EEMBC Validates DENbench Digital Entertainment Benchmark Suite With Certified Processor Scores From AMD, Analog Devices, Freescale, and IBM
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Jan. 24, 2005—
AMD, Analog Devices, Freescale and IBM today
demonstrated their support for EEMBC's new Digital Entertainment
benchmarks by becoming the first four companies to publish certified
scores for processors tested against the new DENbench(TM) suite.
Comprising more than 65 benchmark tests, EEMBC's DENbench suite
gives developers of set-top boxes, PDAs, mobile phones and in-car
entertainment systems a sophisticated new set of tools for evaluating
the performance of embedded processors in their systems. Specific
algorithms in the suite test the speed at which processors compress
and decompress audio, video and still images. Other benchmarks in the
suite focus on encryption and decryption algorithms commonly used in
e-commerce applications.
The first processors to undergo the challenges of the new
benchmarks are the Analog Devices ADSP-BF533, AMD Geode NX1500,
Freescale MPC7447A and IBM 750GX. These processors represent a wide
range of performance, power, and price characteristics and therefore
help to validate the effectiveness of DENbench.
For each processor, EEMBC reports individual results for each of
69 benchmark algorithms and associated datasets as well as a series of
consolidated scores that provide a snapshot of performance in specific
test groups, such as MPEG decode, MPEG encode (both integer and
floating-point), cryptography and still image processing. An overall
DENmark(TM) score provides a single-number performance rating for the
entire DENbench suite.
Score details for all four processors tested against the new
benchmarks are available for free at www.eembc.org.
"EEMBC's release of these new benchmarks and the publication of
these scores from AMD, ADI, Freescale and IBM is very timely given
the rapid growth of the digital entertainment market," said industry
analyst Will Strauss, founder and president of Forward Concepts.
"These benchmarks provide a comprehensive interpretation of a
processor's system performance running a wide variety of digital
entertainment code, and they have been constructed to allow
apples-to-apples comparisons among a wide range of processors."
Like other EEMBC benchmarks, the new DENbench suite works with a
proprietary test harness that allows the benchmarks to be adapted
easily to any type of microprocessor or microcontroller platform. In
addition to simplifying the test of running the benchmarks, the test
harness ensures that a standard method is used for measuring
performance and controlling the embedded processor target platform.
"Systems designers will interpret the DENbench scores being
published today depending on how they prioritize design considerations
such as speed, efficiency, power consumption and price," said Markus
Levy, EEMBC president. "The various consolidated scores that the
benchmarks produce become most useful, in fact, when used to calculate
how much a processor's performance 'costs' in terms of several
different metrics."
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(R) 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).
EEMBC's members include Altera, AMCC, AMD, Analog Devices, ARC,
ARM, Atmel, CEVA, esmertec, Freescale Semiconductor, Fujitsu
Microelectronics, General Dynamics, Green Hills Software, IAR Systems,
IBM, Imagination Technologies, Improv Systems, Infineon Technologies,
Intel, Intrinsity, IPFlex, LSI Logic, Marvell Semiconductor,
Matsushita Electric Industrial, Mentor Graphics, Metaware, MetroWerks,
MIPS Technologies, National Semiconductor, NEC Electronics, Nokia, Oki
Electric Industry, Patriot Scientific, Philips Semiconductors,
PMC-Sierra, Qualcomm, Raza Microelectronics, Red Hat, Renesas
Technology, Rockwell Collins, Sony Computer Entertainment, ST
Microelectronics, Stretch, Sun Microsystems, Symbian, Tao Group,
Tensilica, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Transmeta, VIA Technologies,
and Wind River Systems.
DENbench and DENmark are trademarks and EEMBC is a registered
trademark of the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium. All
other trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective
owners.
Contact:
EEMBC, El Dorado Hills
Markus Levy, 530-672-9113
Fax: 530-672-9439
markus@eembc.org
or
Wall Street Communications
Bob Decker, 415-409-0233
Fax: 650-618-1512
bob.decker@wallstcom.com
