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micheleandClaude Sonnet 5 eb0b0f9170 docs: PRE-PCB VERIFICATION FREEZE report + config flash freeze
Adds hardware/v2/docs/PRE_PCB_VERIFICATION.md as the single
authoritative pre-schematic verification record: RTL/ERR-0025/
regression re-verification, clock/reset, synthesis/P&R re-audit,
setup/hold timing status, the real SDRAM datasheet-parameter audit
table (Alliance Memory AS4C4M16SA-6TIN Table 17), SPI host bridge
protocol documentation, FPGA power/pinout tables, first-board bring-up
and benchmark status, and cross-domain consistency audit.

Freezes the FPGA configuration flash: Winbond W25Q32JVSSIQ (32Mbit,
SOIC-8, 2.7-3.6V, standard SPI, ECP5 Master-SPI-boot compatible) --
this was the one section-11 item the governing mandate required not
be left OPEN.

Marks CHIP_READINESS.md/OPEN_ITEMS.md/PINOUT.md/CLOCK_ARCHITECTURE.md/
POWER_ARCHITECTURE.md/SCHEMATIC_READINESS.md as superseded (they
predate the SPI host bridge, PLL, and this session's SDRAM datasheet
audit) with pointers to the new consolidated document, rather than
rewriting each individually.

Updates the V2 LaTeX datasheet's status/roadmap chapter to reflect the
SDRAM datasheet audit and configuration-flash decisions, rebuilds the
PDF (clean compile, 16 pages).

Classification: PRE-PCB VERIFIED. Schematic and PCB implementation
remain user-owned and not started.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013xXuuRUWZScuo1DeYJxs3v
2026-09-06 18:32:40 +02:00
micheleandClaude Sonnet 5 d6376e8f2a V2 final synthesis/P&R sign-off + LaTeX datasheet port (NOT SILICON READY)
Real synthesis and place-and-route of the actual final board-level
top (fpga_neural_v2_top.v -- SPI bridge, real EHXPLLL, reset_sync,
compute+memory core), against a real, fully ball-assigned LPF. Also
ports the V2 datasheet to LaTeX using V1's own preamble/macros/
typography, and records a real (non-ESP32, honestly labeled) software
reference comparison.

Synthesis (Yosys, real run): 0 CHECK-pass problems, 38 unique warnings
(43 total), all matching this project's own previously-reviewed benign
set (neural_processor.v's known genvar multi-driver artifact, small-
array-to-register unrolling, the real SDRAM DQ tristate bus) -- no new
warnings from the SPI bridge, PLL, or reset synchronizer.
TRELLIS_FF=6322, TRELLIS_COMB=7084, MULT18X18D=32, EHXPLLL=1 (real PLL
confirmed present), DP16KD=0 (all small SRAMs -> distributed RAM).

Place-and-route (nextpnr-ecp5, real runs, 8 seeds, new
v2_board_top.lpf with all 44 top-level signals ball-assigned from the
official Lattice pinout CSV -- no placeholders): 8/8 PASS at 64MHz.
Worst 68.51MHz (seed 4), best 74.17MHz (seed 7), mean 71.16MHz. Zero
unrouted nets, zero placement/routing errors, TRELLIS_IO=44/245 (17%).
Critical path alternates between dependency_manager's own priority
encoder and sdram_unified_backend's own weight-cache hit-index logic,
matching this project's own prior documented timing investigations --
not a new defect.

New: hardware/v2/constraints/v2_board_top.lpf (final LPF, supersedes
v2_unified.lpf for the board-level top), hardware/v2/reports/
step_final_{synthesis,pnr_worst_seed4,timing}.* (raw evidence),
hardware/v2/docs/DatasheetLatex/ (V2 datasheet, real LaTeX build,
16 pages, visually inspected, ported from hardware/v1/docs/
DatasheetLatex/'s own preamble and macros).

Real, honestly-labeled software baseline: the D-Stress arithmetic
(256 neurons x 128 INT8 MACs) compiled and run on THIS development
machine (Apple M4, arm64, NOT an embedded target, NOT ESP32) --
1.28us/inference, included in the datasheet with an explicit
disclosure that no physical ESP32 hardware was available for a real
embedded-target comparison.

Remaining, disclosed, NOT-yet-closed items (this commit does NOT
claim silicon readiness): real KiCad schematic + ERC, PCB layout,
sourced BOM, real power current-budget estimate, SDRAM-datasheet-
parameter cross-check, configuration-flash selection, and (necessarily)
physical fabrication/bring-up. See hardware/v2/docs/DatasheetLatex/
chapters/08-status-roadmap.tex for the complete, itemized checklist.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013xXuuRUWZScuo1DeYJxs3v
2026-09-06 17:50:53 +02:00