The CHStone Benchmark suite is composed of 12 C-based programs meant to test language support and synthesis capabilities of an High-Level Synthesis tool.

CHStone original description

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CHStone
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A Suite of Benchmark Programs for C-based High-Level Synthesis

Introduction

The CHStone benchmark suite has been developed for C-based high-level synthesis (HLS). The CHStone benchmark suite selected programs of various application domains, some of which originally belong to other benchmark suites. CHStone has several key features described as follows:

CHStone consists of 12 programs which are selected from various application domains such as arithmetic, media processing, security and microprocessor.
The programs in CHStone are relatively large compared with the ones which have been widely used in the past literature on HLS.
The CHStone benchmark programs are written in the standard C language, and can be compiled and executed on a host computer.
In our experimental environment, we used GCC 3.4.4 on Windows XP.
All the programs in CHStone have been confirmed to be synthesizable by a state-of-the-art HLS tool.
In our experimental environment, we used eXCite from YXI.
CHStone is very easy to use since test vectors are self-contained and no external library is necessary.

List of Benchmark Programs

The CHStone suite includes the following programs. Source-level characteristics and synthesis results can be found in our paper.

Program Design Description Source
DFADD Double-precision floating-point addition SoftFloat [1]
DFMUL Double-precision floating-point multiplication SoftFloat [1]
DFDIV Double-precision floating-point division SoftFloat [1]
DFSIN Sine function for double-precision floating-point numbers CHStone group, SoftFloat [1]
MIPS Simplified MIPS processor CHStone group
ADPCM Adaptive differential pulse code modulation decoder and encoder SNU [2]
GSM Linear predictive coding analysis of global system for mobile communications MediaBench [3]
JPEG JPEG image decompression The Portable Video Research Group [4],
CHStone group
MOTION Motion vector decoding of the MPEG-2 MediaBench [3]
AES Advanced encryption standard AILab [5]
BLOWFISH Data encryption standard MiBench [6]
SHA Secure hash algorithm MiBench [6]

[1] SoftFloat, http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html.
[2] SNU Real-time Benchmarks, http://archi.snu.ac.kr/realtime/benchmark/.
[3] C. Lee, M. Potkonjak, and W. H. Mangione-Smith, "MediaBench: A tool for evaluating and synthesizing multimedia and communicatons systems," MICRO, 1997.
[4] A. C. Hung, "PVRG-JPEG CODEC 1.1," Technical Report, Stanford University, 1993.
[5] AILab, http://www-ailab.elcom.nitech.ac.jp/.
[6] M. R. Guthaus, J. S. Ringenberg, and D. Ernst, "MiBench: A free, commercially representative embedded benchmark suite," WWC, 2001.
Publication

Please cite the following paper when you publish a paper where CHStone is used.

Yuko Hara, Hiroyuki Tomiyama, Shinya Honda and Hiroaki Takada,
"Proposal and Quantitative Analysis of the CHStone Benchmark Program Suite for Practical C-based High-level Synthesis",
Journal of Information Processing, Vol. 17, pp.242-254, (2009).
PDF is freely available online from Journal of Information Processing