High Level Synthesis Benchmarks
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This set of benchmarks was prepared for the Fourth International
Workshop on High-Level Synthesis, co-sponsored by ACM/SIGDA and
IEEE/DATC with the cooperation of IEEE/CANDE and IFIP/WG10.2,and held
October 15-18, 1989, in Kennebunkport, Maine, USA.  The benchmarks were
collected by Bruce Irwin and Bob Mayo (mayo@decwrl.dec.com) of the
University of Wisconsin.


		How To Obtain Benchmark Data

The High Level Synthesis benchmark data can be obtained from CBL in one
of two ways: by ftp over Internet or by tape.

1.0 Internet FTP

If you have access to an Internet connection you may establish an ftp
connection to host "mcnc.mcnc.org" and copy the files using the "get"
command. The login name is "anonymous" and the password is any string
(we ask that you use your name or home login id).  The files are in the
"/pub/benchmark/Benchmark_dirs/HLSynth89" directory.

The command sequence to establish a connection to the host machine is:

	ftp mcnc.mcnc.org
	anonymous 	(in response to the "Name" prompt)
	(your id) 	(in response to the "password" prompt)


If you have a UNIX(tm) machine on the Internet, check to see if you
have the "uncompress" command available. Shipping the benchmarks over
in compressed form is much faster than in plaintext. If you have
uncompress, then do

	cd pub/benchmark/Benchmark_dirs/HLSynth89
	binary
	get HLSynth89.tar.Z
	bye

on your local machine, uncompress the file with the command

	uncompress HLSynth89.tar.Z

un-tar the file with the command

	tar -xvf HLSynth89.tar


If you do not have the "tar" or "compress" utilities available, you may
have to copy the files explicitly.

	cd pub/benchmark/Benchmark_dirs/HLSynth89
	get HLSynth89.readme
	get HLSynth89.list
	cd DATA
	mget *
	cd DOCUMENTATION
	mget *
	bye


2.0 Benchmarks on Tape

We are prepared to send you a tape in containing the benchmark
directory in TAR format.
Contact benchmarks@cbl.ncsu.edu for details.
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* For further information about benchmarks and how to retrieve them,
* please contact the Benchmark Administrator by email at
* "benchmarks@cbl.ncsu.edu".
 
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