Abstract

Intel Corporation commissioned Tolly to evaluate the performance and memory bandwidth of an Intel Atom Z530 processor based embedded platform aimed at the applications like industrial automation, medical, digital security and surveillance, infotainment, etc.

Tolly engineers built a representative embedded computing platform using the 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor with 533 MHz FSB, 1 GB DDR2 667 MHz RAM and running Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop Edition for the operating system. Tests benchmarked the general CPU performance of the Intel Atom Z530 based platform using the industry standard SPEC CPU2000 benchmark, and the sustained computer memory bandwidth using the STREAM benchmark.