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Post-Silicon Debug for RISC-V Platforms: Silicon PPA Impact

Silicon PPA Impact for Post-Silicon Debug for RISC-V Platforms.

Silicon PPA impact

Silicon PPA Impact for Post-Silicon Debug for RISC-V Platforms is anchored on First-failure isolation time, reproducibility rate of silicon issues, and escaped-defect trend after debug closure.. 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 - Post-Silicon Debug for RISC-V Platforms

First-failure isolation time, reproducibility rate of silicon issues, and escaped-defect trend after debug closure.
  ^
  |                           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.