Use these drills after completing all topics in IP Integration & Handoff. Answer with baseline, boundary, owner, metric, artifact, and regression scope.
[INT][SOC][IP-INTEGRATION]
Q: What is the minimum IP handoff quality bar?
A:
Versioned RTL/netlist, constraints, abstracts, verification status, and known limitations with owner signoff.
FOLLOW-UP TRAP: Shipping only RTL and patching collateral later.[INT][SOC][IP-INTEGRATION]
Q: How does manifest locking reduce integration churn?
A:
It prevents silent version skew so every debug outcome is tied to reproducible inputs.
FOLLOW-UP TRAP: Using latest-of-everything in nightly builds.[INT][SOC][IP-INTEGRATION]
Q: When should bring-up issues escalate beyond block owners?
A:
When symptoms cross owner boundaries or baseline drift blocks deterministic root-cause isolation.
FOLLOW-UP TRAP: Keeping cross-domain bugs siloed in one team.BASELINE -> OWNER -> CONTRACT -> METRIC -> FIX -> REGRESSIONIP HANDOFF PIPELINE
IP package -> baseline lock -> integration build -> bring-upState baseline manifest and owner with every closure metric.
Run cross-domain regression after every top-level fix.
Comparing results across different manifests.
Unowned issues slipping through review cycles.
Waiving risks without expiry and validation plan.