feat(v2): M4 Memory Manager + Prefetch Engine, real V1 PSRAM backend
Implements M4: memory_manager.v (arbitration/buffering/forwarding/ latency hiding/double buffering, §12) + prefetch_engine.v (double-buffered tile fetch, §13), sitting on the REAL, UNMODIFIED V1 PSRAM backend chain (int8_memory_access.v -> memory_interface.v -> psram_controller.v, per §15's explicit mandate not to touch the controller). Verified fully end-to-end with Verilator: real neural_processor (M1) fed entirely by memory_manager, computing against PSRAM-resident X/W tiles (double-buffered prefetch across up to 5 tiles) and writing its result back to PSRAM -- checked via an independent PSRAM read-back, with poison bytes around the operand regions to catch addressing errors. 3/3 jobs pass (1/3/5-tile configurations). Three real RTL bugs found and fixed during integration (full diagnostic trail in errors.log ERR-0006): prefetch_engine had no single-in-flight-request discipline, letting a queued request corrupt the bank bookkeeping of a fetch already running; the fix's own !pf_busy guard had a one-cycle blind spot (pf_busy lags pf_start by a clock) that needed an explicit !pf_start term; and a state-based mux for the shared backend port was off by one cycle, silently dropping the PSRAM result write entirely. Real synthesis: 0 CHECK problems, 851 LUT4/789 FF/108 CCU2C/0 DSP (expected, no multiplication in this module). Real place&route (via a synthesis-only timing harness, needed for the same TRELLIS_IO pin- budget reason as M2's array): Fmax 165.86 MHz, PASS at 80MHz. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013xXuuRUWZScuo1DeYJxs3v
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@@ -59,3 +59,18 @@ wide) scale as expected with depth. Confirms §14's warning literally:
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"non assumere che buffer piu' grandi siano automaticamente migliori"
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-- here, smaller was not cheaper either, because depth was the wrong
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lever for this specific buffer's cost.
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[2026-09-05] M4 Memory Manager + Prefetch Engine (standalone resource
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count; Fmax via timing harness -- see errors.log ERR-0005)
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| Module | Fmax (POST-P&R) | LUT | FF | DSP | CCU2C |
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|----------------------------------|------------------|-----|-----|-----|-------|
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| memory_manager + prefetch_engine | 165.86 MHz | 851 | 789 | 0 | 108 |
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End-to-end (real PSRAM + real neural_processor, SIMULATED only, no
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system-level P&R yet -- deferred to M7/M9): 3-tile job = 446 cycles,
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1-tile job = 166 cycles, 5-tile job = 728 cycles. ~140-150 cycles/tile,
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dominated by psram_model.v's real ~70ns TAA access latency, not by
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memory_manager's own control overhead (its bank-swap turnaround is
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documented as a fixed +1 cycle/tile in decisions.log DEC-0006, a small
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fraction of the ~140-cycle PSRAM-dominated total).
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