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 # benchmark_suite_IREU
 A benchmark suite for memristive and memcapacitive crossbar computing systems
 
-## overview
-The memristive computing field lacks standardized benchmarks that control for workload characteristics, expose
-device-type differences, and report results comparable to conventional CMOS hardware. This project designs,
-implements, and releases a benchmark suite targeting memristive and memcapacitive crossbar architectures on
-CMOS substrates.
+## Research question
+How does a chosen device subcircuit affect the same computing system? 
+
+The memristive computing field lacks standardized benchmarks that control for 
+workload characteristics, expose device-type differences, and report results 
+comparable to conventional CMOS hardware. This project designs, implements, and 
+releases a benchmark suite targeting memristive and memcapacitive crossbar 
+architectures on CMOS substrates.
+
+## abstract
+MemDevice Benchmark is a benchmarking framework for simulated memristor crossbar's 
+using reservoir computing tasks as standardized workloads with the goal of revealing 
+unique device model effects. The framework evaluates memristor devices under the 
+same circuit, network, and workload characteristics. In the proposed architecture 
+the SPICE crossbar is implemented as the readout layer for a reservoir computer.
+Ridge regressiong training is done on a software reservoir, training the software 
+weights. An input series is given to the reservoir, the resulting temporal states 
+are  converted into voltage signals applied to the crossbar rows. The trained readout 
+weights are converted into equivalent resistances to serve as the initial device 
+values. The crossbar columns are read and mapped back to human readable data that 
+prove task prediciton capability.
+
+Because the reservoir, crossbar, training procedure and benchmark tasks remain fixed, 
+different SPICE device models can be hot swapped and benchmarked in one continous 
+process, making fair comparisons possible and observing how device model choice 
+affects the same computing system
+
+## Setup
+**Download Spires:**   
+git clone https://github.com/txmastin/spires.git   
+cd spires   
+make   
+
+**Download plplot:**   
+git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/plplot/plplot plplot.git   
+cd plplot.git   
+mkdir build   
+cd build   
+make   
+sudo make install   
+
+**Other dependencies may be required for the listed libraries**
+
+**from the projects root directory (~/MemDevice_Benchmark/)**    
+make run   
+
+##