EEMBC Selects Infineon's Patrick Leteinturier as Automotive Subcommittee Chairman

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif., Feb. 27, 2006 -- The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) today announced that Patrick Leteinturier of Infineon Technologies has been elected chairman of EEMBC's automotive and industrial subcommittee. Mr. Leteinturier will be leading the consortium's development of its next-generation automotive benchmarks, with the goal of making them fully relevant to the advanced needs of today's automotive designers.

Mr. Leteinturier is automotive system senior principal at Infineon. With 17 years of experience in automotive controls, he holds several patents for powertrain architectures and serves as a consultant for several automobile OEMs and system suppliers designing powertrain systems. Before joining Infineon/Siemens-HL in 1997, Mr. Leteinturier managed powertrain development at SAGEM for seven years. His education includes engineering degrees from ENSAM and ESE, and a diploma DEA in internal combustion engines.

"Moving forward, the objective of the EEMBC automotive and industrial subcommittee is to develop a powerful benchmark suite that can specify and measure performance and energy between all the components in these complex systems, and help each partner improve its products to push the limits of automotive systems," said Markus Levy, EEMBC president. "Patrick's unique combination of education and experience has perfectly positioned him to lead this subcommittee as we strive to develop a benchmark recognized by automotive vendors worldwide for its efficacy in measuring the performance of every component in automotive applications including microcontroller cores, buses, peripherals, memory, compilers, profilers, operating systems, SW drivers, and auto-code generators."

"The increasingly stringent requirements for fuel economy, safety, emission reduction, and onboard diagnosis are driving the automotive industry's demand for more innovative solutions and a rapid increase of microcontroller performance," said Mr. Leteinturer. "The simple microcontrollers formerly used in automobiles are now being replaced by powerful number-crunchers whose performance can no longer be measured in MIPS. Instead, their effectiveness is based on a coherent partitioning between analog and digital, hardware and software, tools and methodology. I look forward to leading EEMBC's efforts to develop benchmarks that take every factor into consideration in creating an accurate measurement of a system's true performance."

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 network storage-related applications. With members including leading semiconductor, intellectual property, and compiler companies, EEMBC establishes benchmark standards and provides certified benchmarking results through the EEMBC Technical Center.

EEMBC's members include Adaptec, Altera Corp, AMCC, AMD, Analog Devices, ARC International, ARM, Atmel, Broadcom, CodeSourcery, esmertec, Faraday, Freescale Semiconductor, Fujitsu Microelectronics, Green Hills Software, IAR Systems, IBM, Imagination Technologies, Improv Systems, Infineon Technologies, Intel, IPFlex, LSI Logic, Marvell Semiconductor, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Mentor Graphics, MIPS Technologies, MQX Embedded, National Instruments, National Semiconductor, NEC Electronics, Nokia, Oki Electric Industry, Patriot Scientific, Philips Semiconductors, PMC-Sierra, Qualcomm, Red Hat, Renesas Technology, Sandbridge Technologies, Sony Computer Entertainment, ST Microelectronics, Stretch, Inc, Sun Microsystems, Sunplus Technology, Tao Group, Tensilica, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, VIA Technologies, and Wind River Systems.

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