{"id":1144,"date":"2025-09-30T14:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panda.deib.polimi.it\/?page_id=1144"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:43:05","slug":"machsuite-results","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/panda.deib.polimi.it\/?page_id=1144","title":{"rendered":"MachSuite results"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Introduction<\/h4>\n<p>We evaluate accelerators generated by Bambu on the standard benchmark suite MachSuite proposed in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brandon Reagen, Robert Adolf, Sophia Yakun Shao, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks. &#8220;MachSuite: Benchmarks for Accelerator Design and Customized Architectures.&#8221; 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A comparison with a standard commercial HLS tool is provided when possible.<\/p>\n<h4>Setup<\/h4>\n<p>&#8211; Target hardware: AMD\/Xilinx Virtex7 FPGA.<br \/>\n&#8211; Target frequency: 200 MHz.<br \/>\n&#8211; Source code for the benchmarks is available in <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ferrandi\/PandA-bambu\/tree\/main\/examples\/MachSuite\">examples\/MachSuite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Summary<\/h4>\n<h5>Speedup over commercial HLS tool for a set of different Bambu configurations across all benchmarks.<\/h5>\n<p><em>Latency is measured in ns (clock cycles * achieved period post-implementation). &gt; 1 is better.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/panda.deib.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/boxplot_machsuite_timing.png\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>Area consumption over commercial HLS tool for a set of different Bambu configurations across all benchmarks.<\/h5>\n<p><em>Area is measured in Equivalent LUTs (BRAMs * 40 + DRAMs * 40 + DSPs * 40 + Registers * 0.5 + LUTs). &lt; 1 is better.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/panda.deib.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/boxplot_machsuite_area.png\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Trade-offs<\/h4>\n<p>We highlight the effect of selecting different Bambu configuration options, which can steer Bambu towards different trade-offs between performance and area.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pareto plots (Latency vs. Area) for selected benchmarks. Points marked with x are dominated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/panda.deib.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/pareto_machsuite_fft_strided.png\" width=\"400px\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/panda.deib.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/pareto_machsuite_gemm_blocked.png\" width=\"400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/panda.deib.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/pareto_machsuite_md_grid.png\" width=\"400px\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/panda.deib.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/pareto_machsuite_viterbi.png\" width=\"400px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Detailed Results<\/h4>\n<p>Post-p&amp;r timing and area metrics for each benchmark and each selected configuration are available in a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/panda.deib.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/machsuite.txt\">table<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction We evaluate accelerators generated by Bambu on the standard benchmark suite MachSuite proposed in: Brandon Reagen, Robert Adolf, Sophia Yakun Shao, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks. &#8220;MachSuite: Benchmarks for Accelerator Design and Customized Architectures.&#8221; 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization. A comparison with a standard commercial HLS tool is provided when possible. Setup &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/panda.deib.polimi.it\/?page_id=1144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MachSuite results<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101162,"featured_media":0,"parent":1099,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MachSuite results - panda.deib.polimi.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/panda.deib.polimi.it\/?page_id=1144\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MachSuite results - panda.deib.polimi.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Introduction We evaluate accelerators generated by Bambu on the standard benchmark suite MachSuite proposed in: Brandon Reagen, Robert Adolf, Sophia Yakun Shao, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks. &#8220;MachSuite: Benchmarks for Accelerator Design and Customized Architectures.&#8221; 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization. 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