Introduction

This page is for the Renesas RZ/G family of embedded SoCs. The main goal is to make the information about RZ/G SoCs friendly, easy to access for embedded developers.

The links below can be used to get familiar with Renesas RZ/G SoC

Introductory Guide to the RZ MPU Family

Detailed information regarding RZ/G SoCs (including roadmap, technical and marketing documents, BSPs and middleware) can be obtained directly from a Renesas representative.

Boards

Here is the list of available Renesas Evaluation Boards and Commercial SOM Boards and Partner Solutions.

These board pages contain instructions for downloading and building the BSP and other useful information.

RZ/G2 Series Evaluation Boards

Please visit the Renesas website for a Evaluation boards. 📌 Renesas Evaluation Boards Website

Support Pages
◼ RZ/G2L SMARC by Renesas	◼ RZ/G2E EK874 by Silicon Linux	◼ RZ/G2N,/G2M,/G2H HiHope by HopeRun

RZ/G2 Commercial Boards

Please visit the Renesas website for a list SOM boards provided by Renesas partner companies. 📌 Renesas RZ Partner Ecosystem Solutions Website.
RZ/G2E i.Core EDIMM SOM by Engicam : Helpful Hints Page...

RZ/G1 Series Evaluation Boards

RZ/G1 Evaluation boards are available from partner company iWave Systems Technologies
Please refer to the "Boards & Kits" section on this page

Software and Documentation

📜 Official Renesas Online Documentation (link)

Highlights

📄 Platform | RZ/G2 Group Linux BSP Porting Guide (PDF) - How to modify the Renesas BSP to match your board

📄 Verified Linux packages | Linux Interface Specification Yocto recipe Start-Up Guide (PDF) - Building with Yocto, programming boot loaders and BSP Memory Map

📄 Verified Linux packages | RZ/G2 Group BSP Manual Set (PDF) - Information about BSP device drivers and Device Tree configurations. It also contains information regarding GStreamer and Wayland.

📄 Application Notes/Other | RZ/G2 Trusted Execution Environment Start-Up Guide (PDF) - Using ARM TrustZone and OP-TEE (Open Portable Trusted Execution Environment)

📦 RZ/G2 Linux BSP (link) support page

Third Party Vendors

Altia

Altia GUI Development environment is supported for RZ/G2L

Visita https://altia.com/rzg2l for more information

Demonstration videos can be found here: RZ/G2 Demo Videos

Topics

📦 RZ/G2 Linux BSP	📇 Yocto (Common issues, suggestions, examples)	🎛️ Hardware Peripherals (DDR, Clocks, Timers, etc..)
📷 Camera	🎨 Graphics (Qt, video encode/decode)	🖼️ Wayland/Weston (Helpful hints about running Weston with RZ/G)
🐧 Kernel (Dynamic Power, drivers, peripherals, etc..)	🔑 ARM Trusted Firmware	🥾 u-boot
🌳 Device Tree	🚧 RZ/G2 Linux BSP Porting (Hints on porting to a new board)	♻️ BSP Kernel Update (Instructions to update your kernel)
🐛 Debugging	🧠 AI and ML	GStreamer
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