El Dorado Hills, CA — (press release excerpt) — in an effort to allow users of embedded microprocessors and DSPs to make quicker, informed comparisons between devices, EEMBC, the embedded microprocessor benchmark
consortium, today announced that it will begin publishing certified, consolidated benchmark scores for processor performance in five application areas: networks, telecom, consumer, office… equipment, and automotive.

Until now, EEMBC benchmark scores were available only as a series of individual algorithms that required detailed analysis to be interpreted. While EEMBC will continue to publish detailed benchmark results for embedded processors under each of these applications, the availability of new single-number scores will enhance the presentation of comparative data on processor performance, allowing EEMBC to also serve as a more powerful sales and marketing tool.

“By instituting these new consolidated scores, EEMBC is responding to the need of its member companies to provide a more easily comprehended, high-level benchmark score, but one which still allows a meaningful basis for comparison between processors, and which is grounded in real-world application areas,” said Markus Levy, EEMBC President. “The detailed individual scores, which will be published as always on the EEMBC web site, will continue to offer the highest value to system designers, allowing comparison of the individual algorithms that are specific to their applications.”

EEMBC's full suite of benchmark scores, which are posted at www.eembc.org, specify over 40 different benchmark parameters, each representing a different workload and stressing a different processor capability. Beginning immediately, all new embedded processors submitted for EEMBC certification will also receive an aggregate Netmark, Telemark, Comsumermark, Officemark, or Automark consolidated score from the EEMBC Certification Laboratories (ECL, www.ebenchmarks.com), which will be published along with individual benchmarks on the EEMBC web site. Aggregate scores will be available both for production silicon devices and for simulator-based scores for pre-production silicon and intellectual property cores.

EEMBC members include Altera, AMD, ARC, ARM, Analog Devices Inc., ATI Technologies, BOPS, Cadence, Conexant Systems, DSP Group, Equator Technologies, Flex Silicon, Fujitsu Microelectronics, Green Hills Software, Hitachi America Ltd., Improv Systems, IBM Corporation, Imsys, Infineon Technologies, Integrated Device Technology, Intel, LSI Logic, Lucent, Metaware, Metrowerks, Microchip Technology, MIPS Technologies Inc., Mitsubishi, Motorola, National Semiconductor, NEC, Oki Semiconductor, Panasonic, Philips, Precise Software, QED, SandCraft, STMicroelectronics, Siroyan Ltd., Sun Microsystems, 3DSP, Tensilica, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Transmeta, Trimedia, and Wind River (DIAB).

 
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