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CSR Programming Model, Privilege Visibility, and Timer Facilities: Silicon PPA Impact
Silicon PPA Impact for CSR Programming Model, Privilege Visibility, and Timer Facilities.
Silicon PPA impact
Silicon PPA Impact for CSR Programming Model, Privilege Visibility, and Timer Facilities is anchored on CSR read/write hazard rate, timer interrupt accuracy (ns error), and software context-switch overhead attributable to CSR traffic.. Convert observations into mechanism-backed decisions with explicit ownership.
Frequency gains that increase bubbles may lose net throughput.
Area growth from extension logic must justify workload value.
Power and thermal stability are release gates, not secondary metrics.
PPA trend view
diagram
BEFORE / AFTER TREND - CSR Programming Model, Privilege Visibility, and Timer Facilities
CSR read/write hazard rate, timer interrupt accuracy (ns error), and software context-switch overhead attributable to CSR traffic.
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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.