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BDTI Benchmarks

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For over ten years, BDTI’s benchmark suites have provided a reliable means to measure and compare signal-processing performance. BDTI's benchmark results are used by engineers, managers, and executives to make key decisions and to market products. BDTI offers benchmark suites that are suitable for a variety of applications and processing technologies. Click here for a complete list of BDTI's benchmark suites.

BDTI Analysis

Beyond benchmark results, BDTI provides invaluable perspective and insight. BDTI's rigorous, in-depth evaluations identify the competitive strengths and weaknesses of chips and cores, service the needs of engineering and marketing professionals.

BDTI provides analysis in two forms, Quantitative Analysis and Qualitative Analysis, providing processor developers and prospective users with invaluable perspective on processor strengths and weaknesses.

Quantitative Analysis, Based on Benchmark Results

In its quantitative analysis, BDTI’s expert analysts scrutinize and compare benchmark results for a range of processors. This detailed analysis helps processor developers and prospective users understand not only how a processor performs relative to its competitors, but why its performance is stronger or weaker on a particular benchmark or a particular metric. The quantitative analysis presents explanations of how processor features influence benchmark performance, and how such features are likely to influence application performance.

Qualitative Analysis

No matter how extensive, no benchmark suite can reveal all of the important facets of a processor. BDTI’s qualitative analyses provide rigorous analysis of dozens of important aspects of a processor, such as I/O interfaces, ease of use, compatibility, and tools. Comments from BDTI analysts, based on hands-on experience with the processor, provide an independent, authoritative perspective on many key aspects of a processor, including comparisons to relevant competitors.

Value of BDTI Benchmark Results and Analysis

Many benefits accrue to processor developers who obtain BDTI analysis of their processors. These benefits extend far beyond the inclusion of the processor analysis results in BDTI’s published reports. The key benefits can be divided into three main categories:

Internal use of BDTI’s analysis results by the processor vendor
Processor vendors often make extensive internal use of BDTI’s analysis results. For example, BDTI’s results can be extremely useful for competitive analysis and product planning.
External use of BDTI’s analysis results by the processor vendor
Processor vendors are permitted to disclose excerpts of BDTI’s analysis results in accord with established guidelines. By incorporating BDTI’s analysis results into customer presentations, conference papers, and marketing materials, processor vendors can gain essential credibility for their processors’ capabilities.
External use of BDTI’s analysis results by BDTI
Once a vendor has publicly disclosed details of its processor, BDTI will also disclose the benchmark results and analysis. BDTI actively disseminates its processor analysis results through a wide variety of channels. Perhaps the best known of these is BDTI’s Inside series of reports providing in-depth analysis of processors for signal processing applications. Benchmarks results are also used in BDTI's fee-based products and services, such as seminars and processor-selection consulting services. BDTI also uses the results in a large number of freely available forms, including on BDTI’s Web site, numerous conference presentations, technical journal and trade magazine articles, its monthly Inside DSP newsletter, and the popular BDTI Pocket Guide, an independent guide to processing engines for DSP.

BDTI Certified™

Certification of benchmark results by BDTI assures system and SoC designers that the benchmark results they’re using are fair, accurate, and credible.

Users need not rely on benchmark results that may be based on loose estimates or obtained under unrealistic conditions. Users may reduce risk in design decisions by looking for the BDTI Certified logo and insisting that vendors provide BDTI Certified results.

Vendors that use the BDTI Certified™ mark on their products may expect lower cost-of-sales, a faster sales cycle, and greater credibility in their marketing.

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BDTI Benchmark Information Service™

The BDTI Benchmark Information Service™ provides industry-recognized BDTI Certified™ results for over 40 processors on the BDTI DSP Kernel Benchmarks™. Delivered as an annual subscription service, with quarterly updates for new and newly-benchmarked processors. Subscribers have immediate, 24/7 access to results when they’re needed.

Bundled with the BDTI Benchmark Analysis Tool™ (BAT). A unique tool for analyzing processor performance, the BAT enables users to:

Quickly compare the performance of new or planned processors to dozens of competitor processors and cores.
Vary weightings on specific benchmarks, creating what-if scenarios.
Use projected clock speeds, pricing, and energy consumption data to predict the future competitive landscape.

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BDTI DSP Kernel Benchmarks Engineering Toolkit™

The BDTI DSP Kernel Benchmarks Engineering Toolkit™ combines the BDTI DSP Kernel Benchmarks, the industry’s most reliable benchmarks for signal processing applications, with a rich library of competitive information and a flexible tool for making comparisons and weighing design trade-offs.

The BDTI DSP Kernel Benchmarks Engineering Toolkit includes three complementary tools that enable engineers and engineering managers quickly and accurately assess chips, silicon IP, and development tools:

The BDTI DSP Kernel Benchmarks™ Specification
The BDTI DSP Kernel Benchmarks Specification provides reference code, a detailed written specification with guidelines for coding and optimization, and test vectors. The Specification gives users what they need to implement these industry-standard benchmarks on their own or their vendors’ products.
The BDTI Benchmark Information Service™
The Benchmark Information Service delivers a comprehensive library of up-to-date BDTI Certified™ benchmark results to enable broad comparisons.
The BDTI Benchmark Analysis Tool™
The Benchmark Analysis Tool enables users to quickly create sophisticated competitive and what-if analyses to compare the capabilities of their design with the current and future competitive landscape.

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