Implements the user's board architecture: config flash wired
exclusively to the FPGA, host (ESP32) reaches it only through the
FPGA. flash_spi_master.v is a plain byte-wide SPI master using
STARTUPE2 to reclaim CCLK after configuration (the real, Xilinx-
documented "indirect SPI flash programming" technique, UG470 p94-96).
New opcode 0x40 FLASH_XFER in spi_host_bridge_v3.v relays bytes
byte-for-byte between host and the physical flash bus -- the host
decides the exact SPI NOR command sequence (verified against the real
W25Q32JV datasheet), this RTL knows nothing about flash semantics.
Found and fixed two real bugs during verification: a byte-assembly
off-by-one in flash_spi_master.v, and a genuine protocol-latency bug
in the FLASH_XFER opcode's response timing (needed 2 trailing margin
bytes, not 1 -- the internal flash transfer doesn't start until the
triggering byte finishes, so 1 byte of margin isn't enough). 39/39
tests pass end to end (host SPI -> bridge -> flash_spi_master ->
behavioral flash model).
Wired into n2_system_ddr3_top.v with real pin constraints (flash_mosi
=K17/flash_miso=K18/flash_cs_n=L13, the same pins reserved-but-unused
in EXP-0075) and BITSTREAM.CONFIG.PERSIST=FALSE made explicit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MUG92aM9m68TRc4rG55BcC
Found a real, previously-masked bug in spi_host_bridge_v3.v's physical
layer (inherited unchanged from V1/V2): the bit_count==0 MISO bypass
corrupts the last bit of any multi-byte response whose value happens
to end in a 1 -- every prior test's response data coincidentally
ended in 0, hiding it until the new DEVICE_ID register (0x...01)
exposed it via a real bit-exact mismatch. Fixed by removing the
bypass (verified unnecessary for this protocol's actual usage).
Added REG_WRITE/REG_READ opcodes (0x30/0x31) and a register file
(DEVICE_ID/CONTROL/STATUS/N_SLOTS) for general device control beyond
job submission, per explicit user request. Full regression: 38/38
PASS, including new cases specifically targeting the bit-corruption
bug for both REG_READ and READ_MEM.
New hardware/v3/constraints/n2_system_ddr3_top.xdc: reserves the
FPGA's dedicated Master-SPI config-flash pins (found colliding with
auto-placed design ports in the real routed checkpoint) and assigns
the neural-processor management SPI to real, verified-free, edge-
adjacent pins on xc7a100tcsg324-2.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MUG92aM9m68TRc4rG55BcC
Forked from V2's spi_host_bridge.v after finding two real protocol
mismatches: WRITE_JOB carried dependency-manager fields (required/
producer_ids) that neural_director_packed.v's job_in_* port doesn't
have (no dependency manager exists in V3 -- dropped, disclosed, not
silently ignored), and WRITE_MEM/READ_MEM assumed a word-granularity
host-arb port V3 never had (now wired through host_mem_bridge.v,
EXP-0071). Physical SPI layer carried over unchanged.
Verified standalone: 18/18 tests, 0 errors, including a case
exercising the narrower 25-bit MEM_ADDR_WIDTH's own top bit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MUG92aM9m68TRc4rG55BcC
micheleandClaude Sonnet 5