14 DAY TRIAL // EEMBC's CoreMark benchmark has just received Android support. Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, the company behind the benchmark, announced that this support enables CoreMark users to easily build and run CoreMark on any Android platform.
In this regard, the EEMBC (Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium) is offering a native development kit (NDK), along with the CoreMark benchmark, which is openly available for download.
According to the developer, users have posted 230 CoreMark scores on its website, benchmarking the performance of a wide variety of embedded processors from the industry's most competitive manufacturers, including AMD, Analog Devices, ARM, Broadcom, Freescale, Fujitsu, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Marvell, Microchip, MIPS, Nvidia, NXP, Renesas, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, and VIA Technologies.
“With the increasing popularity of Android, many users will benefit from our porting support for the CoreMark benchmark,” said Markus Levy, president of EEMBC. “The Android port for CoreMark delivers a common port to work with to ensure everyone is running the same code.”
For the non-tech savvy, CoreMark application benchmarks and evaluates a CPU's ability to perform the real tasks that embedded apps are usually demanding.
Those who wish to try it out can find the CoreMark source code as a free download, along with all submitted scores on the benchmark's website.
Furthermore, the EEMBC (Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium) advises all CoreMark users to publish their scores and platform configurations to allow users to make quick and reproducible comparisons between processors.
In addition to the Android port that is now available, users can download ports for the Microchip PIC32MX440F512H, Microchip PIC32MX360F512L, Keil MCB17xx board with NXP microcontroller, and STMicroelectronic's STM3220F evaluation board.
Although the benchmark has its own self-verification software to make the submitted scores credible, the company announced that it would offer CoreMark score certifications for members to ensure an extra level of credibility for the user-submitted scores.