ParMiBench - An Open-Source Benchmark for Embedded Multiprocessor Systems

Multicore processors are the main computing platform in laptops, desktop, and servers today, and are making their way into the embedded systems market also. Using benchmarks is a common approach to evaluate the performance of a system. However, benchmarks for embedded systems have so far been either targeted for a uni-processor environment, e.g., MiBench,or have been commercial, e.g., MultiBench by EEMBC. In this paper, we propose and implement an open source benchmark,ParMiBench, targeted for multiprocessor-based embedded systems. ParMiBench consists of parallel implementations of seven compute intensive algorithms from the uni-processor benchmark suite MiBench. The applications are selected from four domains:Automation and Industry Control, Network, Office, and Security.