The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) has announced a benchmark that looks at the efficiency of Internet of Things edge nodes. The benchmark, currently in development, aims to provide a standardised way for application developers to compare the efficiency of systems targeted at IoT end point applications.
"EEMBC's IoT benchmark will build upon the measurement platform and profile approach that we developed for ULPBench," said Markus Levy, pictured, EEMBC president. "We're excited from an engineering perspective, because incorporating additional performance and efficiency aspects into the measurement system, specifically the wireless and sensing pieces, presents some interesting technical challenges."
According to EEMBC, such edge nodes have four primary parts: sensors or transducers; processing; interfaces; and a communication mechanism. Its benchmark will provide a method to determine the combined energy consumption of the platform, taking real world effects into consideration. This approach is said to enable the optimised selection of the MCU and RF elements.
Current working group members include Analog Devices, ARM, Freescale, Imagination, Microchip, NXP, Silicon Labs, STMicroelectronics, Synopsys, and Texas Instruments.
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Graham Pitcher
Source: www.newelectronics.co.uk