"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.
