RISC-V Compliance Testing: Pitfalls and Red Flags

Pitfalls and red flags

Pitfalls and Red Flags 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.

• Tuning knobs without proving first failing mechanism.

• Ignoring privilege, trap, and memory-protection side effects.

• Mixing extension profiles across benchmark runs.

• Shipping on one benchmark uplift without stress replay.