EEMBC Joins SPEC in Benchmarking Non-Profit

EEMBC Joins SPEC Embedded Group

EEMBC, the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, has recently joined the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) and has become the 'SPEC Embedded Group' (SPEC EG). Both SPEC and EEMBC are non-profit organizations.

Started before the millennium by EDN magazine (hence the extra initial 'E'), and later spun out, EEMBC has developed respected industry benchmarks for measuring the processing performance and energy efficiency of microcontrollers including CoreMark and IoTMark.

"Making quality benchmarks is extremely hard and only getting more complex," said Peter Torelli, the now retiring president and CTO of EEMBC. "Continued success depends on bringing together seasoned and talented professionals to collaborate in a more comprehensive standards organization."

"SPEC warmly welcomes EEMBC as the third major performance benchmark consortium to have chosen to join SPEC, enabling us to more broadly address the need for trusted independent computing benchmarks," said SPEC President David Reiner. "With 40-plus standardized benchmarks, the combination of SPEC and EEMBC means the industry now has one source for benchmarks covering most areas of compute."

EEMBC members gain access to workloads and harnesses developed across more than 20 committees at SPEC's. "For example, SPEC EG benchmark developers can integrate the PTDaemon interface to enable measurements using an array of modern power analyzers and temperature sensors," said SPEC. "EEMBC also gains access to SPEC's administrative resources, enabling it to reduce costs and increase investments. SPEC expands its portfolio of computing benchmarks to enable measurements from the smallest microcontroller to the largest supercomputers."

Founding members of SPEC EG include representatives from Arm, Intel, Renesas, Silicon Labs, STMicroelectronics, and Synopsys. SPEC has over 120 members, including computer hardware vendors, software vendors, educational institutions, research organizations, and government agencies.