Evaluate the collective function of references cited together in a given text segment.
Classify their combined role into one of the following categories: 'method', 'background', or 'result'.

Text:Starting from the reference C-based implementation provided in the CORTEXSUITE, a recently-released suite of benchmarks designed to challenge current hardware systems [26], we completed a design specification in synthesizable SystemC that is parametric with respect to the PLM size.
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