Hardware interview practice
Choose complete data-path performance metrics
A PCIe/DDR/Ethernet data path meets average throughput at one packet size, but users still report stalls. Which metric set gives the strongest verification evidence?
Choose one
Answer choices
- A. Throughput, latency distribution, queue occupancy, credits/backpressure, fairness, head-of-line blocking, and loss/errors across traffic mixes.
- B. Peak throughput and average latency at one packet size.
- C. Code coverage and maximum clock frequency with no traffic.
- D. Only the number of packets accepted during warm-up.