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Deadline approaching: Call for Papers - Workshop Benchmarking Embedded Processors and Systems
Programmer Job Opportunity at EEMBC
New CoreMark™ Scores - Download nearing 6000
Upcoming Events
New Members & Recent News

EEMBC Hosted Workshop on Benchmarking Embedded Processors and Systems
Call for Papers Deadline: December 9th

EEMBC will host a one-day workshop, “Benchmark Methods to Analyze Embedded Processors and Systems (BMAEPS), in conjunction with the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) and SPEC. The workshop takes place on April 22, 2012 in Boston and will focus on the use of benchmarks, providing a forum for researchers and industry to discuss issues related to performance and energy analysis of systems and processors. Call for papers is open until December 9, 2011. Contact me directly if you have any cool ideas for a paper proposal.

Programmer Job Opportunity at EEMBC

We’re looking for an intern or contractor who wants a part-time, flexible-hours job to help us with benchmark code development (in C). This is a 3-6 month project working with many different embedded processors and development tools. This role requires a programmer familiar with C, make, perl and bash scripting. Knowing sed and experience with embedded development tools is an advantage. This programmer will work with embedded development tools and write C code and scripts which we will use in our industry-standard benchmarks. A great opportunity for an intern to learn about real life challenges of embedded programming (limited code size, portability, and more), and about standards and benchmarks. Programmer will work with our director of technology, Shay Gal-On.

New CoreMark™ Scores - Downloads Nearing 6000

With CoreMark™ downloads nearing 6000, the benchmark is clearly on a path to replace the infamous Dhrystone benchmark. We will soon be announcing a contest in which you could win prizes worth $millions, if not $hundreds, for describing how you have utilized this popular benchmark. (Secret information: we’re currently developing other CoreMark family benchmarks. This working group is open to ANY EEMBC member.)

As of today, users have posted over 270 CoreMark™ scores, benchmarking the performance of a wide variety of embedded processors from the industry’s most competitive players, including AMD, Analog Devices, ARM, Broadcom, Cavium, Freescale, Fujitsu, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Marvell, Microchip, MIPS, Nvidia, NXP, Renesas, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, VIA Technologies, and Xilinx. Here are the processor scores that have been posted since our previous newsletter:

Processor	Compiler
CAVIUM OCTEON II CN6880 1500	GCC 4.6.1
IBM POWER7 3550	GCC 4.6.1 20111003 (Red Hat 4.6.1-10)
ICT Loongson 1B 250	GCC 4.6.1 (Buildroot 2011.08)
Intel Xeon W3520 (Lenovo S20) 2660	Intel icc xe 2011
Intel Core i5-2400 3100	Intel icc xe 2011
AMD E350 1600	GCC 4.5.2
Cortus APS3 1	GCC 4.5.1 20110502 (Cortus)
Intel Core i5-2400 3100	GCC4.4.5 20110214 (Red Hat 4.4.5-6)
TI OMAP 3430 (ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l)) 800	GCC 4.7.0 20110802 (experimental)
STMicroelectronics STM32F417IGt6 168	MDK-ARM 4.20.03.0

View all Coremark™ Scores

Upcoming Events

Multicore Developers Conference (formerly known as Multicore Expo)

Before December 8, submit your presentation topics for the Multicore Developers Conference to be held at the San Jose Convention Center on March 27-29, 2012. This event focuses on multicore issues and solutions for application-specific topics as well as emerging applications that will benefit from the use of multicore technology.

Workshop: Benchmark Methods to Analyze Embedded Processors and Systems (BMAEPS)

In Boston on April 22^nd, in conjunction with the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE). Papers in this one-day workshop will cover the use of benchmarks, providing a forum for researchers and industry to discuss issues related to performance and energy analysis of systems and processors. CFP DEADLINE: December 9, 2011.

New Members and Recent News

EEMBC welcomes Research in Motion (RIM) and Synopsys as new Board Members, and Nokia Siemens Networks as a new member of our Networking Subcommittee.
PRESS RELEASE: Cavium’s OCTEON II Achieves World’s Highest CoreMark Benchmark Score for an Integrated Communications Processor.
PRESS RELEASE: STMicroelectronics Launches World's Most Powerful Cortex processor-based Microcontrollers.
NEWS STORY: STMicroelectronics und Texas Instruments präsentieren Cortex-M4-Mikrocontroller.
NEWS STORY: Neue Versionen von Multi Version 6 und Green Hills Compiler 2012 'zeigt CoreMark Ergebnisse'
NEWS STORY: Turbo für den Code - der neue Green-Hills-Compiler 'zeigt CoreMark Ergebnisse'.
NEWS STORY: A conversation with STMicroelectronics includes CoreMark results
NEWS STORY: Validating your GNU platform toolchain: tips and techniques.
NEWS STORY: ST Microelectronics lanserar styrkretsar baserade pa Cortex M4F. De blir de snabbaste M-kretsarna pa marknaden, havdar foretaget, med hänvisning bade till DMIPS och CoreMark
NEWS STORY: CoreMark scores using Green Hills' new versions of MULTI Version 6 and Green Hills Compiler Version 2012

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