A new development in embedded computer performance measurement

The authors report on the results of Phase I of the Advanced Avionics Technology Demonstration (AATD) Embedded Computer Performance Measurement (ECPM) program performanced by Texas Instruments (TI) for the Naval Avionics Center (NAC). During Phase I of the AATD program, novel techniques were developed to measure spare processing throughput and I/O for use in comparing different embedded computer systems and to measure spare processing throughput and spare I/O percentages in support of US government standards such as TADSTAND D, which defines Navy policy requirements for computer reserves. TI used its MIL-STD-1750A based Mission Display Processor (MDP), developed for the YF-22 ATF DEM/VAL program, as the initial target computing system for this effort. The cornerstone of the benchmark is a NAC Developed navigation program which was hosted on a VAX and retargeted by TI to its MDP