High Level Synthesis Benchmark Suite
Benchmark Suite
I suggest using the MediaBench
applications as benchmarks (this is what I have used in my work).
However, here are some other benchmarks that I used.
A good list
of benchmarks for embedded system design and synthesis is
available here
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