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Five-Stage Pipeline Partitioning and Timing Contracts: Reports and Metrics
Reports and Metrics for Five-Stage Pipeline Partitioning and Timing Contracts.
Reports and metrics
Reports and Metrics for Five-Stage Pipeline Partitioning and Timing Contracts is anchored on Post-layout Fmax versus stage slack spread, plus bubble rate introduced by stage-boundary timing fixes.. Convert observations into mechanism-backed decisions with explicit ownership.
Before/after trend
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BEFORE / AFTER TREND - Five-Stage Pipeline Partitioning and Timing Contracts
Post-layout Fmax versus stage slack spread, plus bubble rate introduced by stage-boundary timing fixes.
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| o target band
| o after fix + reruns
| o
| o baseline (failing)
+--------------------------------------------------> iteration
capture issue isolate mechanism close + monitor
Use this view to confirm the gain is causal and stable across seeds.Root-cause tree
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ROOT CAUSE TREE - Five-Stage Pipeline Partitioning and Timing Contracts
Post-layout Fmax versus stage slack spread, plus bubble rate introduced by stage-boundary timing fixes. regressed
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reproducible on fixed seed?
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no yes
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env/tool drift first failing domain?
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decode execute memory/MMU
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control map bypass/FU TLB/walk/perm
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privilege/CSR side effects checked?
Stop at first confirmed mechanism, then assign explicit owner + fix proof.Track Post-layout Fmax versus stage slack spread, plus bubble rate introduced by stage-boundary timing fixes. on representative workloads, not just microbenchmarks.
Include build/runtime/privilege metadata in report headers.
Pair performance movement with correctness and reliability checks.
Report tail stability, not only mean uplift.