EMERALD: Characterization of emerging applications and algorithms for low-power devices

Compute-intensive applications are emerging in intelligent home, retail store and automotive industries. These applications are becoming more sophisticated with new features rich in audio, video, image, and machine learning capabilities that demand heavy computations. We present the EMERALD (EMERging Applications and algorithms for Low power Device) workload suite. We profile the workloads to show the hotspot functions that are candidates for hardware accelerators.