CodeSourcery, GNU Toolchain Developer, Is Newest EEMBC Member

Aims to use EEMBC benchmarks as a tool to improve GCC compiler performance

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.—Oct. 31, 2005 —The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) today announced that its newest member is CodeSourcery, a provider of development tools, software test solutions, and custom software development services for semiconductor and operating system vendors.

"As a leading developer of the popular GNU Toolchain, we're interested in making definitive improvements in performance on the kind of code that our customers run every day,” said Mark Mitchell, President and Chief Sourcerer of CodeSourcery. “Our customers -- many of whom are also EEMBC members -- have made it clear that the EEMBC benchmarks are one of the key metrics they use when evaluating compilers. We're very excited to be joining the EEMBC community and look forward to further improving our products and services by using this powerful tool."

EEMBC benchmark software is an industry-standard tool for evaluating the capabilities of embedded processors, compilers, and the systems that they are designed into. Using objective, clearly defined, application-based criteria, EEMBC benchmarks replicate real-world applications along with the workloads that processors encounter in embedded environments, which range from automobiles to Java-enabled mobile phones.

Granite Bay, Calif.-based CodeSourcery counts several Fortune 500 companies, as well as the United States Government, among the customers for its high-quality tools and consulting services. Its products and services include support and optimization for Sourcery G++, CodeSourcery’s version of the GNU Toolchain, Sourcery VSIPL++, an open-source high-performance signal- and image-processing toolkit, and QMTest, an open-source test automation solution.

“We welcome CodeSourcery as a new third-party tool member of EEMBC, and it is gratifying in particular to know that CodeSourcery was encouraged by a customer to use EEMBC benchmarks as an important way to measure and validate performance improvements for embedded users,” said EEMBC President Markus Levy. “This is concrete evidence of EEMBC’s proliferation as the industry standard for objective measurements of processor and compiler performance and something our members have worked hard to achieve.”