Japanese electronics giant Renesas has introduced a free version of its Reality AI Tools software for developing AI and TinyML industrial, automotive and commercial applications.

The Reality AI Explorer Tier provides users with free access to a comprehensive, self-guided evaluation sandbox. Qualified customers can now access the complete range of features in Reality AI Tools, including automated AI model construction, validation and deployment modules.

Reality AI Explorer Tier includes a library of tutorials, application examples and FAQs, access to the community forum, and email support. Users can quickly get started with a simplified click-through end user agreement.

It is designed to simplify the customer experience for evaluating the development environment for embedded real-time analytics. Users can explore a variety of pre-built AI applications, offering a practical way to experience the capabilities of Reality AI Tools without the need for extensive setup or support. Examples let the user leverage Renesas Kits such as AI Kits with sample datasets that span use cases across accelerometry and vibration analysis, audio classification, and motor control.

“As AIoT becomes increasingly important, many customers are showing keen interest and developing expertise in building AI applications at the edge and endpoint,” said Mohammed Dogar, Renesas (www.renesas.com) vice president. “Reality AI Explorer offers the opportunity to experience the full potential of a market-leading AI development environment without any up-front cost. We are confident that many customers will use this platform as a first step to creating production AIoT implementations.”

Kilian von Neumann-Cosel, head of Brose Silicon Valley (www.brose.com), added: “We have used Reality AI Tools extensively to deploy extremely cost-efficient AI for automated quality assurance applications. We envision enabling a variety of embedded sensing applications through this powerful AI and ML development.”

Reality AI Tools (www.renesas.com/us/en/software-tool/reality-ai-tools) is now integrated with Renesas compute products and supports all Renesas MCUs and MPUs natively with a built-in parts picker engine. Support for automatic context switching between Reality AI Tools and e² Studio, Renesas’ flagship embedded development environment, is also in place.

More information about Renesas AI is available at renesas.com/reality-ai.