ERCBench: An Open-Source Benchmark Suite for Embedded and Reconfigurable Computing
Daniel W. Chang, Christipher Jenkins, Philip Garcia, Syed Zohaib Gilani, Paula Aguilera, Aishwarya Nagarajan, Michael J. Anderson, Matthew A. Kenny, Sean Bauer, Michael Schulte, Katherine Compton · 2010
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 Without a suitable benchmark suite, researchers use either outdated, unrealistic benchmarks or spend valuable time creating their own.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.