Renesas’ RA8P1 AI MCU combines Arm Cortex-M85 and M33 cores with the Ethos-U55 NPU, delivering AI performance up to 256 GOPs.

Two key features of note are the use of MRAM instead of flash memory and the inclusion of a 500-MHz Arm Ethos-U55 neural processing unit (NPU) (Fig. 2). This artificial-intelligence (AI) accelerator ...