Embedded and Networking Systems

6	Range of Benchmarks Required to Analyze Embedded Processors and Systems Jeff Caldwell, Chris Fournier, Shay Gal-On, Markus Levy, and Alexander Mintz

CONTENTS

6.1    Introduction

6.2    Coremark: Basic Application-Independent Benchmarking

6.2.1    List Processing

6.2.2    Matrix Processing

6.2.3    State Machine Processing

6.2.4    CoreMark Profiling and Results

6.3    Multicore Benchmarking

6.3.1    Memory Contention and Other Bottlenecks

6.4    MultiBench Benchmark Suite

6.4.1    MultiBench Results

6.5    Application-Specific Benchmarking and Benchmark Characterization

6.6    Transitioning to System Level: Scenario Benchmarks

6.7    Conclusion

References

6.1    INTRODUCTION

Since their introduction decades ago, embedded processors have ...