 2021
This blog post was originally published at Renesas’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Renesas. This year, due to Covid-19, everything was different. For the first time, CES was held virtually and became smaller with fewer exhibitors, fewer visitors. But at the same time, virtualization also brought opportunities: the audience became more …
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Renesas Develops Automotive SoC Functional Safety Technologies for CNN Accelerator Cores and ASIL D Control Combining World-Class Performance and Power Efficiency
February 17, 2021
Delivers 60.4 TOPS and 13.8 TOPS/W in CNN Processing, Enabling Implementation of Main Processing Tasks for Autonomous Driving Systems on a Single Chip February 17, 2021 ― TOKYO, Japan ― Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the development of processor technologies for automotive systems-on-chip (SoCs) used in applications …
Renesas Updates Popular R-Car V3H with Improved Deep Learning Performance for Latest NCAP Requirements Including Driver and Occupant Monitoring Systems
R-Car V3H Delivers Best-in-Class TOPS/Watt for Cutting-Edge Computer Vision and Provides Migration Path Toward NCAP 2025 February 9, 2021 ― TOKYO, Japan ― Today, Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, introduced an update of its state-of the-art R-Car V3H system-on-chip (SoC) to deliver significantly improved deep learning performance for smart …
CEVA’s High-Performance DSP Solution to Power Renesas’ Next-Generation Automotive SoC
November 11, 2020
Rockville, MD., – November 11, 2020 – CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies, today announced that Renesas has licensed a new, high-performance CEVA DSP to power its next-generation automotive System-on-Chip (SoC). “We are honored that Renesas, a world leading automotive semiconductor supplier, has selected our leading-edge DSP …
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Renesas Demonstration of Image Pre-processing Acceleration
November 18, 2019
Shawn Worsell, Business Development Manager at Renesas Electronics, demonstrates the company's latest embedded vision technologies and products at the 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Worsell demonstrates image pre-processing acceleration that leverages the DRP (dynamically reconfigurable processing) capabilities of the company's RZ MPUs.
Renesas Demonstration of Facial Recognition and Classification
November 15, 2019
Shawn Worsell, Business Development Manager at Renesas Electronics, demonstrates the company's latest embedded vision technologies and products at the 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Worsell demonstrates a prototype kiosk, based on a Renesas RZ microprocessor, that implements various facial recognition and classification functions.
Renesas Demonstrations of Object Detection and Recognition
Ganesh Balamitran, Product Marketing Manager at Renesas Electronics, demonstrates the company's latest embedded vision technologies and products at the 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Balamintran delivers two different demos, both running on the same Renesas RZ microprocessor hardware: object recognition with four different open-source AI frameworks, and object detection via SSD (single-shot object detection).
Free Webinar Explores a Dynamically Reconfigurable Hybrid Approach to Embedded Vision Processing
November 13, 2019
On November 13, 2019 at 10 am PT (1 pm ET), Renesas Electronics America's Greg Lara, Senior Product Marketing Manager in the Cognitive Products Department, within the company's Enterprise Infrastructure Business Division, will present a free one-hour webinar, "Renesas' Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor (DRP) Technology Enables a Hybrid Approach for Embedded Vision Solutions," organized by the …
“Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor Technology for Vision Processing,” a Presentation from Renesas
September 6, 2019
Yoshio Sato, Senior Product Marketing Manager in the Industrial Business Unit at Renesas, presents the “Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor Technology for Vision Processing” tutorial at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. The Dynamically Reconfigurable Processing (DRP) block in the Arm Cortex-A9 based RZ/A2M MPU accelerates image processing algorithms with spatially pipelined, time-multiplexed, reconfigurable- hardware compute resources. …
