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As the first device group of the RA Family including an AI accelerator, new RA8P1 devices incorporating ARM® Ethos™-U55 are now supported.
- Supported the Windows version of e² studio and RUHMI powered by EdgeCortix® MERA™.
RZ/V AI Application v5.20 is now supported.

AI Navigator, which integrates the functionality required for edge AI development, can be used to shorten development time.

Please refer tothe AI Navigator Quick Start Guide for the installation and basic usage.

[RA8P1] Quick Start Guide : in Chapter "Running RUHMI with AI Navigator" within Renesas RUHMI Framework Quick Start Guide

[RZ/V] Quick Start Guide : in RZ/V AI Web (GitHub)

Features

  • Navigating through the simple development of AI applications
  • Providing a variety of sample AI applications and sample AI models to shorten the periods for evaluating devices and developing applications
  • Providing a transfer learning feature for the sample AI models to shorten the design processes and learning times for AI model
  • Converting the AI models into executable files that are optimized for Renesas devices and making effective use of the hardware accelerator
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Release Information

Product NameLatest Ver.ReleasedTarget Device (Note1)Details of upgradeOperating Environment
AI NavigatorV2.0.0July 1, 2025RA Family
RZ Family
See Release Notee² studio plug-in Operating Environment

Notes

  1. For details on supported MCUs and MPUs, refer to the section Target Devices.

Target Devices

Downloads

Type Title Date
Upgrade - IDE Log in to Download RUN 1,528.26 MB 日本語
Upgrade - IDE Log in to Download ZIP 1,680.52 MB 日本語
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Documentation

Type Title Date
Release Note PDF 573 KB 日本語
Quick Start Guide PDF 1.25 MB
Tool News - Release PDF 148 KB 日本語
Release Note PDF 519 KB 日本語
Tool News - Release PDF 148 KB 日本語
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Design & Development

Related Boards & Kits

Videos & Training

AI Navigator Tutorial #1 - Run AI Application

AI Navigator simplifies the process of developing and running AI applications within the e2 Studio integrated development environment. 

This video demonstrates how to install AI Navigator and import and run RZ/V AI applications. For training and converting an AI model and building an AI application, please refer to the video titled "AI Navigator Tutorial #2 - Customize AI model by Transfer Learning Tool."

Related Resources

AI Navigator Quick Start Guide

Additional Details

Features

Navigating through the simple development of AI applications

AI Navigator provides navigation through the development of AI applications via a GUI and supports the implementation of AI applications to run on Renesas devices through the shortest steps.

This tool also provides guidance on downloading and installing toolchains for use in the development of AI applications. Accordingly, you can easily construct a development environment for AI applications by installing this plugin into e² studio.

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Edge AI Development

 

Providing a variety of AI applications and AI models

You can import a variety of AI applications from AI Application Zoo provided by Renesas.

 

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Choose Category and AI Application

 

Shortening the periods for developing applications

The AI application also contain converted AI models which are executable on the target devices, so you can easily try AI applications on an evaluation board.

The executable AI models have been released as open source. Accordingly, you can use them with your own applications and thus shorten the periods for the development of AI models. 

Providing a transfer learning feature for the AI models

In combination with the transfer learning tool, AI Navigator provides a transfer learning feature for AI models in the AI applications with the use of desired datasets.

RZ/V AI transfer learning tool (TLT): https://renesas-rz.github.io/rzv_ai_sdk/latest/howto_retrain.html (GitHub)

Shortening the design processes and learning times for AI models

You can tune the AI models in the AI applications which have already been designed and learned to suit your purposes, thus shortening the design processes and learning times for AI models.

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3 AI model training

Converting the AI models into executable files that are optimized for Renesas devices

In combination with the AI model conversion tools provided by Renesas, a desired AI model can be converted into an executable format that takes advantage of the hardware accelerator on the target device.

The AI models converted into executable files that are optimized for Renesas devices achieve more lightweight model sizes and faster performance on inference.

AI Model Conversion ToolSupported Devices
DRP-AI TVMRZ/V2H, RZ/V2L, RZ/V2N
RUHMI FrameworkRA8P1