Post-Silicon Validation of the IBM POWER8 Processor
Amir Nahir, Manoj Dusanapudi, Shakti Kapoor, Kevin Reick, Wolfgang Roesner, Klaus-Dieter Schubert, Keith Sharp, Greg Wetli · 2014
The post-silicon validation phase in a processor's design life cycle is geared towards finding all remaining bugs in the system. It is, in fact, our last opportunity to find functional and electrical bugs in the design before shipping it to customers.