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What On-Chip Monitors Can Prove: A Practical Silicon Lifecycle Programme
Silicon lifecycle management, or SLM, is often sold as a simple package: sensors on the chip, a dashboard in the cloud, and a promise that failures will be seen before they happen. Some of that is established engineering, and IBM was steering voltage from on-chip timing monitors in a POWER7 prototype server by 2011. Some of it is still a hope. This post treats SLM as a method. It walks through what a working programme contains from design to f…