The Benchmark Archives at CBL

There are several generations of benchmark sets at this site.

The first generation started with the ISCAS'85 set that was initially distributed via magnetic tapes, first mailed from BNR, later from MCNC. In the next few years, this set was expanded with benchmark sets from ISCAS'89 and a series of ACM/SIGDA-sponsored workshops. Several grants from ACM/SIGDA also provided the support for mailing of tapes and for maintaining the benchmarks on an MCNC ftp server. By 1995, the benchmark archives were moved to the current web server at NCSU. If you cite benchmarks from the set below, please cite them as "ACM/SIGDA benchmarks", and not as "MCNC benchmarks".

1985--1995 ACM/SIGDA benchmark sets

New generations of benchmark sets have been evolving over the past ten years. Some of the sets from the initial effort can be found here:

benchmark mutants and isomorphs

For a new home page on latest benchmarks sets and their isomorphs, and for up-to-date information about the xBed experimental environment, including results and publications, please visit

benchmarks, results, and the xBed environment

31/12/2007 ... Franc Brglez (brglez ... ncsu.edu)