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RISC-V Compliance Testing: Silicon PPA Impact
Silicon PPA Impact for RISC-V Compliance Testing.
Silicon PPA impact
Silicon PPA Impact 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.
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 - 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.