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RISC-V Compliance Testing: Design Space

Design Space for RISC-V Compliance Testing.

Design space

Design Space for RISC-V Compliance Testing is anchored on Compliance pass rate across implemented ISA profiles and extension-specific corner-case suites.. Convert observations into mechanism-backed decisions with explicit ownership.

  • Trade latency and throughput against power and area.

  • Prefer architecture options with clear software contract impact.

  • Quantify extension-profile cost before enabling by default.

  • Keep bring-up and validation ownership explicit.

Trend lens

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BEFORE / AFTER TREND - RISC-V Compliance Testing

Compliance pass rate across implemented ISA profiles and extension-specific corner-case suites.
  ^
  |                           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.