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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.