I always cast a wary eye towards new Renesas parts.
I got burned on the RZ/A line. It was a promising part. Low cost Cortex-A9 with DRAM on the die that could run Linux XIP off of the SoC when combined with a cheap QSPI NOR flash.
But the software was just undercooked and undersupported. When I could finally get an FAE in house to assist he explained that the Mitsu and Hitachi houses still didn't get along and it was nearly impossible to get stateside assistance. There was one single person in the USA responsible for Linux BSP support.
So yeah nice hardware but no, don't count on the software to be there on time.
I got burned on the RZ/A line. It was a promising part. Low cost Cortex-A9 with DRAM on the die that could run Linux XIP off of the SoC when combined with a cheap QSPI NOR flash.
But the software was just undercooked and undersupported. When I could finally get an FAE in house to assist he explained that the Mitsu and Hitachi houses still didn't get along and it was nearly impossible to get stateside assistance. There was one single person in the USA responsible for Linux BSP support.
So yeah nice hardware but no, don't count on the software to be there on time.