Cirque du CI2

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Across
  1. 4. Barnum had three under canvas; an accelerator SoC might have one shuttling flits between compute tiles.
  2. 6. Peg hammered deep into the fairgrounds or a sudden di/dt surge threatening the core power rail.
  3. 8. Houdini’s claim to fame or a packaging engineer’s plan for fleeing a crowded BGA bump array.
  4. 9. A sideshow mystic with a crystal ball who in DV always knows the indisputable golden answer.
Down
  1. 1. Performer with six flaming clubs aloft or a technical lead keeping multiple tapeouts and ECOs from dropping.
  2. 2. Spinning Midway ride of painted steeds that in hardware arbitration guarantees no requester starves.
  3. 3. Precarious act high above the sawdust — familiar to anyone signing off a critical path at 0.1 picoseconds.
  4. 5. A daring leap into the void between moving bars — familiar to anyone synchronizing data across clock domains.
  5. 6. Dangerous sag on a tightrope yet pure joy on a timing signoff report.
  6. 7. A magician's dramatic card flourish that in physical design drags down a logic driver with capacitive load.