The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium launched OABench 2.0, a second-generation, significantly enhanced office-automation benchmark suite that gives users the ability to approximate the performance of embedded microprocessors in printers, plotters, and other systems that handle text and image processing tasks.
The OABench 2.0 suite consists of five benchmarks, each with its own datasets, including entirely new Bezier and Ghostscript tests. In addition to these new benchmarks, OABench 2.0 introduces enhanced dithering, image rotation, and text parsing benchmarks with new datasets; a cyclical redundancy checksum (CRC) feature for self-checking; as well as the ability to view processed output files.
The new Ghostscript benchmark provides an indication of the potential performance of an embedded processor running a PostScript printer engine. Performance is measured using nine input files reflecting different aspects of PostScript language processing, as well as six output drivers reflecting the different types of processing found in common printer engines.
"OABench is a popular benchmark suite, not only because it reflects the workloads that processors encounter in office automation equipment, but also because its tests have applicability to any type of application in which text and images are processed," said Markus Levy, EEMBC president. "Furthermore, even if you're not working on a printer or image processing application, the workload provided by OABench 2.0 will stress processors at all levels."
The new Bezier benchmark interpolates a set of points defined by the four points of a Bezier curve and stresses the ability of embedded microprocessors to perform division, multiplication, and scalar processing tasks.OABench 2.0 is available to companies that become members of EEMBC and also by license to commercial and academic users. Pricing for a single-user commercial license is $2,500.
EEMBC benchmark software helps predict the performance of embedded processors and memory subsystems in a range of applications. - An industry-standard tool for analyzing, tuning, and validating embedded processors, compilers, and systems
- Predicts performance and energy consumption in real-world applications
- Runs natively on any processor, allowing you to make impartial comparisons among a wide range of devices
- Hundreds of certified EEMBC score reports allow you to compare your results with data on other processors
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