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Read-only first: how an evaluation runs.

Fleet operators are right to be careful about anything that touches a production card. Here is what a Fluid Silicon rollout looks like, step by step, and why every step is one you choose.

Four steps, all opt-in

  1. Evaluate

    A sample of your cards in a staging environment. Every LUT and carry block is measured at speed, and you get a per-card timing and variation report. No operating point changes.

    Read-only · staging

  2. Observe

    Monitoring and aging models go to production. You see healthy, watch and action counts, a time-to-threshold per card, and alerts on thresholds you set. Still nothing changes on a card.

    Read-only · production

  3. Optimize

    Voltage and frequency tuning is turned on by policy, in maintenance windows you schedule. Each change is handshake-gated and measured again within a second.

    Opt-in · scheduled · handshake-gated

  4. Repair

    Degrading resources are swapped for healthy ones through your change process, and the repaired card is measured again.

    Opt-in · scheduled · handshake-gated

You can stay at any step as long as you want. Many fleets get what they need from the first two.

What each step needs from your team

  • Evaluate: a handful of cards, a staging slot and someone who knows the design. The resource reservation for the health layer is planned together here.
  • Observe: a destination for telemetry (one vendor-neutral schema fits the monitoring you already run) and your alert thresholds.
  • Optimize: a policy: which cards, which windows, which coordination (per device, per server or fleet-wide), and who approves.
  • Repair: a place in your change process for a scheduled, approved action.

What never changes

Your design

Your logic, routing and I/O stay as you built them. The health layer occupies a small, fixed region beside them: under 1% of LUTs and 5% of flip-flops on a production shell.

Your access model

No JTAG port has to be exposed on production systems. Nothing is written into your design's logic.

Your availability

Your design keeps computing for the whole measurement. A full sweep takes about a second.

Your control

Read-only by default. Every action beyond that is opt-in, scheduled and handshake-gated.

What we keep back

Sensor architecture, deployment mechanics and calibration methods are shared with evaluation partners under NDA. An NDA is available on request. Ask for a technical session.

Measure a device at speed, live.

A 30-minute session: in-system slack measurements on a supported AMD or Altera device, and what an evaluation on your boards involves.