Benchmarks for SmartCam Development.

The PROGRESS/STW SmartCam project aims to quantify the design of smart camera processors by providing a well-dened design trajectory. This trajectory includes specifying an architecture template, creating a parallelising compiler, and using simulation and analysis tools to nd an optimal mapping of the intended application to some instance of the template. In order to design and tune the trajectory, however, we need applications to benchmark and test the tooling. This paper describes the selection and subsequent decomposition of these applications, and we conclude that algorithmic kernels can be used to test the architecture and analysis tools, while we need real-world applications to verify the compiler trajectory.

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