CS/ECE 552 Introduction to Computer Architecture Spring 2012 Section 1 Instructor David A. Wood and T. A. Ramkumar Ravikumar URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~david/courses/cs552/S12/

552 Benchmarks

The performance of your processor will be assessed based upon the performance of the benchmarks in this directory:

/p/course/cs552-david/public/html/S12/project/tests/public/552marks

These tests are rather lengthy, but should stress your design in interesting and (somewhat) realistic ways. It may take your processor longer than the cycle limit in your clkrst module to pass the tests. If this is the case, simply up the number of instructions allowed in your clkrst module.

Below are the 552mark reference times:

For your final report you should include a calculation of the “552ratio” for each benchmark, along with the geometric mean of these ratios. (Similar to calculation of SPECratios on page 49 of COD4E) Your final “552mark score” will be the mean ratio times 100.