MiBench: A free, commercially representative embedded benchmark suite

Author

Guthaus, Matthew R. ; Ringenberg, Jeffrey S. ; Ernst, Dan ; Austin, Todd M. ; Mudge, Trevor ; Brown, Richard B.

Author_Institution

Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2 Dec. 2001

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

14

Abstract

This paper examines a set of commercially representative embedded programs and compares them to an existing benchmark suite, SPEC2000. A new version of SimpleScalar that has been adapted to the ARM instruction set is used to characterize the performance of the benchmarks using configurations similar to current and next generation embedded processors. Several characteristics distinguish the representative embedded programs from the existing SPEC benchmarks including instruction distribution, memory behavior, and available parallelism. The embedded benchmarks, called MiBench, are freely available to all researchers.

Keywords

embedded systems; instruction sets; security of data; software performance evaluation; telecommunication computing; ARM instruction set; SPEC2000; SimpleScalar; benchmark suite; benchmarking; embedded programs; performance; representative embedded programs; Application software; Code standards; Computer science; Digital audio players; Instruction sets; Microcontrollers; Microprocessors; Multimedia systems; Parallel processing; Process design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Workload Characterization, 2001. WWC-4. 2001 IEEE International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7315-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WWC.2001.990739

Filename

990739