Low-Power Signoff Criteria: Reports and Metrics

Reports and metrics

Reports and Metrics for Low-Power Signoff Criteria is anchored on illegal transition rate, corruption incidence, and deterministic replay quality under low-power scenarios. Convert observations into mechanism-backed and owner-bound actions.

A useful report explains why behavior moved, not only that behavior moved.

Evidence matrix

EVIDENCE MATRIX - Low-Power Signoff Criteria

+-----------------------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------------------+
| Evidence                    | Tells you                      | Does not prove                 | Next action               |
+-----------------------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------------------+
| transition timeline traces  | first failing LP phase         | complete root-cause ownership  | correlate with intent map |
| UPF-aware assertion logs    | contract violations by phase   | silicon product impact         | map to scenario severity  |
| corruption/X classification | actionable vs noisy failures   | legal transition completeness  | replay key mode corners   |
| save/restore snapshots      | state integrity movement       | isolation correctness          | pair with crossing checks |
| before-after regressions    | mitigation movement quality    | long-tail stability            | run full matrix           |
+-----------------------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------------------+

• Track illegal transition rate, corruption incidence, and deterministic replay quality under low-power scenarios on representative low-power scenarios.

• Include branch, seed, mode, and configuration metadata in every report.

• Correlate observed symptoms with phase and boundary assumptions.

• Call out contradictory evidence explicitly.

Low-power verification deep dive

Signoff confidence comes from triage discipline, reproducible proof, and explicit residual-risk decisions.

Concept diagram

LPV SIGNOFF LADDER

reproduce -> classify -> isolate boundary -> bounded fix -> replay -> signoff decision

Metric graph

SIGNOFF CONFIDENCE

open ambiguous failures  ██████
reproducible closures    ███████
residual-risk unknowns   ███

Metrics and artifacts to collect

• X-prop triage classification report

• bug root-cause closure packet

• regression stability and recurrence trend

• signoff checklist completion matrix

Mini case study

A signoff block cleared after the team replaced broad waivers with boundary-specific evidence and replay criteria.

Debug branches

• Classify X behavior before broad waiving.

• Capture one definitive artifact packet per closure claim.

• Define residual risk and rollback path at signoff.

Senior review question

Ask: what exact low-power transition boundary failed first, and which artifact proves the closure claim reproducibly?

Key takeaways

• Tie each LPV claim to a concrete transition boundary and one proving artifact.

• Prefer minimal reversible fixes with explicit owner and rollback criteria.

Common pitfalls

• Treating power-aware failures as random before boundary classification.

• Waiving X-prop failures before proving impact and root cause.

• Declaring closure without deterministic replay across key modes.

Report interpretation

Read metric movement with phase and boundary context.

A report is actionable only when it isolates first failing transition boundary.