Renesas RZ/V2H Robot RDK

Robotic Development Kit for high-performance AI vision and robotics on the Renesas RZ/V2H MPU.

4x Cortex-A55 @ 1.8GHz | 2x Cortex-R8 @ 800MHz | 80 TOPS DRP-AI3 | 10 TOPS/W efficiency | ROS 2 Jazzy

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Overview

The Renesas RZ/V2H Robot Development Kit (WS125-V2HRDKREFZ) accelerates AI vision and robotics development on the RZ/V2H MPU. The RDK delivers up to 80 TOPS (sparse) AI inference performance via Renesas' DRP-AI3 accelerator at an industry-leading 10 TOPS/W power efficiency, alongside multi-core CPU flexibility and simultaneous multi-OS operation. The kit ships with Yocto 5.1 (Styhead) and Ubuntu 24.04 support and includes ROS 2 Jazzy for robotics workflows. Quad Cortex-A55 application cores, dual Cortex-R8 real-time cores, and a Cortex-M33 for system management unify vision AI and real-time motor/sensor control in a single platform — purpose-built for next-generation robotics, drones, and edge AI vision systems.

Specifications

Specification	Value	Notes
Application CPU	4x Arm Cortex-A55 @ 1.8GHz
Real-Time CPU	2x Arm Cortex-R8 @ 800MHz
System CPU	1x Arm Cortex-M33 @ 200MHz	FPU + DSP
AI Accelerator	DRP-AI3 (up to 80 TOPS sparse)
AI Efficiency	10 TOPS/W
Image Processing	DRP (HW-accelerated OpenCV)
GPU	Mali-G31 (select variants)
Memory	LPDDR4/DDR4
Storage	eMMC, xSPI, SD card
High-Speed I/O	PCIe, USB 3.2, 2x Gigabit Ethernet
Camera	MIPI CSI-2
Display	HDMI (via expansion board)
OS Support	Yocto 5.1 (Styhead), Ubuntu 24.04	Simultaneous multi-OS operation
Robotics Stack	ROS 2 Jazzy
Debug	Onboard JTAG, DIP switches	Flexible power architecture

Use Cases

• Robotics development and deployment with ROS 2 Jazzy and real-time motor/sensor control on the Cortex-R8 cores
• UAV/drone flight control systems combining edge AI vision with deterministic real-time control
• AI-enabled vision processing for autonomous machines, AGVs, and AMRs
• Industrial vision systems requiring hardware-accelerated OpenCV alongside neural network inference