TY - CONF T1 - MachSuite: Benchmarks for Accelerator Design and Customized Architectures T2 - IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC) Y1 - 2014 A1 - Brandon Reagen A1 - Robert Adolf A1 - Sophia Shao A1 - Gu Wei A1 - David Brooks KW - accelerators AB - Recent high-level synthesis and accelerator-related architecture papers show a great disparity in workload selection among projects and research groups. To provide standardization within the accelerator research community, we present MachSuite, a benchmark suite for high-level synthesis tools and accelerator-centric architectures. MachSuite is the compilation of carefully selected workloads to cover a diverse application space and algorithm choices. All the benchmarks in MachSuite are implemented to be well suited for high-level synthesis. A thorough characterization further demonstrates the diverse behaviors among benchmarks, representative of different customization challenges. MachSuite enables commensurability across research projects while mitigating the burden of accelerator implementation and workload selection. JF - IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC) UR - 10.1109/IISWC.2014.6983050 ER -