BENCHMARKS FOR PIICROPROCESSORS
Donald K. Fronek, Ibrahim Sader · 1981
The University of Nevada-Reno is conducting research relative to comparing several microprocessors in an automatic testing environment, Benchmark programs are being developed to establish certain figures of merit to determine execution speed and program administrative costs. Furthermore, a detailed analysis of these results indicates strengths and weaknesses of benchmarking in a static and dynamic execution. Three microprocessors have been considered. The Intel 8086 16-bit machine, the Motorola 6801 8-bit machine and a Motorola 6800 with an AMD-9511 arithmetic unit. Currently a Motorola 68000 and a TI 990 are under investigation. Emphasis is placed on arithmetic and logical operations with additional input/output instructions included in the execution time.