Hierarchical Embedded Logic Analyzer for Accurate Root-Cause Analysis
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Post-silicon debugging process is aimed at locating errors not detected during the process of pre-silicon verification. Although in the post-silicon validation engineers can exploit the high speed of hardware prototype to exercise huge amount of test vectors, low level of real-time observability and controllability of signals inside the prototype is a big issue. Various Design for Debug (DFD) techniques aim to improve the observability of signals and expedite the root cause analysis of errors. Typical practical DFD approaches are based on the Embedded Logic Analysis (ELA), using a trigger unit that can effectively control when to acquire the debug data. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical trigger generator that builds a trigger unit. Additionally, it provides resourceful and compact trace information for root cause analysis. Major advantages over traditional trigger units are: 1) by keeping the trace of interactions that leads to the failure, it facilitates the process of failure localization and root-cause analysis 2) it can be tuned for the specific location of a design to avoid the huge cost related to interfacing with trace signals 3) it can get parameterized to generate several units that can be placed inside the limited area in multiple debug rounds using a time-multiplex fashion.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it