Embench IOT 2.0 and DSP 1.0: Modern Embedded Computing Benchmarks

This article introduces two modern benchmarks, Embench IOT 2.0 and DSP 1.0. Embench 1.0 was originally inspired by the drawbacks of the two popular embedded benchmarks, CoreMark and Dhrystone. We give examples of important questions that the more precise new benchmarks can answer that the older ones cannot.