Stop Obsessing Over AXI Protocol Features. This Is What Actually Kills Your Chip.
The AXI protocol’s flexibility is a trap for engineers who focus on features instead of verification. The real difference between a chip that ships and one that fails silently isn’t your knowledge of the spec β it’s whether you leveraged open-source verification infrastructure like PULP Platform’s AXI repository. The spec tells you what’s legal. The verification infrastructure tells you what actually works.