EEMBC Posts New Benchmark Scores for Five Motorola Processors

Publication Event Heralds New Milestone in Industry Drive for Objective Performance Measures

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.—June 22, 2002—In the largest single benchmark score publishing event since its founding five years ago, the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium today announced that Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) has greenlighted publication of EEMBC® benchmark scores for five of its most popular PowerPC microprocessors.

Adding 24 new score reports to the 130+ already available for free on the EEMBC web site, the Motorola devices tested and certified by the EEMBC Certification Labs (ECL) include the MPC755, MPC603e, MPC8245, and MPC7400. All four processors were tested against EEMBC’s telecomm, networking, consumer, industrial/automotive, and office automation benchmark suites, with out-of-the-box scores offering designers an unprecedented opportunity to compare PowerPC device performance in specific applications according to objective, real-world criteria.

Additionally, Motorola’s MPC7455 was tested against EEMBC’s telecomm and networking benchmark suites, providing both out-of-the-box and optimized benchmark scores and demonstrating the single-instruction-multiple-data (SIMD) capabilities of Motorola’s AltiVec™ architecture. To generate these benchmark scores, Motorola used a variety of compilers including Green Hills Software, Metaware, Metrowerks, and Wind River Diab.

“Motorola is making an enormous contribution to the embedded industry by making benchmark scores available that will allow designers to compare the performance of such a wide range of PowerPC devices and compilers,” said Markus Levy, EEMBC president. “The ability to evaluate device performance according to objective criteria is becoming increasingly important for design decisions in our industry. As one of the industry’s largest manufacturers of embedded microprocessors, it is gratifying to see the leadership role taken by Motorola in making this a standard way of doing business by allowing us to make its scores public on the EEMBC web site and by including EEMBC scores in its product documentation and collateral.”

“EEMBC benchmark scores are useful in Motorola’s embedded microprocessor marketing activities,” said Glenn Beck, director of marketing for Motorola’s Computing Platforms Division. “EEMBC provides market-specific code that we can use to measure and showcase the performance of our microprocessors in applications like high-end routers and wireless base stations. We applied the C language AltiVec™ programming model to the telecommunications and networking benchmarks in accordance with EEMBC rules for optimizing results. Then, any PowerPC ISA compiler can achieve a 3-4X speed-up with AltiVec -- a benefit that our customers are seeing in real world applications.”

Direct links to all 24 new benchmark score reports on the Motorola devices are available now for free on the home page of the EEMBC web site at www.eembc.org.

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