diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c42bfc4dd..773af3bc6 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ __pycache__/
 addins
 addins/riscv-arch-test/Makefile.include
 addins/riscv-tests/target
+addins/coremark/work/*
+addins/embench/bd_speed/*
+addins/embench/bd_size/*
+benchmarks/embench/Wally*.json
 
 #vsim work files to ignore
 transcript
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 1fb5889ea..132c7a9f7 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 	url = https://github.com/google/riscv-dv
 [submodule "addins/embench-iot"]
 	path = addins/embench-iot
-	url = https://github.com/DTowersM/embench-iot
+	url = https://github.com/embench/embench-iot
 [submodule "addins/coremark"]
 	path = addins/coremark
 	url = https://github.com/eembc/coremark
diff --git a/benchmarks/graphGen.py b/benchmarks/graphGen.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..7c16a4577
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmarks/graphGen.py
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import json
+import plotly.graph_objects as go
+
+coremarkData = {}
+embenchData = {}
+debug = True
+
+def loadCoremark():
+    """loads the coremark data dictionary"""
+    coremarkPath = "riscv-coremark/work/coremark.sim.log"
+    
+    keywordlist = ["CoreMark 1.0", "CoreMark Size", "MTIME", "MINSTRET", "Branches Miss Predictions", "BTB Misses"]
+    for keyword in keywordlist:
+        bashInst = "cat " + coremarkPath + " | grep \"" + keyword +  "\" | cut -d \':\' -f 2 | cut -d \" \" -f 2 | tail -1"
+        result = subprocess.run(bashInst, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
+        if (debug): print(result)
+        coremarkData[keyword] = int(result.stdout)
+    if (debug): print(coremarkData)
+    return coremarkData
+
+def loadEmbench():
+    """loads the embench data dictionary"""
+    embenchPath = "embench/wallySpeed.json"
+    f = open(embenchPath)
+    embenchData = json.load(f)
+    if (debug): print(embenchData)
+    return embenchData
+
+def graphEmbench(embenchData):
+    ydata = list(embenchData["speed results"]["detailed speed results"].keys()) + ["speed geometric mean","speed geometric sd","speed geometric range"]
+    xdata = list(embenchData["speed results"]["detailed speed results"].values()) + [embenchData["speed results"]["speed geometric mean"],embenchData["speed results"]["speed geometric sd"],embenchData["speed results"]["speed geometric range"]]
+    fig = go.Figure(go.Bar(
+            y=ydata,
+            x=xdata,
+            orientation='h'))
+
+    fig.show()
+
+
+def main():
+    coremarkData = loadCoremark()
+    embenchData = loadEmbench()
+    graphEmbench(embenchData)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    sys.exit(main())
+
+# x = 
+# y = 
+
+# df = px.data.tips()
+# fig = px.bar(df, x="total_bill", y="day", orientation='h')
+# fig.show()
+# import plotly.express as px
+
+
+# result = sp.run(['ls', '-l'], stdout=sp.PIPE)
+# result.stdout
+
+# fig = go.Figure( go.Bar(
+#                 x=[],
+#                 y=[],
+#                 color="species",
+#                 facet_col="species", 
+#                 title="Using update_traces() With Plotly Express Figures"),
+#                 orientation='h')
+
+# fig.show()
+
+#
+# "ls -Art ../addins/embench-iot/logs/*speed* | tail -n 1 " # gets most recent embench speed log
+# "ls -Art ../addins/embench-iot/logs/*size* | tail -n 1 " # gets most recent embench speed log
+
+## get coremark score
+
+# cat coremarkPath | grep "CoreMark 1.0" | cut -d ':' -f 2 | cut -d " " -f 2
+# cat coremarkPath | grep "MTIME" | cut -d ':' -f 2 | cut -d " " -f 2 | tail -1
+# cat coremarkPath | grep "MINSTRET" | cut -d ':' -f 2 | cut -d " " -f 2 | tail -1
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diff --git a/benchmarks/riscv-coremark/.gitignore b/benchmarks/riscv-coremark/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0f2251abe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmarks/riscv-coremark/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+coremark.riscv
+coremark.bare.riscv
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/benchmarks/riscv-coremark/.gitmodules b/benchmarks/riscv-coremark/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..938028cb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmarks/riscv-coremark/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "coremark"]
+	path = coremark
+	url = https://github.com/eembc/coremark