ARIES Embedded has unveiled the FIVEberry 64-bit RISC-V community board for fast prototyping fitted with an OSM-compatible MSRZFive system-in-package (SiP) powered by a 1GHz Renesas RZ/Five microprocessor.
The board is equipped with a module with 512 DDR4, a 128MBit SPI NOR flash, a microSD card on the bottom of the board, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, two USB 2.0 ports, a micro USB port for serial console, and a JTAG header for further debugging, as well as a 40-pin GPIO header for expansion.
FIVEberry specifications:
- SoM – ARIES Embedded MSRZFive-A0A system-on-module
- SoC – Renesas RZ/Five R9A07G043F01GBG single-core RISC-V AX45MP processor @ to 1.0 GHz
- System Memory – 512MB DDR4 RAM
- Storage – 128Mbit SPI NOR flash
- 332 contacts as per OSM Size-S specifications
- Storage – MicroSD card slot
- Networking – 2x Gigabit Ethernet ports
- USB – 1x USB 2.0 host port, 1x micro USB 2.0 OTG port
- Expansion – 40-pin GPIO header with 2x I2C, 2x CAN bus, dual A/D converter modules
- Debugging – Micro USB port for serial console (via CP2102N), 10-pin JTAG header
- Power Supply – 5V via USB Type-C port
- Dimensions – 85 x 56mm
- Temperature Range – -25°…+85°C
ARIES Embedded will provide a Yocto Linux BSP for the board and says it’s well-suited for entry-class social infrastructure gateway control and industrial gateway control. The company highlights the system-on-module offers a parallel LCD interface, a MIPI CSI camera input, and two CAN-FD interfaces, but their description of the 40-pin GPIO header is as clear as mud with two I2C and “GPIOs”, so I’m not sure whether all those can be accessed on the GPIO header, or only a subset as listed in the specifications.
One of the reasons for the limited level of detail is that the FIVEberry RISC-V SBC will only be available in Q3 2023 at a yet-to-be-determined price. [Update: it is listed for 119.00 Euros ex VAT and shipping on the company’s store, see comments section]. More details may be found on the product page.
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
The price will condition its success. The specs are too limited for most applications but it can indeed serve as a tiny gateway or firewall, provided the single core at 1 GHz manages to deliver accordingly… In the ARM world, a single-core 1 GHz is the BreadBee to give a comparison. We’ll see.
Detail level is not limited. 120 EUR + Shipping and VAT, see price in the web shop: https://shop.aries-embedded.de/evaluation-kit/m/fiveberry
A detailed spec is also available there also, 2k pages of SoC docs are available from the Renesas web site.
I can only see an animation with wind turbines, a train. etc… on that page, and nothing else.
That must be a 404 page. Putting a slash at the end fixes it for me.
shop.aries-embedded.de/evaluation-kit/m/fiveberry/
thanks but too expensive for anything – maybe some enthusiasts will hit the buy button but I expect a quick EOL for it
Indeed, as I said above, the price will condition its success 🙂
120 euroes is death.
I think that everyone here on this site will agree on this 🙂
Well there was a time I bought an avr32 board for 145 plus a crazy amount of postal fees for import and VAT handling…
I never used this board for anything, as as soon as I found a use case for it it was EOL…
Just recently saw it in the basement in it’s original box.
For makers, maybe. I still expect the major target market to be industrial, which is a very different market from maker/enthusiast.
After knowing the price is looks like you are right. But the press release I received by email reads “ARIES Embedded Launches a ‘Community-Flavor-Board’ for Quick Project Entry and Fast Prototyping Based on OSM-compatible MSRZFive SiP with RZ/Five Microprocessor from Renesas”
Indeed, and I’m hardly seeing an industrial device of that price use an “exotic” ecosystem like this. I mean, if you just need a single-code 1 GHz CPU for industrial apps, just buy a beaglebone and you will have an extremely well supported device, whose architecture and ecosystem have been adapted, fixed and tested by a wide community for more than a decade. I would trust that much more for an industrial project than a $random new board with a bleeding edge arch and a proprietary BSP kernel.
Thanks