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EEMBC JOURNAL

NEWS FROM EMBEDDED MICROPROCESSOR BENCHMARK CONSORTIUM

www.eembc.org

WINTER 2002

Letter from the President: Growth on a solid foundation

When EEMBC was formed five years ago, the embedded world was a simpler place. Most embedded processors were general-purpose devices intended for a wide range of applications. The 46 benchmark kernels constituting the Version 1.0 EEMBC benchmarks, grouped into five application-related suites, were sufficient to measure the performance of any processor on the market and to provide an unprecedented representation of the "real-world" conditions under which these devices would operate.

Nowadays the industry is moving away from general-purpose processors to application-specific processing, and the processors' range of applications is growing to include tasks like VoIP, Java games and productivity tools, and video compression that were still in their infancy at EEMBC's inception.

It is more obvious now than even before EEMBC took the right steps in its real-world, application-focused approach to embedded microprocessor benchmarking. We started off with a foundation of core benchmarks (and 12 members) and now these are evolving into a more comprehensive structure (and 50 members) in which our Version 2.0 benchmarks will exercise more aspects of the processor and the interaction of the system with the processor. Furthermore, the use of an official validation process enabled by the EEMBC Certification Labs (ECL) has allowed EEMBC to maintain the highest level of credibility.

Microprocessors require a higher level of complexity to accomplish more specialized tasks, and the same is true of an organization that is concerned with benchmarking them. For this reason, EEMBC is organizing the development and rollout of its Version 2.0 benchmarks around a system of subcommittees, each of which is focused on a specific application area: telecommunications, consumer, embedded Java, networking, office automation, and 8/16-bit microcontrollers.

Heading up these subcommittees is a group of dedicated members of the EEMBC community, each of whom combines considerable experience in the development of embedded processors for the specific application that is the subcommittee's focus. These individuals also share a passion for making industry-standard benchmarks part of the way all processors are evaluated and marketed.

Please join me in congratulating them in their new roles as EEMBC subcommittee chairpersons as EEMBC moves forward to keep pace and evolve with the latest developments in the embedded industry.

-- Markus Levy


EEMBC's New Subcommittee Chairpersons

8-/16-bit Microcontrollers: David Lamar, NEC Electronics
Telecommunications: Sergei Larin, BOPS, Inc.
Consumer: Alan Weiss, EEMBC Certification Laboratories, LLC
Embedded Java: Rod Crawford, ARM Ltd.
Networking: Bill Bryant, Sun Microsystems
Office Automation: Ron Olson, IBM Microelectronics

Motorola Takes PowerPC Processor To Market with Certified EEMBC Scores
In the latest example of growing industry support for EEMBC, Motorola, Inc. made availability of EEMBC benchmark scores a significant part of the news when it launched its new MPC7455 1-GHz processor on January 30.
"Demonstrating the capability of the MPC7455 to serve the processing needs of a variety of market segments, Motorola has benchmarked its 1 GHz MPC7455 processor in five different application areas using EEMBC's out-of-the-box certification type: automotive/industrial, consumer, networking, office automation, and telecommunications," Motorola stated in its widely distributed press release.
The MPC7455 achieved the highest out-of-the-box benchmark scores certified by EEMBC to date in all five application areas: 889.3 Automarks, 122.6 for Consumermarks, 30.4 Netmarks, 1238.6 OAmarks, and 27.2 Telemarks.
"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. "
Complete details of EEMBC benchmark scores for the MPC7455 are available free at the EEMBC web site at www.eembc.org.

How ARM Built the ARM1026EJ-S(tm): Synthesizable Core
Among the many first public disclosures planned for this year's Embedded Processor Forum (April 29 through May 2 in San Jose) will be product details of the first processor to be designed by ARM Ltd. using EEMBC benchmarks for performance profiling and tuning the architecture. The new ARM1026EJ-S, latest addition to the ARM10E(tm) family of processors, includes a 6-stage pipeline, 64-bit internal/external interfaces, an enhanced coprocessor interface, static branch prediction, and parallel functional units with out of order completion. To sign up for EPF, visit www.mdronline.com/epf.

Embedded Java will be the topic of EEMBC conference presentations at Embedded Intelligence 2002, Wireless Systems Design Conference and Expo, and JavaOne Conference 2002.
"Performance, Power and System Considerations in Embedded JAVA Applications." To be presented by Markus Levy at Embedded Intelligence 2002 in Nuremburg, Germany on February 19 at 10 a.m. Further information: http://www.elektroniknet.de/design&elektronik/emb2002.
"Evaluating the performance of embedded Java in wireless systems." To be presented by Markus Levy at Wireless Systems Design Conference and Expo, San Jose, February 26, at 1:30 p.m. Further information: http://www.wirelessportable.com/
"Architecting Hardware and Software for Embedded Java." A business sessions panel discussion at JavaOne Conference 2002 featuring presentations by Markus Levy and EEMBC members Zucotto Wireless, ARM, and Intel. Additional presenters include representatives from JAMDAT Mobile Inc. and Research in Motion. Tuesday March 26, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Ralston Room at the Sheraton Palace in San Francisco. Further information: http://java.sun.com/javaone.

See EEMBC at Embedded Systems 2002, Embedded Systems Conference West, and Embedded Processor Forum
EEMBC's first trade show appearance this year will be at Embedded Systems 2002 in Nuremburg, Germany, where consortium member Green Hills Software will host an EEMBC display at its booth. The show takes place February 19 through 21; you'll find Green Hills Software in Hall 12, Aisle L09. Additional show information can be found at http://www.embedded-systems-messe.de.
At this year's Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, EEMBC's exhibit will feature special demonstrations by Infineon Technologies and NEC Electronics. See it all at booth 4557 at Moscone Center, March 13-15. More information is available at http://www.esconline.com/sf/.
EEMBC's final conference appearance this Spring will take place at the Embedded Processor Forum Expo, being held on the night of April 30. The embedded industry's most important week of the year, EPF 2002 will run April 29 through May 2 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. Focused exclusively on microprocessors and related hardware technologies that are driving the embedded industry, the forum is the most important place in the industry to present and hear new chip announcements. Further information is available at http://www.mdronline.com/epf.


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