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Green Hills Software Announces New EEMBC® Scores
Power Architecture Compilers Chosen by Freescale and IBM for Certified
Performance Benchmarks
SANTA BARBARA, CA—May 22, 2007—Green Hills Software,
Inc., the technology leader in device software optimization (DSO) and real-time
operating systems (RTOS), today announced that its optimizing compilers
for the Power Architecture were
used by both Freescale and IBM for certified, published Embedded Microprocessor
Benchmark Consortium® (EEMBC) benchmark
scores on the MPC8641D and PowerPC® 750CL microprocessors. Green
Hills compilers have been chosen by microprocessor manufacturers
four times more often than other compilers to produce EEMBC published
benchmark scores for 32-bit processors.
Microprocessor manufacturers publish EEMBC benchmarks in order to showcase
the performance of their products on a wide range of real-world applications.
These benchmark results reaffirm Green Hills Software’s compiler
technology as the preferred choice for embedded developers who wish to
both maximize performance as well as minimize memory footprint and power
consumption in their designs.
“The combination of Green Hills Software’s tools and Freescale’s
MPC8641D processor provides a compelling software and hardware solution
across a wide variety of applications and industries,” said Toby
Foster, product marketing manager for MPC8641D within Freescale’s
Digital Systems Division. “The MPC8641D delivers breakthrough performance,
connectivity and integration. Its multicore design greatly benefits from
advanced software tools from Green Hills Software, that help our customers
tap into this powerful dual-core platform."
“IBM realizes that its customers are placing an ever-increasing
importance on low power consumption, and the PowerPC 750CL processor
is designed to address those concerns,” said Ron Martino, director
of Power Architecture solutions, IBM Global Engineering Solutions. “The
use of the Green Hills Software tools, which optimize memory usage, is
critical to achieving a minimum power footprint.”
"EEMBC members such as IBM and Freescale know that the choice of
compiler has a significant impact on device performance, both in real-world
applications and from a benchmark point of view, as these scores for
the PowerPC 750CL and MPC8641D show ," said Markus Levy, EEMBC president. "Our
scores will provide designers with additional objective data to help
in selecting the optimal processor for their given application."
Optimizations
The Green Hills Software tools employ thousands of machine independent
and machine dependent optimizations, including advanced techniques
such as Partial Redundancy Elimination (PRE), link-time automatic small
data area optimization and code factoring, inter-procedural optimizations,
and profile directed optimizations. The result is technology that generates
the fastest and smallest code for Power Architecture, as well as many
other microprocessors, than any other product on the market.
Reliability
The Green Hills Software tools are used to build software running the
most reliability critical systems, including aircraft engines, automotive
systems, medical devices, and high availability telecommunications
equipment. Companies like Toyota and Boeing base the reliability of
their products on the proven robustness of Green Hills Software technology.
About the Freescale MPC8641D
The MPC8641D integrates two e600 cores based on Power Architecture™ technology
running up to 1.5GHz, two memory controllers with ECC at up to 600MHz
datarate, four Ethernet controllers, a RapidIO™ fabric interface,
and dual PCI Express™ I/O interfaces. The result is a SoC with
tremendous performance density and capability.
About the IBM PowerPC 750CL
The IBM PowerPC 750CL RISC microprocessor is a 32-bit implementation
of the IBM PowerPC family and operates at speeds from 400 MHz to 1
GHz. The 750CL includes a 256KB L2 cache and is targeted at networking,
storage, imaging, consumer electronic, and other high-performance embedded
applications.
About EEMBC
EEMBC, the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, was formed in
1997 to develop meaningful performance benchmarks for the hardware
and software used in embedded systems. Through the combined efforts
of its members, EEMBC® benchmarks have become an industry standard
for evaluating the capabilities of embedded processors, compilers,
and Java implementations according to objective, clearly defined, application-based
criteria. Visit EEMBC at www.eembc.org.
Availability
Green Hills Compilers
for C, C++, and Ada are
available today for Power
Architecture, ARM, MIPS, V850, ColdFire®,
Intel® IA-32, and Blackfin.
About Green Hills Software
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc. is the technology leader
in device software optimization (DSO) and real-time operating systems
(RTOS) for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Our royalty-free INTEGRITY® and velOSity™ real-time
operating systems, µ-velOSity™ microkernel,
compilers, MULTI® and AdaMULTI™ integrated development environments
and TimeMachine™ tool suite offer a complete development solution
that addresses both deeply embedded and high-reliability applications.
Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European
headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software on the
web at www.ghs.com. Green Hills Software is an affiliate
member of the Intel® Communications Alliance, a community of communications
and embedded developers and solutions providers committed to the development
of modular, standards-based solutions on Intel technologies.
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