docs: complete architecture analysis - DDR3 bandwidth is the real ceiling, not DSP count (EXP-0080)
Before building N=4/8/16 core scaling, did the requested full analysis. Real finding: using measured DDR3 throughput (1.24 GB/s, from the actual EXP-0079 JEDEC trace) against calculated compute-side need (4.96 GB/s for one core at peak DSP throughput, given the current activation memory layout's 2x byte overhead), the system is memory-bandwidth-bound already at N=1/N=2, not DSP-bound (only 6.67% DSP used). Scaling core count today would show no real throughput gain. docs/ARCHITECTURE_ANALYSIS.md: full module review + ranked interventions -- result-writeback engine (blocker), denser activation packing (highest-leverage bandwidth fix), then the user's own proposed DDRManager/orchestrator-prefetch idea (design-sketched, grounded in neural_director_packed.v's existing job queue, explicitly scoped as complementary to denser packing, not a substitute for it), THEN N-scaling with real per-N P&R signoff. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MUG92aM9m68TRc4rG55BcC
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timing number, and memory-layout convention needed for the physical board
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and for host (ESP32) firmware. Keep it in sync with reality — if a pin
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assignment or timing number changes, update this file in the same commit.
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- `docs/ARCHITECTURE_ANALYSIS.md` — real, measured bottleneck analysis
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(DDR3 bandwidth is the real ceiling, not DSP count — see it before
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proposing to scale core count) and ranked recommended interventions.
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Update it whenever a recommendation from it gets built or a new real
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bottleneck is found.
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- `hardware/v2/logs/experiments.log` — the real project history, one
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`EXP-NNNN` entry per real experiment/change (context/method/result/
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decision/next_action). Read the tail before starting new work; append a
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