Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Tensilica | Subject: Xtensa LX processor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 30 March 2005
Top score posted for licensable
processor core
Tensilica has announced that it has posted the highest score ever recorded for a licensable processor core, and the highest absolute score ever published for any processor on EEMBC.
Tensilica, the only company to automate the design of optimized application-specific configurable processors for system-on-chip (SOC) design, has announced that it has posted the highest score ever recorded for a licensable processor core, and the highest absolute score ever published for any processor, on the Office Automation benchmark suite of the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) The EEMBC benchmark scores, independently certified by the EEMBC Certification Laboratories (ECL), confirm that the Xtensa LX processor is nearly four times faster than the much larger PowerPC 440GX core, and more than four times as powerful as the 64-bit MIPS 20Kc processor
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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