Stretch Inc.'s S5610 Achieves Highest EEMBC Telecomm Benchmark
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 26, 2004 — Stretch Inc., the first company to embed programmable logic within the processor, today announced that its S5610 software-configurable processor has achieved the highest score in the Telecomm benchmark suite from the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC®). Beating the most powerful general-purpose processors (GPPs) and DSPs, the Stretch S5610 received an optimized score of 2.924 Telemarks™ per Megahertz, which translates into a score of 877 Telemarks in a 300-MHz simulation. Test results were certified by the EEMBC Certification Labs. "Stretch's S5610 processor's EEMBC benchmark scores are obviously impressive - they come out on top of the EEMBC Telecomm benchmarks, leading the best standard processors optimized for these benchmarks. What makes this processor interesting is that this level of performance is achieved by programming in C, and the Stretch tools automatically configure the hardware. Furthermore, this same approach can also be easily applied to other applications to achieve equally impressive results," said Markus Levy, EEMBC president.
Stretch's S5000 software-configurable processors combine the best of two previously divergent semiconductor worlds - the ease of software development associated with GPPs and DSPs and and the parallelism and flexibility of FPGAs. Stretch achieves this by embedding programmable logic entirely inside the processor architecture - an industry first.
Every S5000 processor chip is powered by the Stretch® S5 engine, which incorporates the widely accepted Tensilica® Xtensa® RISC processor core and the powerful Stretch Instruction Set Extension Fabric (ISEF). The ISEF is a software configurable data path based on proprietary programmable logic. Using the ISEF, system designers extend the processor instruction set and define the new instructions using only their C/C++ code. As a result, developers get the performance of logic with C/C++ development simplicity - achieving unprecedented performance, easy and rapid development and significant cost savings.
The Stretch S5610 is suitable for telecom, networking, military, and security applications. It has four 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports that can also be configured in FIFO or PosPhy level-3 mode, 64-bits of DDR400 SDRAM with Error Correction Code, and low-speed serial I/O, Time Division Multiplex (TDM), and General Purpose I/Os (GPIOs).
About EEMBC
EEMBC, the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, develops and certifies real-world benchmarks and benchmark scores to help designers select the right embedded processors for their systems. Every processor submitted for EEMBC benchmarking is tested for parameters representing different workloads and capabilities in communications, networking, consumer, office automation, automotive/industrial, embedded Java, and microcontroller-related applications. With members including leading semiconductor, intellectual property, and compiler companies, EEMBC establishes benchmark standards and provides certified benchmarking results through the EEMBC Certification Labs (ECL).
About Stretch
On April 26, 2004, Stretch Inc. introduced a new kind of software-configurable processor, the first to embed programmable logic within the processor. Using only familiar C/C++ programming tools, system developers automatically configure Stretch's off-the-shelf processors to meet the needs of their toughest compute-intensive applications, achieving extraordinary performance, easy and rapid development, significant cost savings, and flexibility to address diverse markets and changing application needs. Founded in March 2002, Stretch has its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., and has been funded through investments from top-tier venture capitalists Worldview Technology Partners, Oak Investment Partners and Menlo Ventures. For more information, please visit www.stretchinc.com.
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