A Synthetic Benchmark

On synthetic benchmark generation methods

In the process of designing complex chips and systems, the use of benchmark designs is often necessary. However, the existing benchmark suites are not sufficient for the evaluation of new architectures and EDA tools; synthetic benchmark circuits are a viable alternative. In this paper, a systematic approach for the generation and evaluation of synthetic benchmark circuits is presented. A number...

Generating synthetic benchmark circuits for evaluating CAD tools

For the development and evaluation of CADtools for partitioning, floorplanning, placement, and routing of digital circuits, a huge amount of benchmark circuits with suitable characteristic parameters is required. Observing the lack of industrial benchmark circuits available for use in evaluation tools, one could consider to actually generate synthetic circuits. In this paper, we extend a graph-...

Design Methodology for Development of Behavioral Synthesis Generic and Synthetic Benchmarks Abstract The importance of benchmarking as an essential methodology in evaluating and comparing digital systems

The importance of benchmarking as an essential methodology in evaluating and comparing digital systems synthesis tools is well established. Equally well are the limitations of the majority of current benchmarks recognized. Our primary goal is to lay out the theoretically and statistically sound foundations for addressing the key issues related to the selection of generic benchmarks and the synt...

Synthetic Workload Generation for Cloud Computing Applications

We present techniques for characterization, modeling and generation of workloads for cloud computing applications. Methods for capturing the workloads of cloud computing applications in two different models benchmark application and workload models are described. We give the design and implementation of a synthetic workload generator that accepts the benchmark and workload model specifications ...

Experiments in Automatic Benchmark Synthesis

In the nineteen-eighties, synthetic workloads such as Whetstone and Dhrystone fell out of favor as benchmarks of computer performance because they became unrepresentative of the performance of continuously-evolving applications. Hand-coded synthetic benchmarks take work to develop and maintain, are language feature specific, and are subject to compiler optimizations that eliminate code meant to...

SyB3R: A Realistic Synthetic Benchmark for 3D Reconstruction from Images