Green Hills Software's Compilers Set New Records for PowerPC 440GX and 440GP IBM Processors; Compilers Outperform Competitors by as Much as 20%.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2003 Green Hills Software, Inc. today announced that its MULTI MULTI Multiple compilers for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) PowerPC 440GX and 440GP outperformed competitors' compilers on benchmarks recently conducted by IBM and certified See certification. by EEMBC EEMBC EDN Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (Electronic Design News Magazine) Certification Labs. With the publication of these results, Green Hills gains the distinction of being included with IBM in 19 of its 20 published performance benchmarks. EEMBC benchmarks have become a valuable tool for embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. designers and developers because they are comprised of diverse source code and scores are independently certified. Using five distinct market segments -- telecomm, automotive/industrial, consumer, networking and office automation -- the EEMBC benchmarks deliver results that reflect real-world application performance. "Green Hills Software's compilers took advantage of our architectural strengths to help us establish record-setting performance with our IBM PowerPC 440GX processor in all five EEMBC benchmark suites," said Kalpesh Gala, PowerPC strategic marketing manager at IBM Microelectronics. "The 440GX processors offer high-end capabilities tailored to the needs of high-performance embedded networking, communications and storage applications." Out-of-the-box scores for the IBM 440GX and 440GP were obtained using the MULTI 3.6.1 compiler:
EEMBC Benchmark Suite IBM 667-MHz IBM 500-MHz Consolidated scores
440GX 440GP units
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Networking 15.0 9.4 Netmarks
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Telecom 15.3 11.4 Telemarks
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Consumer 57.9 42.5 Consumermarks
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Automotive/Industrial 356.4 264.2 Automarks
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Office Automation 719.8 511.1 OAmarks
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The IBM PowerPC 440GX processor contains several new features that significantly improve its performance over the 440GP processor. The Green Hills compiler unlocked these features through optimizations such as effective use of multiply-accumulate (MAC) instruction set extensions, efficient pipeline scheduling and advanced register allocation (compiler, algorithm) register allocation - The phase of a compiler that determines which values will be placed in registers. Register allocation may be combined with register assignment. . "EEMBC strives to provide system developers with real-world performance benchmarks to better equip them in making hardware and software choices," noted Markus Levy, EEMBC president. "As developers are aware, care must be taken to evaluate and select development tools that take advantage of the highest performance capabilities of the architecture." About Green Hills Software Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc. is the technology leader for real-time operating systems (operating system) Real-Time Operating System - (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. and software development tools for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. . The royalty-free INTEGRITY RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. , compilers, MULTI and AdaMULTI Integrated Development Environments See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment and Green Hills Probe offer a complete development solution that addresses both deeply embedded and maximum reliability applications. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Green Hills Software, the Green Hills logo, MULTI and INTEGRITY are registered trademarks of Green Hills Software, Inc. AdaMULTI is a trademark of Green Hills Software, Inc. All other trademarks (registered or otherwise) are the property of their respective companies. Brand or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. North American Sales Contact: Green Hills Software, Inc., 30 West Sola Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Tel: 805-965-6044, Fax: 805-965-6343, Website: www.ghs.com, Email: sales@ghs.com. International Sales Contact: Green Hills Software Ltd., Dolphin House, St. Peter Street, Winchester Hampshire SO23 8BW, United Kingdom, Tel: +44 (0)1962 829820, Fax: +44 (0)1962 890300, Email: mktg-europe@ghs.com. |
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