The readiness review is where the chip asks permission to leave. Every owner brings evidence, the integrator brings the manifest, the dashboard and the waiver table, and the room decides go or no-go by rules written before anyone entered. Run well, it takes an hour and confirms what the scripts already said. Run badly, it relitigates three months of waivers from slides. This topic scripts the good version on NanoSoC: who brings what, what the decision rule is, and which last-week failures to expect. Its one job is the meeting and its decision; what a late change costs after a go is the next topic.

Suggested order: top to bottom. Evidence first, because the decision rule only works on real inputs; then the rule; then the surprises that test both. The verification sign-off board this mirrors is The Sign-Off Board, and the review to attend first is The Tape-Out Review.