CRI: CRD Benchmark Suite for Embedded and Reconfigurable Computing Research

该项目通过为研究社区提供一套针对嵌入式和可重构计算研究的基准来支持嵌入式和可重构计算研究（E&amp；RC）的研究。由该奖项资助的社区资源ERCbench将允许研究人员评估和比较其工作与其他现有和拟议解决方案的性能、功率和资源使用情况。它将允许他们测试新的架构、CAD算法和系统软件技术，在各种现实世界的应用中，用于智能、嵌入式设备，如生物医学、交通、环境监测和通信领域。这些应用往往侧重于低功耗和高性能，例如新兴技术：多媒体手机和个人数字助理、无线医疗设备、可穿戴计算机、智能安全设备、3D游戏系统、汽车计算机和教育设备。这些系统通常需要可编程性、复杂的计算能力和非常低的功耗操作。他们还使用混合应用程序，其中部分应用程序在一种或多种类型的硬件结构（固定自定义或可重新编程逻辑）中实现，部分应用程序在软件中实现。尽管在各种嵌入式系统领域中都有基准测试，但该项目需要开发嵌入式和可重构计算中非常需要的基准测试，包括硬件/软件协同设计和可重构计算系统，以及相关的包装器、测试、数据和其他组件。项目团队将通过项目网站提供基准套件供一般使用。

This project supports research in Embedded and Reconfigurable Computing Research (E&RC) by providing the research community with a suite of benchmarks that are specific to E&RC. The community resource funded by this award, ERCbench, will permit researchers to estimate and compare performance, power, and resource usage of their work to other existing and proposed solutions. It will permit them to test new architectures, CAD algorithms, and systems software techniques on a variety of real-world applications for intelligent, embedded devices in areas such as bio-medicine, transportation, environmental monitoring, and communications. These applications tend to focus on low-power and high performance such as in emerging technologies in: multimedia cell phones and personal digital assistants, wireless medical devices, wearable computers, intelligent security devices, 3D gaming systems, automotive computers, and education devices. These systems typically require programmability, complex computing capabilities, and very low power operation. They also use hybrid applications, where part of the application is implemented in one or more types of hardware structures (either fixed custom or reprogrammable logic), and part in software.Although there are benchmarks in various embedded systems arenas, this project entails development of much needed benchmarks in Embedded and Reconfigurable Computing that include hardware/software co-design and reconfigurable computing systems along with associated wrappers, tests, data and other components. The project team will make the benchmark suites available for general use via the project website.