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

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 Without a suitable benchmark suite, researchers use either outdated, unrealistic benchmarks or spend valuable time creating their own.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 softwarebased control flow with hardware-based computation tasks. Keywords - benchmarks, open-source, embedded computing, reconfigurable computing

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: FPL
• 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
• Keywords: Benchmark Suite, FPL 2010, Hardware, Reconfigurable Computing, Suitable Benchmark