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Renesas RZ/G AI BSP v5.2.0

08 Jul 20:21
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Change log:

  • Upgraded all platforms to use the RZ/G BSP tag BSP-3.0.6-update2
  • Upgraded TensorFlow Lite version to v2.15.1
  • Upgraded ArmNN version to v24.05
  • Upgraded Arm Compute library version to v24.06
  • Improved the armnn-benchmark application so that it runs benchmarks on models specified in a configuration file instead of a hard-coded list in the application
  • Enabled FP16 turbo mode by default when benchmarking with the tfLiteDelegateBenchmark application for Arm Cortex-A55 devices
  • Various CI improvements
  • Various code improvements and bug fixes

Supported AI tools:

  • Arm Neural Network SDK v24.05 / Arm Compute Library v24.06
  • ONNX Runtime v1.8.0
  • TensorFlow Lite v2.15.1

Supported Platforms:

  • Renesas RZ/G2H hihope-rzg2h
  • Renesas RZ/G2M hihope-rzg2m
  • Renesas RZ/G2N hihope-rzg2n
  • Renesas RZ/G2E ek874
  • Renesas RZ/G2L smarc-rzg2l
  • Renesas RZ/G2LC smarc-rzg2lc
  • Renesas RZ/G2UL smarc-rzg2ul
  • Renesas RZ/V2L smarc-rzv2l

For all platforms use meta-renesas tag BSP-3.0.6-update2.

Renesas RZ/G AI BSP v5.1.0

09 Oct 10:21
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Change log:

  • Upgraded all platforms to use the RZ/G BSP tag BSP-3.0.4
  • Added support for TensorFlow Lite Python bindings
  • Added support for the RZ/V2L smarc-rzv2l EVK platform
  • Changed architecture optimisations for the RZ/G2L family of devices when using the ArmNN framework. This has shown inference performance improvements of 50-60% when using float32 image recognition models
  • Structural improvements to the AI framework recipes to better split out benchmarking support
  • Various CI improvements
  • Various code improvements and bug fixes

Supported AI tools:

  • Arm Neural Network SDK / Arm Compute Library v22.02
  • ONNX Runtime v1.8.0
  • TensorFlow Lite v2.5.3

Supported Platforms:

  • Renesas RZ/G2H hihope-rzg2h
  • Renesas RZ/G2M hihope-rzg2m
  • Renesas RZ/G2N hihope-rzg2n
  • Renesas RZ/G2E ek874
  • Renesas RZ/G2L smarc-rzg2l
  • Renesas RZ/G2LC smarc-rzg2lc
  • Renesas RZ/G2UL smarc-rzg2ul
  • Renesas RZ/V2L smarc-rzv2l

For all platforms use meta-renesas tag BSP-3.0.4.

Renesas RZ/G AI BSP v5.0.0

28 Jul 21:29
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Change log:

  • Upgraded all platforms to use the new "unified" meta-renesas BSP, BSP-3.0.0
  • All platforms now use the same versions of all frameworks and dependencies
  • All CI build and test scripts are now included in meta-renesas-ai
  • The same Yocto configuration templates are now used for all platforms, configured by the set-config-files.sh script
  • Various code improvements and bug fixes

Supported AI tools:

  • Arm Neural Network SDK / Arm Compute Library v22.02
  • ONNX Runtime v1.8.0
  • TensorFlow Lite v2.5.3

Supported Platforms:

  • Renesas RZ/G2H hihope-rzg2h
  • Renesas RZ/G2M hihope-rzg2m
  • Renesas RZ/G2N hihope-rzg2n
  • Renesas RZ/G2E ek874
  • Renesas RZ/G2L smarc-rzg2l
  • Renesas RZ/G2LC smarc-rzg2lc
  • Renesas RZ/G2UL smarc-rzg2ul

For all platforms use meta-renesas tag BSP-3.0.0.

Renesas RZ/G AI BSP v4.7.0

29 Mar 10:13
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Change log:

  • Upgraded base Renesas RZ/G2L BSP to tag rzg2l_bsp_v1.4
  • Added RZ/G2UL smarc-rzg2ul support
  • Added support for ArmNN / Arm Compute Library v22.02
  • Improved TFLite delegate testing application to support both XNNPACK and ArmNN delegates
  • Various code improvements and bug fixes

Supported AI tools:

  • Arm Neural Network SDK / Arm Compute Library v22.02, v21.05
  • ONNX Runtime v1.8.0
  • TensorFlow Lite v2.5.3, v2.3.1

Supported Platforms:

  • Renesas RZ/G2H hihope-rzg2h
  • Renesas RZ/G2M hihope-rzg2m
  • Renesas RZ/G2N hihope-rzg2n
  • Renesas RZ/G2E ek874
  • Renesas RZ/G2L smarc-rzg2l
  • Renesas RZ/G2LC smarc-rzg2lc
  • Renesas RZ/G2UL smarc-rzg2ul

For RZ/G2 platforms use meta-rzg2 tag BSP-1.0.10-update1.
For RZ/G2L platforms use meta-rzg2 tag rzg2l_bsp_v1.4.

Renesas RZ/G AI BSP v4.6.0

28 Feb 13:58
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Change log:

  • Upgraded base Renesas RZ/G2L BSP to tag rzg2l_bsp_v1.3-update2
  • Upgraded base Renesas RZ/G2 BSP to tag BSP-1.0.10-update1
  • Added support for TensorFlow Lite v2.5.3
  • Added XNNPACK support for TensorFlow Lite on the RZ/G2L family of platforms
  • Dropped support for RZ/G1 platforms
  • Various code improvements and bug fixes

Supported AI tools:

  • Arm Neural Network SDK / Arm Compute Library v21.05
  • ONNX Runtime v1.8.0
  • TensorFlow Lite v2.5.3, v2.3.1

Supported Platforms:

  • Renesas RZ/G2H hihope-rzg2h
  • Renesas RZ/G2M hihope-rzg2m
  • Renesas RZ/G2N hihope-rzg2n
  • Renesas RZ/G2E ek874
  • Renesas RZ/G2L rzg2l-smarc evk
  • Renesas RZ/G2LC rzg2lc-smarc evk

For RZ/G2 platforms use meta-rzg2 tag BSP-1.0.10-update1.
For RZ/G2L platforms use meta-rzg2 tag rzg2l_bsp_v1.3-update2.

Renesas RZ/G AI BSP v4.5.0

17 Dec 10:42
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Change log:

  • Upgrade base Renesas RZ/G2L BSP to tag rzg2l_bsp_v1.3-update1
  • Add Renesas RZ/G2LC rzg2lc-smarc evk support
  • Add ArmNN Mali GPU support for RZ/G2L and RZ/G2LC

Supported AI tools:

  • Arm Neural Network SDK v21.05
  • ONNX Runtime v1.8.0
  • TensorFlow Lite v2.3.1

Supported Platforms:

  • Renesas RZ/G2H hihope-rzg2h
  • Renesas RZ/G2M hihope-rzg2m
  • Renesas RZ/G2N hihope-rzg2n
  • Renesas RZ/G2E ek874
  • Renesas RZ/G2L rzg2l-smarc evk
  • Renesas RZ/G2LC rzg2lc-smarc evk
  • Renesas RZ/G1H iwg21m
  • Renesas RZ/G1M iwg20m-g1m
  • Renesas RZ/G1E iwg22m

For RZ/G1 platforms use meta-renesas tag certified-linux-v2.1.9.
For RZ/G2 platforms use meta-rzg2 tag BSP-1.0.8.
For the RZ/G2L platform use meta-rzg2 tag rzg2l_bsp_v1.3-update1.

Renesas RZ/G AI BSP v4.4.0

11 Nov 10:25
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Change log:

  • Upgrade base Renesas RZ/G1 BSP to tag certified-linux-v2.1.9
  • Upgrade base Renesas RZ/G2 BSP to tag BSP-1.0.8
  • Upgrade base Renesas RZ/G2L BSP to tag rzg2l_bsp_v1.3
  • Drop GCC v7.3 (meta-rzg1-gcc-linaro) support for RZ/G1 devices
  • Improve sample build script
  • Add ArmNN delegate header files to dev package
  • Correct MobileNet v3 model data types in meta-benchmark/armnn

Supported AI tools:

  • Arm Neural Network SDK v21.05
  • ONNX Runtime v1.8.0
  • TensorFlow Lite v2.3.1

Supported Platforms:

  • Renesas RZ/G2H hihope-rzg2h
  • Renesas RZ/G2M hihope-rzg2m
  • Renesas RZ/G2N hihope-rzg2n
  • Renesas RZ/G2E ek874
  • Renesas RZ/G2L rzg2l-smarc evk
  • Renesas RZ/G1H iwg21m
  • Renesas RZ/G1M iwg20m-g1m
  • Renesas RZ/G1E iwg22m

For RZ/G1 platforms use meta-renesas tag certified-linux-v2.1.9.
For RZ/G2 platforms use meta-rzg2 tag BSP-1.0.8.
For the RZ/G2L platform use meta-rzg2 tag rzg2l_bsp_v1.3.

Renesas RZ/G AI BSP v4.3.0

26 Jul 10:42
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Main features of this release:

  • Upgrade ArmNN SDK to v21.05
  • Add ONNX Runtime support for the Renesas RZ/G2L rzg2l-smarc evk platform
  • Reduce the number of supported frameworks
  • Other improvements and minor fixes

Supported AI tools:

  • Arm Neural Network SDK v21.05
  • ONNX Runtime v1.8.0
  • TensorFlow Lite v2.3.1

Supported Platforms:

  • Renesas RZ/G2H hihope-rzg2h
  • Renesas RZ/G2M hihope-rzg2m
  • Renesas RZ/G2N hihope-rzg2n
  • Renesas RZ/G2E ek874
  • Renesas RZ/G2L rzg2l-smarc evk
  • Renesas RZ/G1H iwg21m
  • Renesas RZ/G1M iwg20m-g1m
  • Renesas RZ/G1E iwg22m

For RZ/G1 platforms use meta-renesas tag certified-linux-v2.1.8.
For RZ/G2 platforms use meta-rzg2 tag BSP-1.0.7.
For the RZ/G2L platform use meta-rzg2 branch dunfell/rzg2l commit 2313d60eb75e5c86ce3e42ad378c8473f8e95c88.

Renesas RZ/G AI BSP v4.2.0

28 Jun 09:34
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Main features of this release:

  • Upgrade ONNX Runtime to v1.8.0
  • Add support for the Renesas RZ/G2L rzg2l-smarc evk platform for the ArmNN and TensorFlow Lite frameworks
  • Improved various benchmarking applications
  • Other improvements and minor fixes

Supported AI tools:

  • Arm Neural Network SDK v21.02
  • Caffe2 v0.8.1
  • Google Coral USB TPU (frogfish)
  • ONNX Runtime v1.8.0
  • OpenCV v4.1.1
  • PyTorch v1.5.1
  • TensorFlow v2.3.1
  • TensorFlow Lite v2.3.1

Supported Platforms:

  • Renesas RZ/G2H hihope-rzg2h
  • Renesas RZ/G2M hihope-rzg2m
  • Renesas RZ/G2N hihope-rzg2n
  • Renesas RZ/G2E ek874
  • Renesas RZ/G2L rzg2l-smarc evk
  • Renesas RZ/G1H iwg21m
  • Renesas RZ/G1M iwg20m-g1m
  • Renesas RZ/G1E iwg22m

For RZ/G1 platforms use meta-renesas tag certified-linux-v2.1.8.
For RZ/G2 platforms use meta-rzg2 tag BSP-1.0.7.
For the RZ/G2L platform use meta-rzg2 branch dunfell/rzg2l commit 2313d60eb75e5c86ce3e42ad378c8473f8e95c88.

Renesas RZ/G AI BSP v4.1.0

11 May 12:57
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Main features of this release:

  • Upgrade ArmNN SDK and Arm Compute Library to v21.02
  • Add support and sample application for ArmNN TfLite Delegate
  • Add support in armnnBenchmark sample application for ArmNN 'fp16-turbo' and 'fast-math' modes
  • Add ability to set the compute backend in the armnnBenchmark sample application
  • Upgrade base Renesas RZ/G1 BSP to tag certified-linux-v2.1.8
  • Upgrade base Renesas RZ/G2 BSP to tag BSP-1.0.7
  • Changed the configuration schema in meta-benchmarks. Sample configuration templates are now provided per platform for two builds:
    • armnn+coral+tf+tfl
    • caffe2+onnx+opencv+pytorch
  • Other improvements and minor fixes

Supported AI tools:

  • Arm Neural Network SDK v21.02
  • Caffe2 v0.8.1
  • Google Coral USB TPU (frogfish)
  • ONNX Runtime v1.1.2
  • OpenCV v4.1.1
  • PyTorch v1.5.1
  • TensorFlow v2.3.1
  • TensorFlow Lite v2.3.1

Supported Platforms:

  • Renesas RZ/G2H hihope-rzg2h
  • Renesas RZ/G2M hihope-rzg2m
  • Renesas RZ/G2N hihope-rzg2n
  • Renesas RZ/G2E ek874
  • Renesas RZ/G1H iwg21m
  • Renesas RZ/G1M iwg20m-g1m
  • Renesas RZ/G1E iwg22m

For RZ/G1 platforms use meta-renesas tag certified-linux-v2.1.8.
For RZ/G2 platforms use meta-rzg2 tag BSP-1.0.7.