ERCBench: An Open-Source Benchmark Suite for Embedded and Reconfigurable Computing

  • Authors:
  • Daniel W. Chang;Christipher D. Jenkins;Philip C. Garcia;Syed Z. Gilani;Paula Aguilera;Aishwarya Nagarajan;Michael J. Anderson;Matthew A. Kenny;Sean M. Bauer;Michael J. Schulte;Katherine Compton

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FPL '10 Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Researchers in embedded and reconfigurable computing are often hindered by a lack of suitable benchmarks with which to accurately evaluate their work. Without a suitable benchmark suite, researchers use either outdated, unrealistic benchmarks or spend valuable time creating their own. In this paper, we present ERCBench—a freely-available, open-source benchmark suite geared towards embedded and reconfigurable computing research. ERCBench benchmarks represent a variety of application areas, including multimedia processing, wireless communications, and cryptography. They consist of synthesizable Verilog models for hardware accelerators and hybrid hardware/software applications that combine software-based control flow with hardware-based computation tasks.