The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium announced publication of certified benchmark scores for the TC1796, the first member of the TriCore-based AUDO-NG family of automotive microcontrollers from Infineon Technologies. Tested against AutoBench 1.1, EEMBC’s suite of automotive/industrial processor benchmarks, the 150MHz TC1796 achieved a score of 100 Automarks, the highest recorded value for a device in this frequency range. The Automark score is the geometric mean of the 16 benchmark kernels in AutoBench, which include tests representing signal processing, communications, and general-purpose microcontroller workloads typical of automotive and industrial systems. For these benchmark tests, the TC1796 was used in conjunction with the Tasking VX Toolset for TriCore v2.1r2. The TC1796 is optimized for applications requiring embedded real-time performance and DSP capabilities combined with a fast interrupt response time and high level of fault tolerance. The TC1796 features 2 MB of embedded flash and on-chip peripherals including Micro Second Bus, Fast ADC, and Micro Link Interface. Its triple bus structure is intended to boost overall automotive system performance while reducing system costs. A detailed EEMBC AutoBench score report for the Infineon TC1796 is available now for free online.