lers The Analog Devices ATT Motorola

A new DSPoriented benchmarking methodology is presented Contrary to the existing assemblybased DSP benchmarks the proposedmethodology is able to evaluate the performance of DSP compilers and joint compilerprocessor systems In the paper the reference code method is introduced in order to deliver relia ble and comparable benchmarking results As an example the DSPstone methodology is applied on a set of ve stateoftheart xedpoint digital signal processors with appropriate C comp