EEMBC Publishes Benchmark Scores for Motorola PowerPC Processor

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- EEMBC, the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, today announced that the consortium has been authorized by Motorola, Inc. to publish certified EEMBC® benchmark scores for the MPC7455, the industry's first 1-GHz processor implementing the PowerPC instruction set architecture.

"The performance of Motorola's MPC7455 is tremendous," said Markus Levy, EEMBC president. "But it is equally significant that this performance has been certified according to objective, unbiased benchmarks that the majority of the microprocessor vendors in the world have agreed upon. In publicizing these scores, Motorola is helping to raise standards both for measuring processor performance and for the way embedded processors are marketed.

"All of us who have worked to make EEMBC benchmarks the industry standard are gratified at this show of confidence by the industry's largest manufacturer of embedded processors," Levy added.

Tested against 46 EEMBC benchmark "kernels," each representing a different workload and stressing a different processor capability, the MPC7455 was tested and certified across all five application areas targeted by the EEMBC benchmarks: communications, automotive/industrial, networking, consumer, and office automation.

"The MPC7455 sets new records in all five of the application areas that EEMBC benchmarks target," said Bill Dunnigan, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola's Computing Platform Division. "Beyond their sheer magnitude, the basis of these scores in real-world applications allows us to provide customers with objective, specific measures of the record- breaking performance the MPC7455 will deliver in communications, automotive/industrial, networking, consumer, and office automation systems."

Designed to be compatible with Motorola's MPC7451/MPC7450, the MPC7455 reaches speeds of 1 GHz with a core voltage of 1.6 V and includes 256 KB of on-chip L2 cache. Combining a high level of performance with efficient power consumption across virtually all speeds, the MPC7455 is intended for host processor applications including high-performance network infrastructure and telecommunications equipment, computing products, and embedded systems.

Complete details of EEMBC benchmark scores for the MPC7455 are available free at the EEMBC web site at www.eembc.org .

About EEMBC

EEMBC, the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, develops and certifies real-world benchmarks and benchmark scores to help designers select the right embedded processors for their systems. Every processor submitted for EEMBC benchmarking is tested for parameters representing different workloads and capabilities in communications, networking, consumer, office automation, automotive/industrial, embedded Java, and microcontroller-related applications. With members including leading semiconductor, intellectual property, and compiler companies, EEMBC establishes benchmark standards and provides certified benchmarking results through the EEMBC Certification Labs (ECL) in Texas and California.

EEMBC members include: Agere Systems, aJile, Altera, ARC, ARM, BOPS, Cadence, ChipWrights, DSP Group, Equator Technologies, Fujitsu Microelectronics, Green Hills Software, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi America Ltd., Improv Systems, IBM Corporation, Imsys, Infineon Technologies, Intel, LSI Logic, Metaware, Metrowerks, Microchip Technology, MIPS Technologies Inc., Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola, National Semiconductor, Nazomi Communications, NEC, Oki Semiconductor, Panasonic, Parthus, Philips Semiconductors, PMC-Sierra, Precise, Red Hat, SandCraft, STMicroelectronics, Siroyan Ltd., Sun Microsystems, 3DSP, Tensilica, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, TriMedia Technologies, Vulcan Machines, Wind River (DIAB), Xilinx, and Zucotto Wireless.

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