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Plurality Joins Embedded Network Processor Consortium

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December 29, 2010

Plurality Joins Embedded Network Processor Consortium

By Shamila Janakiraman, TMCnet Contributor


The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium or EEMBC announced that Plurality has joined the EEMBC (News - Alert) consortium’s Consumer Workgroup.


According to EEMBC sources, Plurality develops intellectual property, semiconductors and acceleration boards leveraging its manycore network processors. These manycore processors can utilize the EEMBC Consumer benchmarks such as the consortium’s MultiBench suite that enables parallelism for multicore processor architectures.

EEMBC’s Consumer working group develops benchmarks for several tasks including benchmarks for approximating the performance of network processors in digital still cameras, printers, and other embedded systems that handle digital imaging tasks.

It also takes care of approximating the performance of network processor subsystems in multimedia tasks such as image, video, and audio file compression and decompression, and those for encryption and decryption of algorithms used in digital rights management (DRM) and eCommerce applications.

Also the Consumer working group provides a standardized, industry-accepted method of evaluating Web browser performance.

Peleg Aviely, Vice President of Engineering at Plurality said in a release, “Participation in EEMBC’s Consumer work group allows us to influence and track the progress of important industry benchmarks that utilize multicore and manycore processing. This helps Plurality optimize our products for customers who work in the market segments addressed by this work group.”

EEMBC President Markus Levy (News - Alert) said, “Plurality has already demonstrated some very interesting results using EEMBC's ConsumerBench, which is not even a multicore-specific benchmark. The use of MultiBench will allow them to take full advantage of their manycore architecture that includes the company's unique hardware-based synchronizer/scheduler.”

The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium develops benchmark software to help designers select the right embedded network processors for their systems. Also benchmark algorithms and applications developed by EEMBC are organized into benchmark suites targeting consumer, digital entertainment, networking, automotive/industrial, telecommunications, Java, and office equipment products.

MultiBench which is a set of benchmarks is most suitable for benchmarking the capabilities of multicore processors based on an SMP architecture. These benchmarks may be obtained by joining EEMBC’s open membership or via a corporate or university licensing program. The EEMBC Technology Center manages development of new benchmark software and certifies benchmark test results.


Shamila Janakiraman is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Shamila’s articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Erin Monda







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